Food & Agriculture News
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Chinese demand wiping out forests in the Solomon IslandsA new report calls on China to require its companies to verify that the timber they import comes from sustainable and legal sources as 80 per cent of the Solomons’ log exports go to the Asian superpower. -
Could an app to find clean drinking water kill single-use plastic bottles?An American entrepreneur believes the Tap app could beat plastic pollution by making clean drinking water easier to find.
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Biofuel-friendly trees may boost landscape restoration efforts in IndonesiaScientists have found a tree species that could provide energy, food security while simultaneously restoring land in Indonesia's degraded peatlands. -
Plastic found in human faecesA study of human excreta around the world confirms that plastic has entered the human food chain.
Food & Agriculture Opinion
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When agricultural workers go hungry– The story of our food is much more than a combination of nutritional values, costs, and tastes; it is also a tale of globalization, poverty, and exploitation. If we consider how little has been done to protect the world’s agricultural workforce, what we eat should make us feel sick. -
The power of rural women to reduce global food insecurity and cut emissions– Bangladeshi smallholder and women’s leader, Santona, shares her story to mark International Day of Rural Women. -
Why we can't reverse climate change with 'negative emissions' technologies– Negative emissions technologies must be shown to work on a gigaton scale, at an affordable cost, and without serious environmental impacts—do they? MIT's Howard Herzog investigates.
Food & Agriculture Videos
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Expansion of oil palm plantations into forests appears to be changing local diets in Indonesia
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Expansion of oil palm plantations into forests appears to be changing local diets in Indonesia
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Don't be spectators: UNDP boss calls on corporates to act on climate– The IPCC's climate warning is an opportunity for the business world to show leadership, said UNDP's Achim Steiner in the opening speech at the Responsible Business Forum in Singapore.
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Protecting the ‘wild and difficult’ forests of Sumatra– The sea of green on the Kampar Peninsula is one of last large intact lowland peatland forests of Sumatra. Five years ago, Restorasi Ekosistem Riau was established to ensure the biodiversity and the livelihoods it supports are protected and restored.
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Nepal’s fertile but forgotten wetlands– Undervalued and ignored, wetlands are disappearing and drying up in Nepal—leaving the communities and wildlife that depend on them exposed in a changing climate.
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