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Cloud technology could be the most disruptive digital tool for empowering ASEAN's vulnerable communities

...smallholders to tap into the e-commerce market using cloud-powered apps as the country’s growing middle class opts for online shopping over the traditional open-air ‘wet’ market, Purnama Adil Marata, ...

22 Mar 2021

Cloud technology could be the most disruptive digital tool for empowering ASEAN's vulnerable communities

Olivier Tichit, director, sustainable supply chain, Musim Mas

News / Food & Agriculture

The missing link in palm oil sustainability is trust: Musim Mas supply chain chief Olivier Tichit

...Smallholders Hub training session. Image: Musim Mas To scale up our outreach, we developed the Smallholders Hub approach, working with the local government on how to train smallholders in their distr...

1 Dec 2020

The missing link in palm oil sustainability is trust: Musim Mas supply chain chief Olivier Tichit

Workers on an RSPO-certified plantation in Jambi, Indonesia.

News / Policy & Finance

Certification fails to transform the palm oil industry–what next?

...smallholders, or take a “landscape” approach, covering all commodities grown within a particular area. Companies across the palm oil supply chain are also making independent efforts to better map thei...

25 Feb 2021

Certification fails to transform the palm oil industry–what next?

News / Food & Agriculture

Plant-based Bambara milk could launch in Singapore in Q2 of 2021

...smallholders. NamZ currently obtains its Bambara groundnut from two villages in Ghana, West Africa, each with a population of 100 to 200 people. It wants to expand its outreach to 2,000 farmers in Afr...

13 Jan 2021

Plant-based Bambara milk could launch in Singapore in Q2 of 2021

Press Releases / CDP

CDP launches world’s first disclosure framework for banks integrating climate and forest impact

...smallholders. Despite their significance in palm oil and rubber production, a lack of access to credit for smallholder producers is driving behaviours that result in forest loss and increased emission...

25 Feb 2021

CDP launches world’s first disclosure framework for banks integrating climate and forest impact

News / Policy & Finance

Indonesia's palm oil export ban met with condemnation and praise

...smallholders can have a bigger say in determining prices that are currently dominated by big companies. “This move needs to be done so that the state doesn’t always lose from a small number of busines...

27 Apr 2022

Indonesia's palm oil export ban met with condemnation and praise

News / Food & Agriculture

Will the UN food systems summit bring change?

...smallholders, indigenous peoples, youth and women have all been involved in the summit action tracks, generating a greater share of ideas for improving food systems than private sector participants. T...

21 Sep 2021

Will the UN food systems summit bring change?

News / Carbon & Climate

Decline in deforestation in Indonesia’s Leuser Ecosystem

...smallholders in getting certified under sustainability schemes such as the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) and the government’s Indonesian Sustainable Palm Oil (ISPO) program, Rudi said. “Th...

4 Jan 2022

Decline in deforestation in Indonesia’s Leuser Ecosystem

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Vietnam to plant 1 billion trees — but how?

...smallholders. Smallholders are a major aspect of forestry in Vietnam, as they control at least half of the country’s planted forest area, and in rural areas such as the mountains outside Hue, plantati...

24 May 2021

Vietnam to plant 1 billion trees — but how?

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

India needs a fast—and just—transition to meat alternatives

In the HBO documentary the “Weight of the Nation” it was noted that if you go with the flow and eat a typical diet in the United States, you will eventually become obese. As a medical doctor, and a ve...

22 Apr 2022

India needs a fast—and just—transition to meat alternatives

News / Food & Agriculture

Half of rubber trade agrees to new policies to cut deforestation, human rights abuses from supply chains

...smallholders do not bear the burden of switching to sustainable practices. The higher cost of sustainable production has slowed the adoption of better practices in other sectors such as palm oil. Clea...

23 Sep 2020

Half of rubber trade agrees to new policies to cut deforestation, human rights abuses from supply chains

News / Food & Agriculture

Can natural rubber be farmed sustainably in the time of Covid-19?

...smallholders and industrial growers, albeit at a reduced frequency, and pay them for it. Before the pandemic, smallholders delivered their rubber twice a month and were paid within a week of the deliv...

16 Jul 2020

Can natural rubber be farmed sustainably in the time of Covid-19?

News / CSR

‘Mind-boggling’ that female garment makers are not paid a living wage: SukkhaCitta co-founder and CSO Bertram Flesch

Every day, the average consumer is bombarded with marketing and advertising that pushes the newest trends. Statistics point to how apparel sales have risen in recent years, in response to drastically ...

12 May 2023

‘Mind-boggling’ that female garment makers are not paid a living wage: SukkhaCitta co-founder and CSO Bertram Flesch

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Deforestation surge continues amid worsening uncertainty in Myanmar

Carved out of the of the narrow isthmus that connects the Malay Peninsula to the rest of mainland Southeast Asia, Myanmar’s southern Tanintharyi region rises from the Andaman Sea in the west to the fo...

27 Aug 2021

Deforestation surge continues amid worsening uncertainty in Myanmar

News / Food & Agriculture

Coffee farmers in dire straits; large roasters and traders must step up: Report

The largest coffee companies in the world including Nestle, Starbucks, Lavazza and UCC are failing to report transparently on their sustainability commitments and are doing too little to improve the l...

16 Jan 2021

Coffee farmers in dire straits; large roasters and traders must step up: Report

News / Policy & Finance

One in five hectares of palm oil in Indonesia is criminal, report shows

Indonesia, the world’s biggest producer of palm oil, owes a substantial slice of that output to criminal deforestation, according to a new report showing that a fifth of its plantations are illegally ...

12 Nov 2021

One in five hectares of palm oil in Indonesia is criminal, report shows

News / Carbon & Climate

UN report: land degradation now affects half the world’s population and economy

...smallholders, who are paid annual incentives to plant and maintain trees. Since it began in 2009, it has involved nearly 1,000 subsistence farmers, and 20,000 trees have been planted, earning more tha...

4 May 2022

UN report: land degradation now affects half the world’s population and economy

A palm oil mill in Southern Papua, Indonesia

News / Food & Agriculture

Will China produce its own palm oil?

...smallholders can use simple oil pressing equipment designed for peanuts to produce crude palm oil. Zeng says that while China is not ready for large-scale oil palm planting, it can start with small-sc...

9 Feb 2022

Will China produce its own palm oil?

News / Food & Agriculture

Food crisis 2022: the many rethinks needed to feed the world

First went wheat and corn, when Russia invaded Ukraine in February, resulting in beseiged ports and trade embargoes. The two countries exported a quarter of the world’s wheat and a sixth of the world’...

1 Jun 2022

Food crisis 2022: the many rethinks needed to feed the world

Oil palm plantations in Sarawak as seen from a plane.

News / Carbon & Climate

Data-driven platform aims to clear up fog of palm oil traceability

...smallholders, since very few of them have been mapped despite accounting for 40 per cent of all palm oil production. “Despite the many challenges, I’m optimistic palm oil could be the first major defo...

2 Nov 2021

Data-driven platform aims to clear up fog of palm oil traceability

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