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Malaysia: Najib launches National Policy on Biological Diversity 2016-2025

Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak on Monday launched the revised National Policy on Biological Diversity to guide biodiversity management over the next 10 years from 2016. The policy emphasise...

24 Feb 2016

Malaysia: Najib launches National Policy on Biological Diversity 2016-2025

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

Palm oil shows need for socially aware research

In recent weeks, I attended two events that prompted me to start inspecting the labels of cosmetics, detergents and packaged foods in my house. I was looking for evidence of palm oil products, in resp...

21 Jun 2016

Palm oil shows need for socially aware research

News / Carbon & Climate

As Indonesian forests burn, new anti-fire agency feels heat

...smallholders who use slash-and-burn practices to clear land cheaply. Peaty soil, found in many parts of Indonesia, is particularly flammable when dry, often causing fires to spread beyond their intend...

4 Apr 2016

As Indonesian forests burn, new anti-fire agency feels heat

News / Policy & Finance

Indonesia loses flagship case against company accused of burning

Round two, industry. Four months after Indonesia’s Supreme Court ordered an oil palm grower to pay a record $26 million for cut-and-burning forest in Aceh, a different firm has been acquitted of a sim...

8 Jan 2016

Indonesia loses flagship case against company accused of burning

News / Food & Agriculture

Can superfoods boost the planet’s health, too?

It can seem like new health food fads pop up every week — fads that often fade as quickly as they appear. Two gaining steam lately, though, may be worth a longer look: baobab and moringa. Traditional ...

30 May 2016

Can superfoods boost the planet’s health, too?

News / Food & Agriculture

What can nearly 12,000 ‘orphan crops’ do to address the nutrition gap?

...smallholders." Can IP restrictions on the genetically modified crop varieties be avoided or managed to make them available and affordable to small-holders and local farming operations? Diran Makinde,...

14 Oct 2015

What can nearly 12,000 ‘orphan crops’ do to address the nutrition gap?

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

Time for fire solutions

...smallholders. The laws that allow them to burn land must be reformed immediately. However we also need to recognise that enforcement here is less effective, as alternatives to fire for land developmen...

29 Sep 2015

Time for fire solutions

Press Releases / Olam International

New agri-business alliance gets its sights on 2030 UN SDG targets

Thirty-six leading agri-business companies have today launched the Global Agri-business Alliance (GAA) in Singapore. Their aim is to collectively tackle the major environmental and social challenges f...

19 Sep 2016

New agri-business alliance gets its sights on 2030 UN SDG targets

News / Food & Agriculture

Champions wage war on wasted food

Governments, businesses and citizens’ groups are joining forces to try to put some beef into efforts to cut food loss and waste in a world facing growing hunger. Almost a third of all food produced gl...

25 Jan 2016

Champions wage war on wasted food

News / Food & Agriculture

Malaysia, Indonesia set up palm oil council

...smallholders. Najib said the council would be headed by a chief executive whose name would be unveiled at the official ASEAN summit in Kuala Lumpur on Nov 15. On the government level, he said, Ministe...

12 Oct 2015

Malaysia, Indonesia set up palm oil council

News / Carbon & Climate

Indonesia investigates 10 firms over smog-causing forest fires

...smallholders for the fires, but they have been criticised by green groups for not doing enough to stop the haze or the rampant deforestation and destruction of carbon-rich peatlands in Indonesia.

9 Sep 2015

Indonesia investigates 10 firms over smog-causing forest fires

Press Releases / RSPO

Sabah aims for statewide certified sustainable palm oil: Global first

...smallholders and independent farmers who normally find it difficult to secure international standard certification. Sabah is now laying the groundwork to asses all possibilities, by bringing together...

29 May 2015

Sabah aims for statewide certified sustainable palm oil: Global first

News / Food & Agriculture

Palm oil giant IOI sues RSPO over suspension

Palm oil giant IOI Group is suing the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) - an organisation it helped start - over its decision to suspend IOI's membership on allegations that its subsidiaries f...

10 May 2016

Palm oil giant IOI sues RSPO over suspension

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

Extending Indonesia’s forest moratorium is a win for business

...smallholders’ yields. Protecting landscapes protects profits Preserving forest landscapes is critical for smallholders’ economic vitality. Healthy forests provide many ecosystem services, including th...

14 May 2015

Extending Indonesia’s forest moratorium is a win for business

News / Food & Agriculture

Feeding the world's cities: a critical challenge for sustainable development

...smallholders, along the whole supply and value chain. Crucial to this is drastically reducing food losses and waste, which are especially high in urban areas. This includes measures such as redistribu...

18 Jan 2016

Feeding the world's cities: a critical challenge for sustainable development

News / CSR

FGV denies WSJ allegations of human rights abuses

...smallholders and plantation workers, without whom we would not be able to operate daily," it said.

28 Jul 2015

FGV denies WSJ allegations of human rights abuses

News / Carbon & Climate

NASA photo reveals Asia’s choking haze

...Smallholders are also feeling the heat — some companies have blamed small palm oil developers for setting fires that have spread into concession areas. The bad news is fires and haze may get worse bef...

1 Oct 2015

NASA photo reveals Asia’s choking haze

News / Food & Agriculture

Collaboration crucial to food security in Southeast Asia

To ensure food security and nutrition in Southeast Asia amid a shrinking agricultural workforce, growing population and diminishing natural resources, businesses, governments and civil society need to...

9 Jul 2015

Collaboration crucial to food security in Southeast Asia

News / Food & Agriculture

Will sustainable palm oil surge exclude small farmers?

...smallholders - in many cases, helping them to replant," he noted. Sen, who also co-chairs the RSPO board, said Unilever is seeking to partner with governments in palm oil-producing nations, donor agen...

25 Feb 2015

Will sustainable palm oil surge exclude small farmers?

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Opinion / Policy & Finance

New EU-Indonesia timber agreement will improve forest protection

...smallholders would be unable to meet the costs of certification. There were often times when I too thought the challenge was too great. Yet, in the end, the criticism of the SVLK and the pessimism abo...

18 May 2016

New EU-Indonesia timber agreement will improve forest protection

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