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Food & Agriculture
Human rights hold the key to protecting biodiversity
In October 2021, two tractors with a large chain stretched between them cleared more than 2,000 hectares of forest in the Brazilian Cerrado, one of the world’s most biodiverse areas. Tragically, such ...
24 Aug 2022
Human rights hold the key to protecting biodiversity
News /
Food & Agriculture
Vegan shrimp paste and meatless rendang: Are local flavours key to unlocking alternative protein’s potential in Southeast Asia?
Across fast-growing Southeast Asia, Singapore’s push to build itself as a global hub for alternative proteins might have received the most attention, but over the past year, the sector has started to ...
8 Dec 2023
Vegan shrimp paste and meatless rendang: Are local flavours key to unlocking alternative protein’s potential in Southeast Asia?
Press Releases /
Eco-Business
Pandawa Agri Indonesia partners with Rabo Foundation to aid
smallholders
in Eastern Indonesia
...
smallholders
with a total land area of 97 hectares in Mbay Sub-District, Nagekeo Regency, East Nusa Tenggara. This
smallholders
sustainable agriculture initiative will continue and is targeted to cove...
24 Jun 2022
Pandawa Agri Indonesia partners with Rabo Foundation to aid smallholders in Eastern Indonesia
Press Releases /
Koltiva
Koltiva announces over-subscribed funding round to expand transparency capabilities in agri sector
Koltiva, an Indonesia-based tech start-up focused on agriculture supply chains has announced an undisclosed investment from impact investors Silverstrand Capital with additional ...
22 Sep 2022
Koltiva announces over-subscribed funding round to expand transparency capabilities in agri sector
News /
Food & Agriculture
RSPO chief on why it pushed oil palm giant Sime Darby to submit 'action plan' on alleged labour violations
...
smallholders
] say to me: ‘Miss, I have to work hard just to eat. You are asking me to do this [implement better labour practices], which will impact my bottom line." Nurul Hasanah, head of group susta...
6 Dec 2022
RSPO chief on why it pushed oil palm giant Sime Darby to submit 'action plan' on alleged labour violations
Press Releases /
CIMB
CIMB sets 2030 targets for palm oil and power, advancing its sustainability journey towards net zero by 2050
...
smallholders
, and workers are safeguarded. CIMB is the first bank globally to have announced a science-based Net Zero decarbonisation pathway for the Palm Oil sector. As part of the process, CIMB acti...
24 Nov 2023
CIMB sets 2030 targets for palm oil and power, advancing its sustainability journey towards net zero by 2050
News /
Policy & Finance
Unsung heroes: small-scale farmers step in as climate finance lags
As droughts and floods wreak havoc on harvests, small-scale farmers are spending billions of dollars of their own money each year to adapt to a changing climate, despite it being a problem they did n...
15 Nov 2023
Unsung heroes: small-scale farmers step in as climate finance lags
News /
Policy & Finance
COP28: What to look out for at the Dubai climate summit
Aformer head of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) used to describe the annual climate summit as “the only circus in town”. It may not be good enough to control climate change, he ...
29 Nov 2023
COP28: What to look out for at the Dubai climate summit
Opinion /
Policy & Finance
The energy transition is fuelling a power transition
In the battle to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions and avert the worst impacts of climate change, the world has a vast resource that remains largely untapped: women. Preventing the catastrophic effects ...
6 Jul 2023
The energy transition is fuelling a power transition
News /
Food & Agriculture
Former RSPO co-chair Carl Bek-Nielsen appointed chairman of Malaysian Palm Oil Council
...
smallholders
have protested the law, with industry growers saying that it could render sustainable palm oil certification irrelevant. Bek-Nielsen’s appointment as MPOC chairman is effective 1 May 2023...
27 Mar 2023
Former RSPO co-chair Carl Bek-Nielsen appointed chairman of Malaysian Palm Oil Council
Press Releases /
Grow Asia
AGRA, Grow Asia enter collaboration agreement to drive South-South cooperation between Africa, Asia
AGRA and Grow Asia have signed a collaboration agreement to accelerate food system transformation in Africa and Asia. Grounded in the spirit of South-South Cooperation between the leading agri-food pl...
