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Aerial view of deforestation on peatland for palm oil plantation Indonesia

Berita / Makanan & Pertanian

Indonesian government rejects proposal to reclassify oil palm estates as forests

...smallholders establishing oil palm plantations inside forest areas. The government estimates there are 3.37 million hectares (8.33 million acres) of oil palm plantations currently operating illegally ...

11 Feb 2022

Indonesian government rejects proposal to reclassify oil palm estates as forests

Pendapat / Gaya Hidup

Café culture and sustainable development in Southeast Asia

...smallholders who often receive low prices for their produce. Coffee roasters and international traders, in contrast, dominate the global coffee commodity chain and capture significant shares of the pr...

6 Dec 2022

Café culture and sustainable development in Southeast Asia

Pendapat / Polisi & Kewangan

Obstacles to decarbonisation in Southeast Asia

From politicians’ speeches to policy documents and media reports, the terms "low-carbon", "net-zero", "carbon neutral", and "decarbonisation" have been making their way into climate discussions in Sou...

12 Apr 2023

Obstacles to decarbonisation in Southeast Asia

A smallholder palm oil farmer in Indonesia

Berita / Makanan & Pertanian

Incentivising sustainability: Training smallholders to grow sustainable palm oil

...smallholders’ needs. Nicholls stressed: “Any effort to boost smallholders’ sustainability must also improve their livelihoods. We must treat smallholders as operating businesses.” “Smallholders are ke...

18 Jun 2021

Incentivising sustainability: Training smallholders to grow sustainable palm oil

Berita / Makanan & Pertanian

Asian banks are failing women in agribusiness: study

...smallholders into the investment portfolio would also foster competition. “It also benefits governments when the invisible market or informal markets are better seen by government agencies when they c...

8 Mar 2022

Asian banks are failing women in agribusiness: study

Press Releases / WasteX

WasteX to help SE Asia’s producers convert waste into higher-value products that fight climate change

...smallholders and large producers, and unlock 3-5x more value for them,” said Pawel Kuznicki, the Founder and CEO of WasteX. He added: “WasteX would not have been possible without the rigo...

2 Sep 2022

WasteX to help SE Asia’s producers convert waste into higher-value products that fight climate change

Berita / Makanan & Pertanian

Former RSPO CEO Beverley Postma appointed to lead Grow Asia

...smallholders in Asia, Africa and Latin America to improve the nutrition of staple crops, and held senior corporate affairs and marketing roles with Kellogg’s and Syngenta. She was also executive direc...

8 Nov 2021

Former RSPO CEO Beverley Postma appointed to lead Grow Asia

Rainforest in Papua province, Indonesia.

Berita / Polisi & Kewangan

Indonesia’s forest-clearing moratorium underdelivered — but so did donors

...smallholders involved in logging and oil palm cultivation. These smallholders contributed one-fifth of Indonesia’s forest loss between 2001 and 2016. A 2020 study found that a cash transfer program fo...

17 Mar 2022

Indonesia’s forest-clearing moratorium underdelivered — but so did donors

Pendapat / Makanan & Pertanian

How does climate change threaten global food production?

...smallholders that tend to be overlooked by major crop breeding companies. But with the rising likelihood of concurrent weather extremes, local farming adaptation is only half the solution. If the bal...

6 Feb 2023

How does climate change threaten global food production?

Berita / Pembuatan

Chinese standard tries to kickstart a sustainable rubber revolution

...smallholders. Talking with representatives from Southeast Asia at the 2019 Global Rubber Conference showed Sun Lihui and Zhang Junzuo that they should work with the smallholders of the Mekong basin, i...

4 May 2022

Chinese standard tries to kickstart a sustainable rubber revolution

Berita / Makanan & Pertanian

Food early warning systems can stave off famines

...Smallholders and Agribusiness (CASA) Programme. The study notes that lessons from the Ukraine conflict — which highlights that unforeseen crises in key staple food production areas can rapidly lead to...

2 Dec 2022

Food early warning systems can stave off famines

Berita / Makanan & Pertanian

Amid frenzied competition in alternative protein sector, hemp-based meat startup claims soy gives men 'man boobs'

...smallholders and Global North farmer and food processing workers from the conservation about how to reshape food systems. "We are seeing a massive shift in investments and innovations around alternati...

