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Food & Agriculture

How Asean can reduce its heavy dependence on imported agricultural inputs

Asean should enhance efficiency of fertiliser application, increase local fertiliser production, and fortify policies on pesticides and seeds.
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Food & Agriculture

Asean’s next generation of biofuels needs resilience beyond blending

Will scaling biofuels in Southeast Asia make the region more resilient to oil shocks, or does it introduce new vulnerabilities? Structural risks must be addressed as biofuels take a larger share of the transport fuel mix.
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Food & Agriculture

Chokepoint in the Gulf: What the US-Israeli war on Iran means for Southeast Asia’s food security

The effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz could push Aseans farmers and food prices to the brink, but the region has options to ease some of the pressure.
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Food & Agriculture

Securing Asean’s food resilience amid the Middle East conflict

The Middle East conflict is set to have a double-whammy impact on both Asean’s import of fertilisers, and its energy-intensive fertiliser production. The timing is critical as in the coming months, the five major crops, including rice, are being planted in Asean.

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10 March 2026

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Food & Agriculture

Women farmers are the first defenders of a warming Southeast Asia

9 March 2026

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Food & Agriculture

The war in Iran could create a fertiliser shock, risking global food prices and farming

3 March 2026

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Carbon & Climate

Game on: How math can help design strategies for climate crisis, diplomacy

25 February 2026

The Indian Kashmiri mountain town of Gulmarg

Carbon & Climate

Warming winters are disrupting the hidden world of fungi – the result can shift mountain grasslands to scrub

16 February 2026

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Corporate Responsibility

Companies should be held accountable for the safety of wildlife in their concessions

26 January 2026

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Food & Agriculture

How mountain terraces have helped Indigenous peoples live with climate uncertainty

22 January 2026

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Food & Agriculture

How to feed ten billion people

20 January 2026

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Policy & Finance

Global power struggles over the ocean’s finite resources

7 January 2026

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Food & Agriculture

Changing diets amid a changing climate

31 December 2025

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Food & Agriculture

War and weather show how fragile food systems are - we must act

16 December 2025

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Food & Agriculture

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

13 November 2025

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Food & Agriculture

India’s farm policies behind bad air, unhealthy diet, water crisis

30 September 2025

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Carbon & Climate

Earth’s life support is failing. Will we act?

29 September 2025

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Food & Agriculture

Reimagining agriculture for young people

17 September 2025

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Carbon & Climate

To make the climate issue resonate in China, root it in local realities

15 August 2025

Siti Khadijah Market in Malaysia

Food & Agriculture

A food security imperative for the Johor-Singapore SEZ blueprint

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