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How do companies benefit from sustainable palm oil certification?
In Southeast Asia, the heartland of the palm oil trade, firms of all sizes and sectors face scrutiny from consumers and environmental groups to prove that this cheap, versatile ingredient found in hal...
9 Nov 2018
How do companies benefit from sustainable palm oil certification?
News /
Food & Agriculture
What do Indonesians really think about palm oil?
The farming and production of palm oil has formed the backbone of many communities in Indonesia, the world's largest producer of the world's most widely consumed edible oil. Palm oil accounts for 11 p...
16 Jan 2019
What do Indonesians really think about palm oil?
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Policy & Finance
End of funding dims hopes for a Sumatran forest targeted by palm oil growers
Its name in Indonesian means “hope,” but there seems to be little of that remaining for the Harapan rainforest, a tropical woodland oasis in an ever-expanding desert of oil palm plantations in Sumatra...
12 Nov 2018
End of funding dims hopes for a Sumatran forest targeted by palm oil growers
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Food & Agriculture
Forest and farm producers: first responders to climate change
...
smallholders
need now is greater investment in their organisations so this work can not only continue, but expand. It’s simply common sense. Their lives and work puts these producers on the front line...
21 Jun 2017
Forest and farm producers: first responders to climate change
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Food & Agriculture
Has the conversation about palm oil moved from environment to people?
...
Smallholders
are often blamed for the slash-and-burn practices that result in the haze, and Lee Chen Chen, director of policy programmes, SIIA, pointed out that
smallholders
usually have the least acc...
12 Apr 2017
Has the conversation about palm oil moved from environment to people?
Opinion /
Food & Agriculture
A new normal in the battle against fire and haze
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smallholders
form a larger portion of the agriculture and forestry holdings globally and that fires do occur on these lands too. Another common accusation is to blame a particular product—palm oil. Ov...
17 Aug 2018
A new normal in the battle against fire and haze
Opinion /
Food & Agriculture
Where should we invest to keep hunger at bay?
...
smallholders
often lack access to data, we must invest to build an appropriate, accessible, and affordable provider-user networks. ADB is currently working to facilitate the transmission of data-drive...
17 Oct 2017
Where should we invest to keep hunger at bay?
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Food & Agriculture
Can technology keep farmers in farms?
Automation and other technologies have created more jobs in sectors such as information and communications technology (ICT) or business process outsourcing (BPO), but the same is untrue for agricultur...
9 May 2018
Can technology keep farmers in farms?
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Food & Agriculture
Palm oil watchdog urged to take 'giant leap' to save forests
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smallholders
. While many RSPO members are pushing for tougher standards, some industry officials warn this could exclude palm companies that have yet to join, especially smaller growers who cannot aff...
27 Aug 2018
Palm oil watchdog urged to take 'giant leap' to save forests
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Food & Agriculture
The top 5 food and agriculture stories in 2017
Agriculture, forestry and other land use activities emit more than 10 billion tonnes of greenhouse gases, based on a study by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). As the world’s...
27 Dec 2017
The top 5 food and agriculture stories in 2017
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Food & Agriculture
How will Southeast Asia feed its people in 2030?
According to the World Food Programme, 795 million people -- one in nine -- go to bed on an empty stomach each night. Even more - one in three - suffer from some form of malnutrition. Some 60.5 millio...
17 May 2017
How will Southeast Asia feed its people in 2030?
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Policy & Finance
Indonesia calls on palm oil industry, obscured by secrecy, to remain opaque
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smallholders
, and that the government wanted to give them an opportunity to comply before releasing any data. “We’re fixing that, step by step,” Luhut said as quoted by CNN Indonesia. “In the future, ...
22 May 2019
Indonesia calls on palm oil industry, obscured by secrecy, to remain opaque
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Policy & Finance
Stop "boring" language to spur climate action, U.N. environment chief says
People are hungry for news about the risks of climate change but experts are alienating them with boring, technical jargon, the United Nations top environment official said on Tuesday. Erik Solheim, e...
