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Pendapat / Polisi & Kewangan

Assured mutual dependence

LONDON – During the Cold War, the certainty of “mutually assured destruction” steered the nuclear arms race away from catastrophe: a would-be attacker would face immediate retaliation, inevitably endi...

5 Feb 2014

Assured mutual dependence

Berita / Makanan & Pertanian

New Palm Oil Innovation Group set to address haze issue

...smallholders who take the blame when land is cleared by burning. “ With only a handful of participants, the POIG is a fraction of the size of the RSPO, which includes more than 1,000 members. But t...

1 Jul 2013

New Palm Oil Innovation Group set to address haze issue

Berita / Karbon & Cuaca

RSPO vows probe into members tied to fires

Police in Sumatra’s Riau province now have nine people in custody for setting forest fires that have blanketed the region and neighboring countries in haze, an official said on Tuesday. Brig. Gen. Ron...

27 Jun 2013

RSPO vows probe into members tied to fires

Berita / Makanan & Pertanian

RSPO certification for smallholders

...smallholders in key markets such as Indonesia, Thailand and West Africa. The RSPO had also set aside 300,000 euros to encourage smallholders to certify their plantations, said RSPO secretary-general D...

22 Jun 2012

RSPO certification for smallholders

Berita / Karbon & Cuaca

Farmers seek new income from Fairtrade carbon credits

...smallholders to access the carbon market and receive much-needed finance to mitigate and adapt to climate change, the organisations said. Click here to read the full story.

11 Jan 2013

Farmers seek new income from Fairtrade carbon credits

Pendapat / Makanan & Pertanian

Getting our act together: Sustainability in the Malaysian palm oil industry

...smallholders, such as improved working conditions and a better way of life: Image: Solidaridad It is therefore essential that we make the right decision: that is, forego the misperception that respon...

14 Mar 2014

Getting our act together: Sustainability in the Malaysian palm oil industry

Berita / Makanan & Pertanian

Keresa Plantations grows on RSPO practices, smallholder co-operatives

...smallholders, Kumaran said, “Currently, Keresa Plantations has formed Keresa Smallholders Group Scheme (KSGS). In the master plan, we have planned to attract all smallholders that sending FFB to KMSB ...

3 May 2012

Keresa Plantations grows on RSPO practices, smallholder co-operatives

Pendapat / Karbon & Cuaca

Fire and haze in Riau: Looking beyond the hotspots

...smallholders’, as has also been observed by the World Agroforestry Centre. Clearly, we don’t have the full picture of these investment trends – who is behind them, to what extent the investments are l...

23 Sep 2013

Fire and haze in Riau: Looking beyond the hotspots

Berita / Karbon & Cuaca

Haze hits hazardous levels, Singapore and Indonesia at war of words

The haze in Singapore reached hazardous levels on Thursday afternoon, with the Pollutant Standards Index (PSI) hitting a new record of 371 at 1pm. Visibility was poor in most parts of the island and t...

20 Jun 2013

Haze hits hazardous levels, Singapore and Indonesia at war of words

Pendapat / Makanan & Pertanian

Feeding the world with a mix of science and tradition

The biotech industry has long sought legitimacy by claiming that its genetically modified crop technologies are “feeding the world”. However this relentless focus on increasing food production ignores...

11 Jul 2013

Feeding the world with a mix of science and tradition

Berita / Karbon & Cuaca

Slash-and-burn a way of life on Indonesia's Sumatra

...smallholders suggests that blame is widely spread, even if big companies often buy the palm oil fruit produced on the smaller, private farms. Small farmers clearing their own land, people paid to quie...

5 Jul 2013

Slash-and-burn a way of life on Indonesia's Sumatra

Pendapat / Makanan & Pertanian

Learning from African farmers: How “re-greening” boosts food security; curbs climate change

President Obama is in Africa this week to discuss development, investment, health, and, notably, food security. The trip comes on the heels of the president’s groundbreaking announcement of a U.S. Cli...