13 May 2022

Amid frenzied competition in alternative protein sector, hemp-based meat startup claims soy gives men 'man boobs'

Musim Mas and IFC have engaged smallholder farmers in sustainable cultivation practices.

Berita / Makanan & Pertanian

Can a palm oil company have social impact?

...smallholders is more than 20 per cent higher than the average yield for smallholders in Indonesia. 1,733 scheme smallholders have achieved RSPO certification, covering 3,494 ha of land. 74 villages en...

22 Jul 2021

Can a palm oil company have social impact?

Berita / Makanan & Pertanian

Small price increase in palm oil based products could save forests: Report

...smallholders claim none of the profits (see chart). Profit distribution in the palm oil value chain. Source: Chain Reaction Research Smallholders, which generate six per cent of the palm oil market...

15 Jun 2021

Small price increase in palm oil based products could save forests: Report

Berita / Makanan & Pertanian

Who gets to define sustainable palm oil?

...smallholders remain the most challenging segment. Smallholders (both organised and independent) only account for about 22 per cent of all certified planted areas, while they cultivate nearly 40 per ce...

8 Jun 2021

Who gets to define sustainable palm oil?

Press Releases / International Fund for Agricultural Development

Sri Lanka and IFAD partner to reduce poverty and increase food and nutrition security in the face of climate change

...smallholders have to buy food for to eat – which leads to more debt and further hinders their ability to cope with climate risks. The six-year project will mobilise climate-sensitive investment...

16 Jun 2021

Sri Lanka and IFAD partner to reduce poverty and increase food and nutrition security in the face of climate change

deforestation for palm oil on peatland in Central Kalimantan, Borneo, Indonesia

Berita / Makanan & Pertanian

Indonesian palm oil faces risk of stranded assets due to climate action

...smallholders, could be stranded assets by 2040, as efforts to end tropical deforestation ramp-up in a bid to comply with the Paris Agreement to slash carbon emissions to stave off climate change. Indo...

30 Aug 2021

Indonesian palm oil faces risk of stranded assets due to climate action

Lunch break at a sustainability event at Marina Bay Sands in Singapore.

Berita / Pengangkutan

The climate cost of post-Covid revenge event-going

The average international conference attendee produces about half the carbon dioxide that the average person emits in an entire year just by attending a single event. With Covid-19 pandemic travel res...

27 Mar 2023

The climate cost of post-Covid revenge event-going

Men in Assam, India, preparing flood defences.

Pendapat / Karbon & Cuaca

Voluntary carbon markets: a misunderstood climate solution

...smallholders in South Asia, farmers whose entire year's family income is less than US$300. We help create value chains for them (warehousing, access to credit, market linkages, and so on). We work wit...

30 Jan 2023

Voluntary carbon markets: a misunderstood climate solution

Satellite imagery of logging in Cambodia

Berita / Karbon & Cuaca

Protecting the planet with all-seeing eyes in space

A constellation of tiny satellites in space could now be monitoring the daily movements of illegal loggers, and the health of acres of pristine rainforest. In another continent, governments could be r...

2 Jun 2022

Protecting the planet with all-seeing eyes in space

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Musim Mas stalwart Carolyn Lim joins palm oil rival Golden Agri-Resources

Lim has joined GAR to lead sustainability operations. Rob Nicholls has also left Musim Mas after several years …
Berita / Pengangkutan & Logistik

Prices of Asia-Pacific’s fertilisers, petrochemicals set to surge on Iran war: ADB

The war's economic impact extends beyond oil production to include global food and industrial supply chains, as fertiliser …
Pendapat / Air

Iran’s water weapon against the Gulf

While the rest of the world is mainly concerned about the energy disruptions caused by the Iran war, …
Berita / Karbon & Cuaca

Eight global climate tech start-ups to vie for S$4M in funding at The Liveability Challenge 2026

Ideas to keep cities cool and slash emissions were shortlisted in a record-breaking year for entries.
Berita / Tenaga

Renewables shift needed as Iran war exposes Asia’s fragile energy market: experts

As oil and gas firms reap windfall profits from wartime price spikes, regional climate advocates urge governments to …
Pendapat / Makanan & Pertanian

Securing Asean’s food resilience amid the Middle East conflict

The Middle East conflict will have a double-whammy impact on Asean’s fertiliser imports and energy-intensive fertiliser production. The …

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