#poverty Berita
Pangan & Agrikultur
Farmers ambivalent over Vietnam’s low-carbon rice programme
A World Bank-backed project has been criticised by rice farmers for high costs and poor returns. Can its proposed second phase salvage things?
One of the most dangerous countries for environmental defenders, the Philippines is seeing a concerning fall in interest for forestry training.
Typhoon Haiyan's devastation created the conditions for human trafficking in Tacloban, where online exploitation is a new threat.
Companies and other entities are buying 'plastic credits' allowing them to offset every ton of plastic they make with an equivalent amount of plastic waste collected and taken out of the environment elsewhere — often in poor nations lacking waste management programs.
Kebijakan & Keuangan
Bangladesh climate envoy: ‘We want to be climate adaptation leaders, not victims’
#poverty Opini
Karbon & Iklim
Gender justice is climate justice
If global leaders are committed to a green transition that leaves no one behind, they must address the needs of vulnerable women and girls in developing countries, who bear the brunt of climate change at the upcoming COP28 summit.
Kebijakan & Keuangan
Rosy unemployment rates mask a grim reality
Recovery is being led by high-income countries, with low-income countries lagging far behind, worsening the global employment divide.
Pangan & Agrikultur
The hunger profiteers
It is hard to predict when exactly food prices will spike again, but there is little doubt that more shocks will come. The consequences are likely to be compounded if a few companies still hold inordinate power over the world’s food systems.
A new global platform harnessing AI and machine-learning could quickly identify renewables infrastructure projects worth US$2 trillion.
Pangan & Agrikultur
A human rights approach to the global food crisis
Kebijakan & Keuangan
We need creative solutions to the sovereign debt and climate crises
Kebijakan & Keuangan
The role of voluntary business initiatives in an era of political fragmentation
Kebijakan & Keuangan
Tax the rich to save the planet
#poverty Video
Launched as policymakers lock horns with petrochemicals lobbyists over a treaty to end plastic pollution, the documentary produced by Eco-Business asks why opportunities to solve humanity's waste crisis are being wasted. It will premiere in Singapore and screen on the sidelines of the upcoming COP28 climate summit.
Kebijakan & Keuangan
‘No income, insufficient aid’ for Oriental Mindoro fisherfolk after oil spill: Research group
A coalition of scientists and environmentalists found “widespread economic impacts” for communities in the Philippine province, heightening calls for accountability from the sunken tanker reportedly chartered by a San Miguel Corp subsidiary.
After 20 years without electricity, more than 50 households in Cebu's poorest district have been provided with solar energy, financed by carbon offsets.
Southeast Asia's largest energy consumer has been slow to transition to renewables, but recent policies point to greater expansion of the country's solar, tidal and geothermal energy production.
#poverty Podcasts
Kebijakan & Keuangan
‘Never give in to fear’: Nobel peace prize nominee and Filipino Indigenous leader Vicky Tauli Corpuz
In celebration of Indigenous Peoples' month in the Philippines, the former United Nations special rapporteur tells the Eco-Business Podcast about her lifelong work to empower communities in Asia’s most dangerous country for environmental defenders.
#poverty Rilis Pers
Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)
UN forum underscores need for collaborative action to ensure crisis resilient urban futures
United Nations Development Programme
25 countries halved multidimensional poverty within 15 years, but 1.1 billion remain poor
Asian Development Bank
ADB: Philippine economy to post robust growth in 2023, 2024 despite inflation pressures
International Finance Corporation
IFC, Singapore’s Agrocorp partner to improve food security in Bangladesh
International Association for Agricultural Sustainability
Agriculture and Halal literacy to the surface: Helping agriculture grow to new heights
