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A 2010 packaging law stipulated that 19 essential items must be contained and transported in jute sacks, but the legislation failed to protect the jute industry, which employs three million households.
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SBTi seeks Southeast Asia input on revised climate standard for forest, land and agriculture
The climate standards body says the consultation gives Southeast Asian firms — key players in global agricultural and land-use supply chains — a chance to help shape the second version of its Forest, Land and Agriculture (FLAG) Standard to guide companies in setting science-based targets for land-based emissions and removals.
From Indigenous embroidery to community murals and heirloom seeds, artists and cultural workers in UNESCO Creative City Iloilo are stitching tradition into climate resilience.
Food & Agriculture
Vietnam’s coffee boom rooted in decades of deforestation: report
New research links decades of coffee expansion to widespread forest loss in Vietnam's Central Highlands, raising concerns over the crop's long-term resilience.
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Heat and pests threaten gourd essential to Indian music
3 July 2026
Food & Agriculture
This Philippine coastal farm is redefining farming with wetlands
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Carbon & Climate
Planned LNG plant sparks water concerns among Thai farmers
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Food & Agriculture
Cambodia’s Indigenous communities say they are barred from sacred sites
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Food & Agriculture
Nepal farmers struggle as wildlife damage relief proves hard to access
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Food & Agriculture
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Food & Agriculture
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