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Palm oil plantation in Kalimantan, Indonesia

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EU parliament unfazed by trade fight over palm biofuel phase-out

...smallholders who produce palm oil in a sustainable way, Eickhout said. By incentivizing these producers, he said, “we can promote the sustainable versions.” Eickhout said the nuances of the policy wer...

15 Oct 2019

EU parliament unfazed by trade fight over palm biofuel phase-out

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

How farms are feeding the extinction of the world's wildlife

On April 3, the United Kingdom announced a ban on the sale of ivory that is “one of the toughest in the world.” By restricting the ivory trade, the UK joined other countries—including China and the Un...

9 Jul 2018

How farms are feeding the extinction of the world's wildlife

News / Food & Agriculture

Scientists around the world are working to turn agricultural waste into food, packaging and more

When we pick up a piece of fruit, bar of chocolate or package of flour, we don’t often think of the massive amounts of agricultural waste — the stems, leaves, seed pods and more — that never make it o...

15 May 2019

Scientists around the world are working to turn agricultural waste into food, packaging and more

News / Food & Agriculture

Have we overlooked the human side of palm oil production?

...smallholders, who produce about 40 per cent of the world’s palm oil but often do not have access to good quality seeds, fertiliser and knowledge about better agricultural practices, shares Neville. Sh...

1 Aug 2018

Have we overlooked the human side of palm oil production?

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

How the gig economy can transform farms in the developing world

...Smallholders will have better knowledge of what and when to produce, and whom to deliver to. They can then market their produce to consumers with greater confidence, and consumers will know well ahead...

3 Apr 2018

How the gig economy can transform farms in the developing world

Children in Laos get free school lunches in government and World Bank programme

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Climate action must not leave human rights behind

Seventy years ago, in the wake of World War II, the world emerged from one of its darkest times. This led the international community to send a clear message to future generations: “Never again!” Thro...

13 Dec 2018

Climate action must not leave human rights behind

Re-imagining a brighter future: green buildings with urban farming. Image: Olam International

News / Carbon & Climate

What does battling climate change look like?

Global agri-business Olam International and Eco-Business have launched Re-imagining a Brighter Future, a global competition looking for inspiring photographs that show how people are fighting or adapt...

1 Aug 2018

What does battling climate change look like?

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

Palm oil—can we enjoy it responsibly?

...smallholders and rolling out new technologies to several millions of farmers is very costly,” says Suwarganada. Another promising attempt to produce oil palm in a sustainable way comes from Colombia, ...

17 Feb 2019

Palm oil—can we enjoy it responsibly?

News / Policy & Finance

Land rights to forest communities a must to control climate change

Forestry has become an increasingly important issue in South Asia, with the new Pakistani government touting the success of its “billion tree tsunami” in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa as a model for a “ten billi...

13 Dec 2018

Land rights to forest communities a must to control climate change

Press Releases / Olam

Olam Prize for Innovation in Food Security 2019 winner announced

Singapore, June 6, 2019 – A unique mapping approach that will give smallholder farmers a ‘best fit’ for what to grow, where and how, has been awarded the 2019 Olam Prize for Innovati...

11 Jun 2019

Olam Prize for Innovation in Food Security 2019 winner announced

workers in oil palm plantation in Malaysia

News / Food & Agriculture

Buy green palm oil or forests will suffer, industry warns

...smallholders achieve no deforestation by 2020, Ware added. The new RSPO rules run the risk of alienating smaller-scale palm oil producers, many of whom are already struggling to meet the old standards...

27 Nov 2018

Buy green palm oil or forests will suffer, industry warns

News / Food & Agriculture

Cash is best when tackling hunger caused by drought - study

Cash handouts are the best way to support smallholder farmers struggling due to drought, but for farmers experiencing wetter weather, agricultural inputs such as fertilisers and pesticides help most, ...

29 Nov 2017

Cash is best when tackling hunger caused by drought - study

News / Policy & Finance

The coffee farmers betting on blockchain to boost business

On a bustling street near the shiny new international airport in Ethiopia's capital is a small coffee roastery with big dreams. Nearly 40 Ethiopians—a third of them women—sift, roast and package prize...

21 Feb 2019

The coffee farmers betting on blockchain to boost business

News / Food & Agriculture

Why is it so hard to sell sustainable palm oil?

...smallholders. What options will a boycott leave them with? They can’t grow anything else, because of the density of palm oil cultivation. Their other option is either to burn that palm oil off, or mov...

5 Nov 2018

Why is it so hard to sell sustainable palm oil?

Opinion / Green Buildings

Bamboo: Nature’s forgotten solution for green industry

...smallholders and policymakers. Speaking at a conference of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification, Paola Agostini of the World Bank summarised the problem: “I am convinced about bamboo, but we st...

18 Feb 2019

Bamboo: Nature’s forgotten solution for green industry

News / Food & Agriculture

Olam introduces new tool for more transparent supply chains

Food manufacturers may soon be able to tell consumers exactly which farm their cashew nuts were grown in, with the help of a new traceability tool developed by Olam International for its clients. Unv...

19 Apr 2018

Olam introduces new tool for more transparent supply chains

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

Chocolate’s sustainability challenge

In the 1970s and 1980s, when multinational firms first linked sustainability to business success, the chief catalyst was vulnerability, not altruism. Consumer pressure, political boycotts, and costly ...

3 May 2018

Chocolate’s sustainability challenge

News / Carbon & Climate

Vietnam’s new conservation plan prioritises trees and people, but not emissions

For nearly a decade now, Vietnam has made “payment for forest ecosystem services” its key strategy for protecting forests and improving the lives of poor rural communities. Now, it plans to use the sa...

13 Mar 2020

Vietnam’s new conservation plan prioritises trees and people, but not emissions

A farmer inspects his crops in a drought-stricken farm land.

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

Why the next Tesla should take on agriculture

...smallholders’ incomes in the face of climate-related losses based on a weather-related index. With two billion smallholders bearing the brunt of billions of dollars of climate-related disasters, it re...

3 Nov 2017

Why the next Tesla should take on agriculture

News / Food & Agriculture

Is certification enough to protect Southeast Asia's forests?

There is no questioning the value that certification could bring to agroforestry, a sector lumbered with a range of issues from the abuse of indigenous people's rights and deforestation, to biodiversi...

9 May 2018

Is certification enough to protect Southeast Asia's forests?

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