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Perpetual haze? Sustained pressure on peatlands will mean no end to Indonesia's forest fires, warns report

A dangerous combination of the development of industrial palm oil and pulpwood plantations on Indonesia's carbon-rich peatlands, and weakened regulations to protect peat, means that annual toxic...

22 Nov 2019

Perpetual haze? Sustained pressure on peatlands will mean no end to Indonesia's forest fires, warns report

Berita / Makanan & Pertanian

'Nobel for food' winner tells ailing world to eat more veg

...smallholders in Asia miss out on new, resilient seeds that could improve yields in the face of climate change, according to the Netherlands-based Access to Seeds Foundation. Seeds for diversity Diver...

11 Jun 2019

'Nobel for food' winner tells ailing world to eat more veg

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Want to save the planet? Move to Wales

Fighting climate change is much more than a day job for Chris Vernon and Erica Thompson. It is their entire way of life. They are part of a groundbreaking Welsh government scheme under which people ge...

23 Oct 2018

Want to save the planet? Move to Wales

Berita / Makanan & Pertanian

Big brands sourcing illegal palm oil from habitat of orangutans, rhinos, elephants and tigers: study

...smallholders and, like GAR, is aiming for full traceability by the end of 2020. Both Musim Mas and GAR are members of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), the industry certifier for palm oi...

1 Oct 2019

Big brands sourcing illegal palm oil from habitat of orangutans, rhinos, elephants and tigers: study

Berita / Makanan & Pertanian

Are small farmers ready as Indonesia looks to impose its palm oil sustainability standard on all?

...smallholders by 2020. The need to do so will only grow more urgent as the number of such operators continues to increase, expanding their share of Indonesia’s oil palm plantation area to 60 percent by...

16 Apr 2018

Are small farmers ready as Indonesia looks to impose its palm oil sustainability standard on all?

Berita / Makanan & Pertanian

Haze from forest fires, Indonesia’s national ‘embarrassment’, is back

Three years after forest fires in Indonesia sent huge volumes of smoke billowing into Malaysia and Singapore, the Southeast Asian neighbors are dealing with a repeat of the “embarrassing” transboundar...

8 Aug 2019

Haze from forest fires, Indonesia’s national ‘embarrassment’, is back

Berita / Karbon & Cuaca

Innovation rush aims to help farmers, rich and poor, beat climate change

In decades to come, African farmers may pool their money to buy small robot vehicles to weed their fields or drones that can hover to squirt a few drops of pesticide only where needed. Smartphones alr...

29 Jul 2019

Innovation rush aims to help farmers, rich and poor, beat climate change

Berita / Polisi & Kewangan

Land bill at centre of unrest in Indonesia

In late September, international news outlets caught flak for their coverage of Indonesia’s largest mass protests since the 1998 uprising that led to the fall of the dictator Suharto. Headlines publis...

4 Nov 2019

Land bill at centre of unrest in Indonesia

Berita / Makanan & Pertanian

Experts question wisdom that more food means less hunger

...smallholders. But we really need to question that," said Adrian Martin, a professor at Britain's University of East Anglia. One in nine people already do not have enough food and the world population ...

21 Jun 2018

Experts question wisdom that more food means less hunger

Berita / Makanan & Pertanian

Indonesia’s sustainable districts bet on corporate deforestation pledges

...smallholders in particular, some sort of assurances that their efforts will be rewarded.” Coming together When Hernedi met Syahrani in 2016, she was working as the World Resources Institute’s (WRI) Su...

12 Nov 2018

Indonesia’s sustainable districts bet on corporate deforestation pledges

Berita / Polisi & Kewangan

India promotes South-South cooperation, but key questions unaddressed

As the second week of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) Conference of Parties (COP) kicked off in Delhi, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi highlighted South-South cooperation and i...

10 Sep 2019

India promotes South-South cooperation, but key questions unaddressed

workers in oil palm plantation in Malaysia

Berita / Polisi & Kewangan

Malaysian smallholders accuse EU of discrimination on palm oil ban

...smallholders claimed that the planned ban on palm oil will threaten 650,000 farmers and over 3.2 million Malaysians who depend on the palm oil industry for their livelihoods. The ire from Malaysian fa...

