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Primary Sector
Colin Jacobs: Carbon farming: seeing the wood for the trees
NZ will fail to meet its climate change commitments without exotic forestry.
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Primary Sector
Colin Jacobs: Time to ditch foreign forestry exemption
The special exemption for foreign buyers to acquire farmland for forest planting is past its use-by date and should be scrapped, argues Colin Jacobs from NZ-owned forestry joint venture firm, Drylandcarbon.