Nine To Noon for Friday 16 April 2021

 

 

09:05 Food growing land being eaten up: report

A new report paints a stark picture of the environment under relentless pressure with urban sprawl and dariy intensification swallowing up productive food growing land. The Environment Ministry and Stats NZ report documents land use in recent decades.  It is the latest in a series of environmental reports based on themes such as air, marine, freshwater, and climate. The report finds the area of highly productive land lost to housing increased by 54 percent between 2002 and 2019.  In the past 25 years land use has intensified - more livestock, fertilisers and irrigation - although overall there are actually fewer farms producing more product on less land. Kathryn speaks with MFE Chief Science Advisor Dr Alison Collins,  Associate Professor Amanda Black, of Bio Protection Aotearoa at Lincoln University, who advised MFE and Statistics New Zealand on the report and Mike Chapman, Horticulture New Zealand Chief Executive.

09:20 Calls for national nutrition guidelines for preterm babies

New research on what extremely low birth weight babies need to thrive suggests a need for new national guidelines on the amount of nutrients given in our neonatal units.  Dr Barbara Cormack is specialist neonatal dietician at the University of Auckland's Liggins Institute, author of a recent paper exploring refeeding syndrome in babies with extremely low birth weights. Refeeding syndrome has been observed in people with severe anorexia, and prisoners of war, and can occur when malnourished people don't get the correct balance of nutrients, including phosphates, in normal diets - resulting ultimately in heart failure.

09:45 Asia correspondent Ed White

Tension is flaring again between the US and China on multiple fronts, including economically. And in India, the Covid vaccine is being rolled out just as the infection rates are hitting new highs.

Ed White is a correspondent with the Financial Times based in Seoul.

10:05 Vet, farmer, romance writer Danielle Hawkins

Kathryn meets Waikato vet, farmer, mother, and romance writer Danielle Hawkins. She has four bestselling rural romantic fiction books in print, and her new book Two Shakes of a Lamb's Tail - is a diary of a year in her life. Danielle, husband Jarrod and two children farm 1200 ewes and 400 cattle near Otorohonga, and she works three days a week as a large animal vet. It's an open, honest, funny account her day to day country life from battling drought to removing penile warts in a bull.

10:35 Book review: How Did I Get Here by Ben Brown

Michelle Rahurahu Scott reviews How Did I Get Here by Ben Brown, published by The Cuba Press

10:45 The Reading

11:05 New music with Jeremy Taylor - eras of NZ music

An all NZ selection covering several different eras, and featuring Auckland powerpoppers Voom, Pixie Williams reimagined, and pre-Blam Blam Blam combo The Plague.
 

11:30 Sports commentator Dana Johannsen

Dana talks rugby and netball - including the big news this week with two Pasifika teams, Moana Pasifika and Fijian Drua given the conditional go-ahead for the 2022 Super Rugby season. Also the ANZ Premiership gets underway this weekend, but has  Netball NZ done enough to promote it?.

Dana Johannsen is Stuff's National Correspondent specialising in sport. 

11:45 The week that was with

Comedians Te Radar and Michele A'Court

Music played in this show

Artist:   Joan Shelly
Song: Coming Down For You
Broadcast time: 09:33

Artist:   79.5
Song: My Dream
Broadcast time: 10:05

Artist:   Torch 
Song: M. Ward
Broadcast time 11:45