We will continue to take action until both Ravensdown, Ballance and the Government cease the importation of blood phosphate and start the shift to regenerative food systems.
Ravensdown and Ballance are the life source behind the current model of ‘bigger is better’ by supplying the soil depleting, river polluting synthetic fertilisers that fuel it without any tangible alternative. “Currently this industry is New Zealand’s largest polluter to our climate and ecosystem”. We also demand that Jacinda Ardern and her government immediately begin investing in green and regenerative transitions for our agriculture industry. To continue, puts New Zealand’s international reputation into disrepute and is unacceptable. Jacinda Ardern and her government step up and end it for them. If these companies fail to end the importation of ‘blood phosphate’ we demand that Sadly through our actions of allowing the plunder of WS to continue we are failing to live up to this powerful statement. During the horrific events of March our prime minister said the words ‘they are us’. We must look at the effect these companies are having on our international reputation as a clean green nation but also one that prides itself on kindness and integrity. Social and Climate Activist Josie Butler says ‘both Ravensdown and Balance are guilty of receiving stolen goods and are supporting a military occupation for the sake of profit’. These ships travel in secret because the trade of blood phosphate is likely to break international law. Most of the benefits are kept in Moroccan accounts and benefit Moroccan workers, while many Indigenous Saharawi people are forced to live fearfully in refugee camps in Algeria or beyond. The mine has no international recognition as a legitimate business, “nor does any country officially recognise Morocco’s occupation or governance as lawful” in the territory. Both “Ravensdown and Ballance Agri-nutrients make up one third of the total mined rock demand from Moroccan-run Bou Craa Mine: in the occupied territory, and remain the two largest global purchasers followed by China and India.Įarly this month the ship IVS WINDSOR came into Tauranga and Bluff carrying blood phosphate that is illegally mined in the Western Sahara. Morocco extracts rock phosphate from the region, and “New Zealand is the only remaining Western nation” still purchasing the stolen Western Sahara phosphate. About 160,000 Saharawi people have been displaced by the conflict. The Western Sahara region, which is home to half a million indigenous Saharawi people, is under military occupation by Morocco.
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A naturally productive soil contains a perfect balance of inorganic minerals, organic (carbon based) materials, and living organisms, all contained within a physical structure that absorbs and holds water to facilitate natural chemical reactions that feed plants perfectly.Environment and social justice groups are blockading Ravensdown and Ballance fertiliser depots nationwide, demanding an end to the importing of blood phosphate from the occupied Western Sahara region and an immediate transition to regenerative farming …Įnvironment and social justice groups are blockading Ravensdown and Ballance fertiliser depots nationwide, demanding an end to the importing of ‘blood phosphate’ from the occupied Western Sahara region and an immediate transition to regenerative farming practices.Īctivists from Extinction Rebellion, Environmental Justice Ōtepoti, and Free Western Sahara have chained themselves to the gates and blockaded Ravensdown and Balance depots, preventing trucks from entering and stopping the distribution of fertiliser. These organisms process and decompose the inert mineral and organic materials, thereby feeding the plants. and the larger creatures including earthworms. This coupled with the addition of organic particles serve as nourishment for plants by also providing food for bacteria, actinomycetes, yeast, fungi, algae, protozoa’s etc.
Soil that is healthy firstly has a balance of minerals that ensure a favourable environment to house micro-organisms. This takes advantage of the natural processes, which promote good soil, healthy crops, and healthy animals. Modern biological farming is a system that uses nature and science to build the quality of the soil with the understanding that healthy soil will be able to support healthy crops and livestock.
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Before the advent of some of our modern farming practices, farmers knew how to work the land and understood the process of utilising what was on offer due to the natural processes that had been in place for many thousands of years. Biological farming is not a new concept and in some cases generations of farmers have successfully followed this farming method with excellent, sustainable results.
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