19 Jul 2013

Learning from African farmers: How “re-greening” boosts food security; curbs climate change

Berita / Makanan & Pertanian

Green activists sound warning on foreign investments in oil palm estates

Environmental activists have responded with alarm to new data showing Indonesia has the third-biggest area of land in the world given over to foreign control since 2000, warning of dire implications t...

17 Jun 2013

Green activists sound warning on foreign investments in oil palm estates

Berita / Tenaga

Biomass a benefit to rural Cambodia

...smallholders to take advantage of growing biofuel markets.”

25 Sep 2012

Biomass a benefit to rural Cambodia

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World Water Day 2012: Water and food security, two sides of the same coin

The following statement was released by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) for World Water Day 2012. There are many compelling facts and figures about the outlook for food se...

22 Mar 2012

World Water Day 2012: Water and food security, two sides of the same coin

Pendapat / Polisi & Kewangan

Food security must be on the table at Rio+20: Joint opinion article by the heads of FAO, IFAD, WFP and Bioversity

They struggle to make crops grow in the parched earth. They watch in despair as their seedlings and livestock are washed away by flash floods. They stand quietly in the markets and watch others buy fo...

21 Jun 2012

Food security must be on the table at Rio+20: Joint opinion article by the heads of FAO, IFAD, WFP and Bioversity

Berita / Makanan & Pertanian

Cambodia’s largest MFI boosts green farming loans

Cambodian microfinance institution PRASAC says it is bolstering its green credentials by increasing loans for eco-friendly farming methods in the kingdom. Speaking at the the Asia-Pacific Rural and Ag...

1 Jun 2012

Cambodia’s largest MFI boosts green farming loans

Press Releases / Eco-Business

Researchers, farmers and policy makers to collaborate on “massive” climate adaptation challenge for South Asia

Today, recognizing the knowledge gap between the existing evidence of climate change and adaptation on the ground, researchers in Asia launched a novel learning platform to improve agricultural resili...

24 Apr 2012

Researchers, farmers and policy makers to collaborate on “massive” climate adaptation challenge for South Asia

Press Releases / Eco-Business

West Papua’s big palm oil plantations rip-off

An Indonesian oil palm plantation in which Norway has a financial stake paid Papuan tribal landowners as little as US$0.65 per hectare for their forestland, the Environmental Investigation Agency (...

17 May 2012

West Papua’s big palm oil plantations rip-off

Berita / Makanan & Pertanian

Cocoa growers target global market

Viet Nam hopes to become a major supplier of cocoa beans in the world market, with production of 50,000 tonnes of fermented beans by 2020. It plans to have 50,000ha under cocoa cultivation, of which 4...

18 Jun 2012

Cocoa growers target global market

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Temasek-backed agritech firm eFishery suspends co-founders over alleged embezzlement

Just months after talking about going public following a successful US$200 million funding round, Southeast Asia’s first agritech …
Berita / Karbon & Cuaca

Record-breaking Philippines typhoon season was ‘supercharged’ by climate change

This year’s record-breaking typhoon season in the Philippines – which saw six consecutive storm systems hit the country …
Berita / Pegurusan Sisa Kumbahan

The struggle against plastic choking the Mekong

Plastic is now ubiquitous in the Mekong, Asia’s Mother of Rivers, and experts and local people are struggling …
Berita / Karbon & Cuaca

‘Climate villains’ that made headlines in 2024

Exploitation in the mining sector gave rise to the term "blood nickel", while ad agencies were in the …
Berita / Polisi & Kewangan

‘Creeping coup’: In Pakistan, lack of internet access is costing livelihoods

Internet outages and slow speeds lead to economic loss, but campaigners say the government is trying to muffle …
Berita / Karbon & Cuaca

‘Phantom’ rice projects expose voluntary carbon market failings

Amid accusations of fraud, lax auditors and problematic offset certifiers, is the carbon credit market still credible?

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