25 Jan 2018

Malaysian smallholders accuse EU of discrimination on palm oil ban

Loose palm oil fruit on the estate of PT AMNL, West Kalimantan, Indonesia

Berita / Makanan & Pertanian

Europe's palm oil ban has no basis, says Sinar Mas boss Franky Widjaja

...smallholders about sustainable farming practices. Smallholders produce 40 per cent of the US$66 billion industry’s oil, but are held back by what Widjaja calls "very old" farming practices. Among them...

28 Feb 2018

Europe's palm oil ban has no basis, says Sinar Mas boss Franky Widjaja

46 year-old former bank manager and mother of two Pornsiri Raknukul now runs her own RSPO-certified palm oil plantation in Southern Thailand. Image: RSPO

Berita / Makanan & Pertanian

What does sustainable palm oil mean to smallholders?

...smallholders produce 40 per cent of the US$66 billion industry’s oil, but only 14.5 per cent of the world’s sustainable palm oil. The potential for smallholders to grow palm oil in ways that avoid the...

30 Jan 2018

What does sustainable palm oil mean to smallholders?

Berita / Polisi & Kewangan

Indonesian candidates find common ground in support for palm oil

...smallholders’ share of the country’s palm plantations, which stands at about 40 per cent of the 120,000 square kilometres of planted palm estates, according to government data. But there’s a high degr...

22 Feb 2019

Indonesian candidates find common ground in support for palm oil

Pendapat / Gaya Hidup

Sustainable shopping: save the world, one chocolate at a time

...smallholders, especially in the Pacific region, simply do not use agrochemicals. It’s also more likely to be grown in heavily rainforested areas, with almost zero water footprint. “ With a bit of att...

2 Apr 2018

Sustainable shopping: save the world, one chocolate at a time

Berita / Karbon & Cuaca

24 hours for more sustainable todays and tomorrows

From sustainable landscape restoration that mitigates climate change, to tenure security and innovative financing tools, to climate-smart lifestyle changes, the agenda is wide and deep for an upcoming...

3 May 2019

24 hours for more sustainable todays and tomorrows

Berita / Makanan & Pertanian

Bitter aftertaste? Food companies could face costly disputes over land in Africa

Food companies doing business in Africa risk becoming bogged down in decades-long legal disputes over land that could cost tens of millions of dollars, according to a report released on Monday. From s...

26 Feb 2019

Bitter aftertaste? Food companies could face costly disputes over land in Africa

Berita / Air

Poor people's right to water cut off by thirsty exports, unequal supply

Yogita has to fetch water up to six times a day - sometimes going out in the middle of the night - from a hand pump about half a kilometre from her house in India's Madhya Pradesh state, leaving her b...

20 Mar 2019

Poor people's right to water cut off by thirsty exports, unequal supply

An Australian wheat field, by James Edwards/Wheat Initiative, CC BY-SA 2.0

Berita / Makanan & Pertanian

Grain on the blockchain: how digital supply chains are greening agriculture

...smallholders, pigs represent their livelihoods, says Ohlsson. "They’re used to pay dowries, for financial security. They're incredibly valuable and well taken care of, but that value is reflected by t...

10 May 2019

Grain on the blockchain: how digital supply chains are greening agriculture

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Circular textiles startup refuses clothing ‘donations’ from ultra fast-fashion brand

Eksklusif Singapore-based circular clothing enterprise Cloop said it does not want to encourage dumping of cheap clothing that cannot …
Berita / Karbon & Cuaca

Singapore launches coalition to boost demand for high-integrity carbon credits

New Singapore-based initiative aims to aggregate demand for high-integrity carbon credits and unlock financing for early-stage climate projects …
Berita / Tenaga

How the Philippines is preparing its nuclear workforce for a revival

As nuclear energy returns, the government, universities and companies are training the next generation of engineers to operate …
Berita / Tanggugjwab Sosial Korporat

As sustainability retreats, Singapore youths face a green jobs reality check

At a youth festival in Singapore, students and young eco-preneurs discussed the state of the green jobs market …
Berita / Karbon & Cuaca

Singapore lays out plan to close $700 billion nature-finance gap as Asia’s TNFD pioneers show disclosures can move capital

The world is spending only about US$200 billion a year on nature-based solutions, against an estimated US$700 billion …
Berita / Karbon & Cuaca

Temasek cannot meet 2030 emissions targets, dragged by aviation, energy sectors: CEO

The fund maintained its goal of reaching net zero by 2050 but cited volatile global markets and higher …

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