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Berita / Bandar-bandar

Restoring wildlife to oil palm landscapes

...smallholders and is frequently done illegally. “That’s why it’s important to have a project on the ground taking care of an area. Otherwise, they just sneak in and start clearing,” he adds. Model for ...

23 Feb 2023

Restoring wildlife to oil palm landscapes

Joseph D'Cruz, chief executive, Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO)

Berita / Makanan & Pertanian

RSPO CEO Joseph D'Cruz: we need to get better at telling the sustainable palm oil story

...smallholders; building a sector that provides sustainability for these smallholders is a huge opportunity and an important challenge. What about the big markets, India — the world's biggest consumer o...

20 Jun 2022

RSPO CEO Joseph D'Cruz: we need to get better at telling the sustainable palm oil story

Press Releases / Royal Golden Eagle

RGE closes inaugural US$550 million sustainability-linked derivative with MUFG

Royal Golden Eagle (RGE), a global group of resource-based manufacturing companies, has announced that its member company Apical Group (Apical), a global leading processor of vegetable oil, has closed...

6 Feb 2023

RGE closes inaugural US$550 million sustainability-linked derivative with MUFG

Berita / Makanan & Pertanian

Bayer appoints Cherie Tan from APR to lead sustainability in Asia Pacific

German agrochemicals firm Bayer has appointed Cherie Tan from Asia Pacific Rayon (APR) to lead the company's sustainability, public affairs and science function in Asia Pacific. She joins a company wi...

23 Feb 2022

Bayer appoints Cherie Tan from APR to lead sustainability in Asia Pacific

Berita / Air

Bangladesh’s rice farmers tap underground ‘reservoirs’

The pumping up of groundwater by Bangladesh’s 16 million smallholder farmers has led to a massive storage capture of underground reservoirs rivalling the storage capacity of the world’s large dams, ac...

4 Oct 2022

Bangladesh’s rice farmers tap underground ‘reservoirs’

Berita / Makanan & Pertanian

Q&A: The evolving debate about using genetically modified crops in a warming world

These “genetically modified organisms” (GMOs) are planted extensively across swathes of North and South America, in particular, but remain strictly limited in many countries. However, these stringent ...

7 Jun 2024

Q&A: The evolving debate about using genetically modified crops in a warming world

Berita / Makanan & Pertanian

Palm oil audit hopes to clean up ‘very dirty’ Indonesian industry

...Smallholders’ plantations are bought by middle-sized companies, for instance. And then these are bought by the large ones,” he said during a recent press conference. Ukay cited data from the KPPU show...

30 Jun 2022

Palm oil audit hopes to clean up ‘very dirty’ Indonesian industry

Press Releases / International Institute for Sustainable Development

Sustainable cotton sector continues to grow, bring farmers higher incomes

Consumers and companies across the planet are increasingly choosing cotton produced in accordance with voluntary sustainability standards (VSSs) such as Better Cotton or Cotton made in Afric...

16 Jan 2023

Sustainable cotton sector continues to grow, bring farmers higher incomes

Berita / Makanan & Pertanian

Indonesia's cassava push leaves bitter taste in Borneo rainforest

The stream that supplied Indah Lestari's family with fresh fish has dwindled to a trickle since rainforest surrounding her farm was cleared by Indonesian soldiers - leaving behind a barren and eerie ...

28 Jul 2023

Indonesia's cassava push leaves bitter taste in Borneo rainforest

Berita / Karbon & Cuaca

What are chief sustainability officers prioritising in 2024?

As the “alphabet soup” of reporting standards shows signs of consolidating with the launch of the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB)’s standards last year, chief sustainability office...

28 Feb 2024

What are chief sustainability officers prioritising in 2024?

Berita / Polisi & Kewangan

Land mismanagement lands communities near Malaysia's Gunung Inas in deep water

...Smallholders Development Authority (RISDA), 98 hectares of rubber plantations have been damaged as well, jeopardising the livelihoods of 140 local smallholders. Though longtime residents of nearby Ka...

26 Jul 2022

Land mismanagement lands communities near Malaysia's Gunung Inas in deep water

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?

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Malaysia’s chip boom risks soaring Scope 2 emissions, experts warn

Studio EB At the Semiconductor Sustainability Summit 2025, industry leaders said Malaysia’s push to double its global chip share could …
Pendapat / Makanan & Pertanian

India’s food waste is turning into an environmental time bomb

India’s colossal food waste problem is both a symptom and a significant accelerator of the climate crisis.
Berita / Tenaga

Singapore’s Sembcorp eyes $4.3bn acquisition of Australia’s Alinta Energy

The Singapore firm has said it would buy the Chow Tai Fook Enterprises-owned firm, but there are no …
Berita / Karbon & Cuaca

Singapore dominates Southeast Asia’s green startup landscape, report finds

New mapping of climate firms shows region rich in solutions but constrained by grids, finance and coordination.
Pendapat / Karbon & Cuaca

Three reasons why China wants global green leadership after COP30

China wants to lead the climate agenda on its own terms – exporting clean tech and influence, while …
Berita / Polisi & Kewangan

Climate change in court: cases to watch in 2026

Lawsuits are reshaping climate justice following landmark 2025 rulings, with cases rising in the Global South.

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