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Research / UNEP Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific Bangkok

Smallholders, food security, and the environment

Smallholders, food security, and the environment There are 1.4 billion poor people living on less than US$1.25 a day. One billion of them live in rural areas where agriculture is their main source of...

6 Jun 2013

Smallholders, food security, and the environment

News / Policy & Finance

RI proposal to merge palm oil certifications gets warm welcome

...smallholders obtain the certificate.” Indonesia, which saw around 6.7 million of its population working in the palm oil sector last year, expects its palm oil output to rise to 28 million tons this ye...

11 Jun 2014

RI proposal to merge palm oil certifications gets warm welcome

News / Food & Agriculture

Smallholder farmers key to new agricultural revolution

...Smallholders, Food Security and the Environment details the crucial role smallholder farmers play in the global scale. Smallholder farmers are farmers with small farms, operating roughly two hectares ...

6 Jun 2013

Smallholder farmers key to new agricultural revolution

News / Food & Agriculture

Prioritise action over perfection: RSPO chief

...smallholders on palm oil is critical to achieving traceability back to plantations. However, the panel of experts emphasised that traceability was not a substitute for sustainability – it was simply a...

24 Nov 2014

Prioritise action over perfection: RSPO chief

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

A quiet transformation in climate change

It is estimated that the impact of climate change already reduces global GDP by 1.6 per cent every year. The Global Commission on Economy and Climate has noted that as temperatures warm towards a 2°C ...

24 Sep 2014

A quiet transformation in climate change

News / Carbon & Climate

Smallholder farmers in Cameroon nearly ready for REDD+ — with a bit of help

A recent study of two villages in Cameroon indicates that small farmers there are not far from having the capacity to make REDD+ projects work in their communities. As the links between agriculture an...

18 Nov 2013

Smallholder farmers in Cameroon nearly ready for REDD+ — with a bit of help

News / Food & Agriculture

RSPO: The road ahead for palm oil

...smallholders groups from Indonesia and Malaysia, providing funding to a Dutch NGO under its RSPO Smallholders Support Fund that helps small-scale farmers increase the production of certified sustainab...

15 Jan 2014

RSPO: The road ahead for palm oil

Smallholder farmer in palm oil plantation

News / Food & Agriculture

‘No single silver bullet’ to address palm oil sustainability: experts

Major stakeholder groups in the palm oil sector found some common ground and issued a set of recommendations to improve the sector at the Responsible Business Forum on Sustainable Development in Singa...

27 Nov 2013

‘No single silver bullet’ to address palm oil sustainability: experts

News / Food & Agriculture

UN Global Compact launches six principles for sustainable food industry

...smallholders and small-and-medium enterprises. “ We welcome all farmers and agribusinesses – regardless of size, crop or location – to make this principle-based commitment and show their overall ori...

15 May 2014

UN Global Compact launches six principles for sustainable food industry

News / Food & Agriculture

New coalition to turn tea from drink to 'hero crop'

...smallholders and rural workers move to the city to seek better wages and lifestyles”. This means the industry has to provide smallholders and growers better benefits, such as helping them to achieve h...

25 Feb 2014

New coalition to turn tea from drink to 'hero crop'

News / Policy & Finance

Palm oil industry struggles to build trust in rights pledges

...smallholders, to improve their practices. Unilever, for example, announced in November it would develop a programme in Indonesia - the biggest grower of palm oil - with government-owned plantation com...

23 Apr 2014

Palm oil industry struggles to build trust in rights pledges

News / Food & Agriculture

Oil palm smallholders get financial aid for certification

The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), a non-profit promoting sustainable palm production, says it will give financial aid to smallholders seeking certification.Indonesia RSPO director Desi Ku...

8 May 2013

Oil palm smallholders get financial aid for certification

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

SMEs are making strides toward sustainable sourcing

An increasing number of smaller businesses are following in the footsteps of multinationals like Unilever by adopting sustainable sourcing strategies. The impact of climate change on crop yields is a ...

14 Aug 2014

SMEs are making strides toward sustainable sourcing

News / Food & Agriculture

Monkey hordes threaten farmers’ livelihoods

Dozens of monkeys have descended the slopes of Mount Merapi in Central Java to ransack fields for food in the district of Klaten, leaving farmers facing the prospect of a failed crop. Hordes of monkey...

24 Jan 2014

Monkey hordes threaten farmers’ livelihoods

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Indonesia losing primary forest at unprecedented rates

...smallholders, such as by expanding agriculture onto already-degraded lands as opposed to pristine forest. Indonesia can also learn from other leaders in forest conservation. A few years ago, Brazil...

1 Jul 2014

Indonesia losing primary forest at unprecedented rates

News / Carbon & Climate

Will climate change spark an Asian migrant crisis?

...smallholders, which help to keep the farmer's cows - and livelihoods - alive. Edes adds that affordable insurance is also important for community resilience. It prevents farmers from sliding into po...

2 Oct 2015

Will climate change spark an Asian migrant crisis?

News / Food & Agriculture

UN urges countries to boost action against banana disease

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is warning countries to step up monitoring, reporting and prevention to tackle one of the world’s most destructive banana diseases, Fusarium ...

15 Apr 2014

UN urges countries to boost action against banana disease

News / Food & Agriculture

Re-thinking investment in landscapes to aid sustainable development

...smallholders Population has more than trebled in Malawi over the past 50 years, taking its toll on forests as farmers search for new land, said Sosten Chiotha, regional program director with Leadershi...

18 Dec 2013

Re-thinking investment in landscapes to aid sustainable development

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

It's time for a global landscape restoration revolution

The solution to the very visible global problems of deforestation, desertification and food scarcity may be hiding in plain sight: the transformative ability to restore degraded land to productive use...

29 Jul 2014

It's time for a global landscape restoration revolution

News / Food & Agriculture

More companies obtain sustainable certification

...smallholders and plasma plantation smallholders certified, the former will be funded by the government.The government-backed ISPO certification program was unveiled in late 2009 after consumer product...

22 Aug 2013

More companies obtain sustainable certification