20 Dec 2017
Stop "boring" language to spur climate action, U.N. environment chief says
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Policy & Finance
Indonesian smallholder farmers to receive funding boost for irrigation
Up to 24 million smallholder farmers in Indonesia stand to benefit from a large-scale financing scheme that seeks to boost rural livelihoods by providing more reliable access to water. Known as the In...
23 Feb 2017
Indonesian smallholder farmers to receive funding boost for irrigation
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Carbon & Climate
Economic headwinds buffet once-resilient Sumatran forest-farms
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smallholders
have compelled the regions forest-farmers to abandon damar agroforestry over the past decade. Krui is located in Lampung province, bounded by the Indian Ocean and Bukit Barisan Selatan Na...
24 Oct 2017
Economic headwinds buffet once-resilient Sumatran forest-farms
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Policy & Finance
Private sector leaders seek to ramp up investment in sustainable landscapes
At the Global Landscapes Forum’s third investment case symposium, held at the World Bank Group’s International Finance Corporation in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, top investors, business leaders, an...
5 Jun 2018
Private sector leaders seek to ramp up investment in sustainable landscapes
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Food & Agriculture
Zero-deforestation pledges held back by challenges
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smallholders
in these initiatives by covering the added costs of compliance. More broadly, officials can ensure public support of these private initiatives by passing “supportive” laws that are in lin...
2 Feb 2018
Zero-deforestation pledges held back by challenges
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Policy & Finance
3 ways to jumpstart sustainable business in the Philippines
If the Philippines is to realise its full economic potential and improve the lives of its citizens, sustainability advocates must stop working on single issues in isolation and band together to achiev...
27 Sep 2017
3 ways to jumpstart sustainable business in the Philippines
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Food & Agriculture
How will humanity feed itself by 2050?
The food industry today faces a daunting task: feeding 10 billion mouths in a fair and sustainable way by 2050. According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, food supply must more...
30 Jul 2018
How will humanity feed itself by 2050?
Opinion /
CSR
The BlackRock letter: A turning point for real change?
Although greenwashing is far too common, recently there have been two powerful “green shots,” which show that business is finally taking sustainability a lot more seriously. These are, in our opinion ...
12 Feb 2018
The BlackRock letter: A turning point for real change?
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Japan-led decarbonisation forum called out for promoting ‘false’ climate solutions to Indonesia
Billed as a platform to advance decarbonisation and boosting economic growth, environmentalists say the Asia Zero Emission Community …
Japan-led decarbonisation forum called out for promoting 'false' climate solutions to Indonesia
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Carbon & Climate
Why is the weather becoming more extreme?
Climate change is making floods, heatwaves and storms more frequent and more intense; scientists warn emissions must be …
Why is the weather becoming more extreme?
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Food & Agriculture
Can regenerative agriculture make palm oil sustainable?
Large trials in Indonesia and Malaysia are showing it is possible to become sustainable without damaging productivity or …
Can regenerative agriculture make palm oil sustainable?
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Manufacturing
‘Too much humiliation’: Why Samsung workers are striking in India
From poor pay to no holiday leave, hundreds of Samsung workers in India say they want basic rights …
'Too much humiliation': Why Samsung workers are striking in India
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Food & Agriculture
Industry pressure stalls EU anti-deforestation law rollout; NGOs call delay ‘an act of nature vandalism’
After sustained pressure from commodity producers and resistance from its own members, the EU Commission decided to postpone …
Industry pressure stalls EU anti-deforestation law rollout; NGOs call delay 'an act of nature vandalism'
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Energy
Japan’s decarbonisation projects in Southeast Asia are prolonging fossil fuel use: study
Projects involving liquified natural gas, ammonia co-firing with coal plants and carbon capture and storage are designed to …
Japan’s decarbonisation projects in Southeast Asia are prolonging fossil fuel use: study
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