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workers in oil palm plantation in Malaysia

Berita / Pangan & Agrikultur

Buy green palm oil or forests will suffer, industry warns

...smallholders achieve no deforestation by 2020, Ware added. The new RSPO rules run the risk of alienating smaller-scale palm oil producers, many of whom are already struggling to meet the old standards...

27 Nov 2018

Buy green palm oil or forests will suffer, industry warns

Berita / Kebijakan & Keuangan

The coffee farmers betting on blockchain to boost business

On a bustling street near the shiny new international airport in Ethiopia's capital is a small coffee roastery with big dreams. Nearly 40 Ethiopians—a third of them women—sift, roast and package prize...

21 Feb 2019

The coffee farmers betting on blockchain to boost business

Opini / Bangunan Ramah

Bamboo: Nature’s forgotten solution for green industry

...smallholders and policymakers. Speaking at a conference of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification, Paola Agostini of the World Bank summarised the problem: “I am convinced about bamboo, but we st...

18 Feb 2019

Bamboo: Nature’s forgotten solution for green industry

Berita / Pangan & Agrikultur

Why is it so hard to sell sustainable palm oil?

...smallholders. What options will a boycott leave them with? They can’t grow anything else, because of the density of palm oil cultivation. Their other option is either to burn that palm oil off, or mov...

5 Nov 2018

Why is it so hard to sell sustainable palm oil?

Berita / Pangan & Agrikultur

Cash is best when tackling hunger caused by drought - study

Cash handouts are the best way to support smallholder farmers struggling due to drought, but for farmers experiencing wetter weather, agricultural inputs such as fertilisers and pesticides help most, ...

29 Nov 2017

Cash is best when tackling hunger caused by drought - study

Berita / Pangan & Agrikultur

Olam introduces new tool for more transparent supply chains

Food manufacturers may soon be able to tell consumers exactly which farm their cashew nuts were grown in, with the help of a new traceability tool developed by Olam International for its clients. Unv...

19 Apr 2018

Olam introduces new tool for more transparent supply chains

Berita / Karbon & Iklim

Vietnam’s new conservation plan prioritises trees and people, but not emissions

For nearly a decade now, Vietnam has made “payment for forest ecosystem services” its key strategy for protecting forests and improving the lives of poor rural communities. Now, it plans to use the sa...

13 Mar 2020

Vietnam’s new conservation plan prioritises trees and people, but not emissions

Opini / Pangan & Agrikultur

Chocolate’s sustainability challenge

In the 1970s and 1980s, when multinational firms first linked sustainability to business success, the chief catalyst was vulnerability, not altruism. Consumer pressure, political boycotts, and costly ...

3 Mei 2018

Chocolate’s sustainability challenge

A farmer inspects his crops in a drought-stricken farm land.

Opini / Pangan & Agrikultur

Why the next Tesla should take on agriculture

...smallholders’ incomes in the face of climate-related losses based on a weather-related index. With two billion smallholders bearing the brunt of billions of dollars of climate-related disasters, it re...

3 Nov 2017

Why the next Tesla should take on agriculture

A crop cutting experiment conducted on a sample zero budget natural farming field in Andra Pradesh, India. Image: Sustainable India Finance Facility

Opini / Pangan & Agrikultur

In soil-stressed India, it's time to swap chemical pesticides for natural farming

India's green revolution, a period from 1960s onwards that advocated the use of chemical fertilisers and pesticides to boost agriculture and food security, was useful in its time. But the time for a d...

8 Feb 2019

In soil-stressed India, it's time to swap chemical pesticides for natural farming

Berita / Pangan & Agrikultur

Is certification enough to protect Southeast Asia's forests?

There is no questioning the value that certification could bring to agroforestry, a sector lumbered with a range of issues from the abuse of indigenous people's rights and deforestation, to biodiversi...

9 Mei 2018

Is certification enough to protect Southeast Asia's forests?

Opini / Pangan & Agrikultur

Pushing GMS food up the value chain

...smallholders are also becoming better at reaching out to regional and global markets. Connectivity to international markets expands the income pathways of small farmers. Agricultural and food trade in...

4 Jan 2018

Pushing GMS food up the value chain

Berita / Pangan & Agrikultur

Pushing Vietnam’s shrimp industry in the direction of sustainability

...Smallholders turn slowly to integrated farming Faced with a rapidly deteriorating Mekong region and the challenge of working with thousands of small farmers like Hung and Le, Vietnamese authorities an...

20 Jul 2018

Pushing Vietnam’s shrimp industry in the direction of sustainability

Dawn on the border of the Juma Reserve in the Brazilian Amazon

Opini / Karbon & Iklim

The bleak fate of the Amazon

Last month, a deeply divided Brazil voted to elect its next president. Faced with a choice between Fernando Haddad of the leftist Workers’ Party and the right-wing extremist Jair Bolsonaro, Brazilians...

22 Nov 2018

The bleak fate of the Amazon

Berita / Pangan & Agrikultur

Intensified farming ‘rarely’ aids wellbeing, environment

...smallholders in the cases studied often struggle to move from subsistence to commercial farming, and the challenges involved are not currently well reflected in many intensification strategies. Phil D...

17 Jul 2018

Intensified farming ‘rarely’ aids wellbeing, environment

The women of Tongaradha village in Bangladesh

Opini / Karbon & Iklim

The power of rural women to reduce global food insecurity and cut emissions

My village, Tajpur, in the Lalmonirhat district of northern Bangladesh is very green and beautiful. It sits beside the river Tista and most of our community members work in agriculture. The area is pr...

18 Okt 2018

The power of rural women to reduce global food insecurity and cut emissions

Opini / Karbon & Iklim

10 biggest changes of the decade for forests

The last decade was pivotal for the world’s forests. The 2010s saw the rise of unprecedented new commitments — from governments and the private sector alike — to bring deforestation to heel. The UN RE...

20 Jan 2020

10 biggest changes of the decade for forests

Berita / Kebijakan & Keuangan

$1 billion programme launched to restore land, protect forests

Dutch bank Rabobank and U.N. Environment have announced a $1 billion programme to finance new ways of farming that curb emissions, restore the land and protect forests. Agriculture produces about 24 p...

20 Okt 2017

$1 billion programme launched to restore land, protect forests

Opini / Lingkungan

In the world of sustainability, colonialism is not dead

Last week, Scandinavian fashion label and global It-brand Ganni hardly caused a stir when it closed Copenhagen Fashion Week with a sustainability-themed showcase titled “Life on Earth.” Considering th...

13 Feb 2019

In the world of sustainability, colonialism is not dead

Berita / Kebijakan & Keuangan

Conservation entrepreneurs are ready to get down to business. Watch their pitches here.

Business is booming in the arena of “nature-based” companies, which includes ventures ranging from ecological restoration companies to ecotourism to sustainable commodity production. One study estimat...

20 Agu 2018

Conservation entrepreneurs are ready to get down to business. Watch their pitches here.

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