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Opinion /
Food & Agriculture
Food + energy = crisis?
...
smallholders
are only a fraction of those possible under modern intensive farming conditions. “ So, to feed 11 billion people without destroying nature, we must intensify farming. But because intensi...
4 Apr 2014
Food + energy = crisis?
News /
Carbon & Climate
Palm oil under pressure
...
smallholders
received RSPO certification. Cargill then marketed their certificates so they could receive money from them. In January 2012, the
smallholders
received the first payout of US$120,000 (Rp1...
29 Apr 2013
Palm oil under pressure
Opinion /
Policy & Finance
Assured mutual dependence
LONDON – During the Cold War, the certainty of “mutually assured destruction” steered the nuclear arms race away from catastrophe: a would-be attacker would face immediate retaliation, inevitably endi...
5 Feb 2014
Assured mutual dependence
News /
Food & Agriculture
New Palm Oil Innovation Group set to address haze issue
...
smallholders
who take the blame when land is cleared by burning. “ With only a handful of participants, the POIG is a fraction of the size of the RSPO, which includes more than 1,000 members. But t...
1 Jul 2013
New Palm Oil Innovation Group set to address haze issue
News /
Carbon & Climate
RSPO vows probe into members tied to fires
Police in Sumatra’s Riau province now have nine people in custody for setting forest fires that have blanketed the region and neighboring countries in haze, an official said on Tuesday. Brig. Gen. Ron...
27 Jun 2013
RSPO vows probe into members tied to fires
News /
Food & Agriculture
RSPO certification for
smallholders
...
smallholders
in key markets such as Indonesia, Thailand and West Africa. The RSPO had also set aside 300,000 euros to encourage
smallholders
to certify their plantations, said RSPO secretary-general D...
22 Jun 2012
RSPO certification for smallholders
News /
Carbon & Climate
Farmers seek new income from Fairtrade carbon credits
...
smallholders
to access the carbon market and receive much-needed finance to mitigate and adapt to climate change, the organisations said. Click here to read the full story.
11 Jan 2013
Farmers seek new income from Fairtrade carbon credits
Opinion /
Food & Agriculture
Getting our act together: Sustainability in the Malaysian palm oil industry
...
smallholders
, such as improved working conditions and a better way of life: Image: Solidaridad It is therefore essential that we make the right decision: that is, forego the misperception that respon...
14 Mar 2014
Getting our act together: Sustainability in the Malaysian palm oil industry
News /
Food & Agriculture
Keresa Plantations grows on RSPO practices, smallholder co-operatives
...
smallholders
, Kumaran said, “Currently, Keresa Plantations has formed Keresa
Smallholders
Group Scheme (KSGS). In the master plan, we have planned to attract all
smallholders
that sending FFB to KMSB ...
3 May 2012
Keresa Plantations grows on RSPO practices, smallholder co-operatives
Opinion /
Carbon & Climate
Fire and haze in Riau: Looking beyond the hotspots
...
smallholders
’, as has also been observed by the World Agroforestry Centre. Clearly, we don’t have the full picture of these investment trends – who is behind them, to what extent the investments are l...
23 Sep 2013
Fire and haze in Riau: Looking beyond the hotspots
News /
Carbon & Climate
Haze hits hazardous levels, Singapore and Indonesia at war of words
The haze in Singapore reached hazardous levels on Thursday afternoon, with the Pollutant Standards Index (PSI) hitting a new record of 371 at 1pm. Visibility was poor in most parts of the island and t...
20 Jun 2013
Haze hits hazardous levels, Singapore and Indonesia at war of words
Opinion /
Food & Agriculture
Feeding the world with a mix of science and tradition
The biotech industry has long sought legitimacy by claiming that its genetically modified crop technologies are “feeding the world”. However this relentless focus on increasing food production ignores...
11 Jul 2013
Feeding the world with a mix of science and tradition
News /
Carbon & Climate
Slash-and-burn a way of life on Indonesia's Sumatra
...
smallholders
suggests that blame is widely spread, even if big companies often buy the palm oil fruit produced on the smaller, private farms. Small farmers clearing their own land, people paid to quie...
5 Jul 2013
Slash-and-burn a way of life on Indonesia's Sumatra
Opinion /
Food & Agriculture
Learning from African farmers: How “re-greening” boosts food security; curbs climate change
President Obama is in Africa this week to discuss development, investment, health, and, notably, food security. The trip comes on the heels of the president’s groundbreaking announcement of a U.S. Cli...
19 Jul 2013
Learning from African farmers: How “re-greening” boosts food security; curbs climate change
News /
Food & Agriculture
Green activists sound warning on foreign investments in oil palm estates
Environmental activists have responded with alarm to new data showing Indonesia has the third-biggest area of land in the world given over to foreign control since 2000, warning of dire implications t...
17 Jun 2013
Green activists sound warning on foreign investments in oil palm estates
News /
Energy
Biomass a benefit to rural Cambodia
...
smallholders
to take advantage of growing biofuel markets.”
25 Sep 2012
Biomass a benefit to rural Cambodia
Press Releases /
Eco-Business
World Water Day 2012: Water and food security, two sides of the same coin
The following statement was released by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) for World Water Day 2012. There are many compelling facts and figures about the outlook for food se...
22 Mar 2012
World Water Day 2012: Water and food security, two sides of the same coin
Opinion /
Policy & Finance
Food security must be on the table at Rio+20: Joint opinion article by the heads of FAO, IFAD, WFP and Bioversity
They struggle to make crops grow in the parched earth. They watch in despair as their seedlings and livestock are washed away by flash floods. They stand quietly in the markets and watch others buy fo...
21 Jun 2012
Food security must be on the table at Rio+20: Joint opinion article by the heads of FAO, IFAD, WFP and Bioversity
News /
Food & Agriculture
Cambodia’s largest MFI boosts green farming loans
Cambodian microfinance institution PRASAC says it is bolstering its green credentials by increasing loans for eco-friendly farming methods in the kingdom. Speaking at the the Asia-Pacific Rural and Ag...
1 Jun 2012
Cambodia’s largest MFI boosts green farming loans
Press Releases /
Eco-Business
Researchers, farmers and policy makers to collaborate on “massive” climate adaptation challenge for South Asia
Today, recognizing the knowledge gap between the existing evidence of climate change and adaptation on the ground, researchers in Asia launched a novel learning platform to improve agricultural resili...
24 Apr 2012
Researchers, farmers and policy makers to collaborate on “massive” climate adaptation challenge for South Asia
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Carbon & Climate
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
News /
Food & Agriculture
Tech key to reducing Scope 3 palm oil emissions in Malaysia amid increasing regulation: industry watchers
EB Studio
Beyond adapting to new regulations on sustainability and deforestation, the palm oil industry also needs to leverage technology …
Tech key to reducing Scope 3 palm oil emissions in Malaysia amid increasing regulation: industry watchers
News /
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?
News /
Carbon & Climate
Malaysia’s draft climate change bill seeks to establish emissions trading scheme
Emissions thresholds will be set for organisations, starting with hard-to-abate sectors or large emitters. The draft bill also …
Malaysia’s draft climate change bill seeks to establish emissions trading scheme
News /
Policy & Finance
Indonesia’s sustainable finance taxonomy is Asia’s ‘least stringent’ for classifying new coal plants as green: study
The taxonomies of Singapore and Thailand are Southeast Asia's most robust, according to a report by the Institute …
Indonesia's sustainable finance taxonomy is Asia's 'least stringent' for classifying new coal plants as green: study
News /
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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