27 Oct 2022
AGRA, Grow Asia enter collaboration agreement to drive South-South cooperation between Africa, Asia
Opinion /
Food & Agriculture
Governing the right to food
...
smallholders
, transforming Global South countries into food importers vulnerable to price spikes. Financial power also buys narrative power, which can be used to praise the latest food tech. No one sh...
21 Jul 2023
Governing the right to food
News /
Carbon & Climate
Clear climate targets can help clean up palm oil’s image: Malaysian plantation giant KLK sustainability chief
...
smallholders
and planters. That is very difficult and complicated for us, though over the next 18 months, we will try to identify the different types of platforms and technologies that we can use [to...
6 Jul 2023
Clear climate targets can help clean up palm oil’s image: Malaysian plantation giant KLK sustainability chief
News /
Policy & Finance
How microloans exacerbate deforestation in Cambodia
In Cambodia’s Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary, spanning 490,000 hectares, expansive tracts of protected forest are being illegally converted to cassava, cashew and rubber plantations. Husband and wife Pi...
22 Apr 2024
How microloans exacerbate deforestation in Cambodia
News /
Food & Agriculture
India's farmers wrestle with shift to eco-friendly agriculture
...
smallholders
and make farming more climate-friendly, India is promoting organic and natural farming, encouraging diversification to cut dependence on one major crop and incentivising solar-powered wat...
22 Nov 2023
India's farmers wrestle with shift to eco-friendly agriculture
News /
Food & Agriculture
In India, 'natural farming' draws young people back to the land
...
smallholders
, have embraced natural farming - up from 40,000 when the state government launched a "community-managed natural farming" scheme in 2015. Natural farming shuns synthetic fertilisers and pe...
22 Nov 2023
In India, 'natural farming' draws young people back to the land
News /
Cities
Record high deforestation hits Sumatra’s ‘orangutan capital’ as palm oil industry expands
...
smallholders
. These locally influential individuals wield power and have access to the resources needed to establish significant oil palm plantations, according to RAN. Often this power stems from a p...
28 Mar 2023
Record high deforestation hits Sumatra’s ‘orangutan capital’ as palm oil industry expands
News /
Food & Agriculture
Practising human rights due diligence in the palm oil industry
Concerns over labour rights abuse in Malaysia’s palm oil sector has put the industry under scrutiny in recent years. In 2022, the Human Rights Commission of Malaysia (SUHAKAM) found that eight out of...
3 May 2024
Practising human rights due diligence in the palm oil industry
News /
Manufacturing
Palm oil derivatives: are sustainability promises lost in the supply chain?
...
smallholders
, who grow oil palm on land less than 50 hectares in area. The company’s palm commitment does acknowledge the need to include
smallholders
in supply chains but, based on its ACOP, it has n...
1 Sep 2022
Palm oil derivatives: are sustainability promises lost in the supply chain?
News /
Food & Agriculture
First crops, now animals: Climate change hurts Bangladesh farmers
Along Bangladesh's southern coast, farmers threatened by the impacts of climate change are striving to boost their resilience to rising salinity in the soil and water by growing salt-tolerant crops a...
25 Aug 2023
First crops, now animals: Climate change hurts Bangladesh farmers
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Energy
Financing Indonesia’s energy transition can happen beyond sluggish JETP deals – here’s how
Experts say that rerouting subsidies and implementing a better tender process for renewables can help Indonesia reduce its …
Financing Indonesia’s energy transition can happen beyond sluggish JETP deals – here’s how
News /
Energy
Hong Kong power firm CLP appoints Swire Coca-Cola’s Suzanne Cheung to run environment function
Cheung was previously head of public affairs, communications and sustainability for Coca-Cola's bottler in Hong Kong.
Hong Kong power firm CLP appoints Swire Coca-Cola's Suzanne Cheung to run environment function
News /
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 /
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?
News /
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
News /
Policy & Finance
Insurers and reinsurers need to play a role in lowering the cost of Asia’s coal phase-out: GFANZ
Several big insurers have pulled out of the coal business due to their exclusion policies in recent years. …
Insurers and reinsurers need to play a role in lowering the cost of Asia’s coal phase-out: GFANZ
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