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27 February 2017

Mighty Earth, Olam, and World Resources Institute today announced an important breakthrough agreement to protect forests, great ape habitat, and local communities in Africa and Asia.

Food & Agriculture

Olam pledges to stop clearing forest in Gabon for a year after NGO pressure

8 February 2017

oil palm plantation in east kalimantan

Food & Agriculture

RSPO rules on community complaint against Wilmar unit

21 December 2016

Dayak mothers

Food & Agriculture

Study maps 187 land conflicts as palm oil expands in Kalimantan

3 November 2016

Papua Indonesia

Food & Agriculture

Complaint against a palm oil company in Papua held in limbo by RSPO

27 October 2016

salween

Water

Southeast Asia’s last major undammed river in crisis

4 October 2016

Dharavai entrance

Cities

Slum dwellers squeezed out of India's ambitious Smart Cities plan, activists say

3 October 2016

Rice varieties Sri Lanka

Food & Agriculture

Purple rice, hairless apricots to get boost under mountain label scheme

27 September 2016

cameron highlands

Policy & Finance

Global land rush enters "more dangerous stage", says anti-poverty group

5 September 2016

palm oil worker malaysia selangor

Food & Agriculture

Planet is paying for palm oil profits

Cenote Mexico sink hole

Carbon & Climate

History warns of drought’s destructive force

2 September 2016

Tata Nano

Transport

India's top court calls land deal for Tata Motors factory a 'farce'

1 September 2016

papua korindo hauls logs

Food & Agriculture

Burning Paradise: Korindo accused of destroying Indonesia's last forests

30 August 2016

A cargo ship under The Bridge of the Americas

Transport

China’s trans-Amazon railway stokes forest fears

24 August 2016

life in thar desert

Energy

Pakistan’s coal expansion brings misery to villagers in Thar desert

5 August 2016

Guarani Kaoiwa tribe man

Food & Agriculture

Olympics begins amid rising violence against Brazil’s indigenous people

18 July 2016

Sarawak Borneo

Food & Agriculture

Malaysia land rights activist murder suspects charged in court

6 June 2016

indigenous community in papua indonesia

Food & Agriculture

Indonesia’s Salim Group linked to ‘secret’ palm oil concessions in West Papua

24 May 2016

palm oil farmer

Food & Agriculture

Indonesia’s forestry ministry follows through on palm oil permit freeze

18 May 2016

village boy

Food & Agriculture

Indigenous Dayak tribe pitted against palm oil giant in new film

4 May 2016

3gorgesdam yangtse

Energy

Are mega dams a solution or burden to climate change?

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