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Climate change threatens agricultural trade in Pacific Rim economies, UN agency warns

With global warming expected to significantly impact future yields in countries located closer to the equator, the United Nations agriculture agency is calling on Asia-Pacific economies to take a lead...

26 Aug 2017

Climate change threatens agricultural trade in Pacific Rim economies, UN agency warns

News / Carbon & Climate

While Trump addresses UN, businesses meet to address climate change

...smallholders increase their yields, and they will be the focus of a Wednesday event called “Going ‘All-In’ to Address Commodity-Driven Deforestation” The event runs from 3:30pm to 8pm at the Rockefell...

19 Sep 2017

While Trump addresses UN, businesses meet to address climate change

News / Food & Agriculture

Q&A: We need to produce ‘different food’, not more

...smallholders will convert to largeholders, because that's what's necessary for that system to be profitable. So there is a degree of cultural imperialism in that business model, which is not necessari...

12 Dec 2017

Q&A: We need to produce ‘different food’, not more

News / Food & Agriculture

Higher incomes driving Indonesian smallholders to oil palm and rubber

...smallholders who were very poor and started planting oil palm 20 years ago, and now are able to put their children into higher education.” The research “reconfirms what most people working in this lan...

4 Nov 2016

Higher incomes driving Indonesian smallholders to oil palm and rubber

News / Policy & Finance

Indonesia will fund green projects and rural livelihoods

The Indonesian government and key partners have launched a unique financing platform that taps on public funding to unlock private finance for long-term green projects and to stimulate livelihoods in ...

3 Nov 2016

Indonesia will fund green projects and rural livelihoods

News / Food & Agriculture

FAO warns of tilapia virus as outbreak spreads

...smallholders. China, Indonesia and Egypt are the three leading aquaculture producers of tilapia, a fish deemed to have great potential for expansion in sub-Saharan Africa. In 2015, world tilapia produ...

15 Jun 2017

FAO warns of tilapia virus as outbreak spreads

News / Carbon & Climate

Smallholders team up to confront climate change impacts

Farmers in Mwingi, a remote, arid and impoverished region of Kitui County of Kenya have been experiencing unreliable rain patterns and problems associated with droughts. Smallholder farmers have been ...

18 Jan 2017

Smallholders team up to confront climate change impacts

News / Carbon & Climate

Are ‘no deforestation’ commitments working?

Using LANDSAT satellite data to observe annual changes in forest area and annual expansion of industrial plantations, scientists at the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) are assessing...

4 Dec 2017

Are ‘no deforestation’ commitments working?

News / Food & Agriculture

How Cargill is feeding a changing, growing world

For most people, food represents pleasure, comfort, nourishment and economic sustenance. But in recent decades, growing and consuming food have become mired in difficult questions about hunger, climat...

22 Jan 2018

How Cargill is feeding a changing, growing world

News / Food & Agriculture

New reporting guidelines set benchmark for palm oil transparency

...smallholders, compliance, and external initiatives. Specific data requirements include disclosing all of a company's concession maps, names of their suppliers, and detailed descriptions of how they ar...

27 Jan 2017

New reporting guidelines set benchmark for palm oil transparency

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

Smallholder inclusion in company supply chains: top five success factors

...smallholders into company value chains. Integrating smallholders depends on mobilizing the intermediary companies in the supply chain and providing them with the knowledge and economic incentive. As ...

12 Apr 2016

Smallholder inclusion in company supply chains: top five success factors

News / Food & Agriculture

Coffee belt feels climate squeeze

...smallholders, who are among those most exposed to climate change. John Connor, CEO, Climate Institute Increased consumption John Connor, CEO of the Sydney-based Climate Institute, says: “Over 2.25 bi...

19 Dec 2016

Coffee belt feels climate squeeze

Press Releases / Olam International

Olam sees major issues remaining for smallholders beyond 2020

...Smallholders grow globally consumed crops such as cocoa, coffee and cashew and if they don’t see farming as a viable livelihood then they will seek other work, typically in the cities. Since we ...

12 Jul 2016

Olam sees major issues remaining for smallholders beyond 2020

News / Policy & Finance

Fears of SDG clashes overblown, study finds

Fears that progress towards some Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) may undermine achievements in others are largely unfounded, a science-based analysis of their interactions has concluded. The SDG...

14 Jun 2017

Fears of SDG clashes overblown, study finds

Press Releases / Olam International

Olam reports on 2015 sustainability progress

...smallholders ·254,146 smallholders trained in Good Agricultural Practices ·1,816 model farms, demo plots and farmer field schools to reinforce training application ·120,000 far...

29 Jun 2016

Olam reports on 2015 sustainability progress

News / Food & Agriculture

Poor farmers--unlike rich--face uphill battle with Pakistan’s climate extremes

Since his father died in 2011, Moeez Assadullah has been looking after his family's farm alone. The 21-year-old tends the 3 hectares (7 acres) of land without the help of his two brothers, who lost in...

30 Mar 2017

Poor farmers--unlike rich--face uphill battle with Pakistan’s climate extremes

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

A quiet traceable revolution in the palm oil industry

...smallholders, rather than controlled by a handful of big companies. To provide an example, a staggering 40 per cent of all palm oil estates in Indonesia is managed by some two million smallholders. An...

15 Jun 2016

A quiet traceable revolution in the palm oil industry

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

Soil science for a hungry planet

According to the United Nations, sometime around 2050, the planet’s human population will be close to ten billion, a threshold that will stress many of the world’s most important systems, especially a...

4 Aug 2017

Soil science for a hungry planet

News / Carbon & Climate

New partnership between FAO and UNFCCC climate body

...smallholders, a large share of the population in many developing countries most exposed to climate change. The new collaboration will facilitate capacity building and the sharing of technical expertis...

24 Mar 2017

New partnership between FAO and UNFCCC climate body

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Changing landscapes: key issues for action on sustainable development in 2018

Last January, I set out the issues I felt were most likely to affect sustainable development practice over 2017, asking what damage might be done by the election of a climate denier to the US presiden...

8 Jan 2018

Changing landscapes: key issues for action on sustainable development in 2018

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