Food & Agriculture News
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Extreme heat is growing threat to harvestsA warmer world means more chance of extreme heat in more than one continent at the same time, and a rising threat to global food security. -
Singapore makes room for allotment gardens as urban farming takes rootAgriculture makes up only about 1 per cent of Singapore's land area, but urban farming—including vertical and rooftop farms—is fast becoming popular.
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Palm oil, logging firms the usual suspects as Indonesia fires flare anewFor many of the companies involved, this isn’t the first time fires have sprung up on their land, prompting activists to question the government’s ability to enforce its own regulations against slash-and-burn forest clearing. -
Restoring forests rules out growing cropsRestoring forests is helpful, but planting crops to do so is not. Only one of these options soaks up enough atmospheric carbon.
Food & Agriculture Opinion
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How has the World Bank dispossessed the rural poor?– The global financial institution has advocated for reforms that favour agribusiness and ignore peasants and indigenous peoples whose livelihoods depend on traditional land use. -
As fall armyworms invade Asia, we need more than chemical warfare from Big Agri– Pesticide use saves about 30 to 50 per cent of food that would have been lost to insects and diseases, but it comes with a cost to consumer health. Is there a safer alternative? Buyung Hadi discusses. -
The future of agriculture lies in smart farming– Technology is radically transforming the nature of farming, combining the use of digital tools and automated machines to help farmers increase productivity and reduce the use of pesticides. So what does the future of agriculture look like as the digital revolution unfolds?
Food & Agriculture Videos
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What is it like being a woman working in palm oil?– In an industry dominated by men, what can a palm oil company do to ensure gender equality?
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More than a nature series, Netflix's Our Planet is a call to action– Narrated by renowned environmentalist David Attenborough, Netflix's latest documentary series is a stunning insight into the world of animals and an urgent plea to protect their fast disappearing habitats.
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Mission Impossible: Satisfying Asia's meat appetite with plant-based food?– Can Impossible Foods, the plant-based food tech company from California, take a bite out of Asia's growing appetite for meat? Eco-Business spoke to founder Pat Brown to find out.
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This anti-palm oil ad for a British supermarket just got banned– The ad, which was made by Greenpeace and rebadged by Iceland, was blocked from airing on television by the UK's ad watchdog because it broke rules on political advertising. Iceland says it is not anti-palm oil, 'we are anti-deforestation.'
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