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Food & Agriculture
How mountain terraces have helped Indigenous peoples live with climate uncertainty
From the Ifugao highlands to Morocco’s Anti-Atlas Mountains, Indigenous terrace farming illustrates how long-standing, locally adapted practices capture water, conserve soil and diversify crops to withstand intensifying climate extremes.
Food & Agriculture
Reimagining agriculture for young people
An ageing agricultural workforce bodes ill for our ability to feed the world. To entice young people to work in food systems, policymakers should demonstrate the industry’s breadth, while providing them with the resources and skills to modernise farming and build sustainable, innovative agribusinesses.
Manufacturing
Fast fashion has a serious coal problem
A handful of fashion brands – H&M, Ralph Lauren, Decathlon and Adidas – are working to stop using coal to power their factories in 2025, while others are prioritising decarbonisation at lower levels of ambition.
Food & Agriculture
Synergising digital tech and climate tech to enhance Asean climate action
To ensure the food security of our region amidst climate change, there is no time like the present to determine how climate and digital technologies can work together to feed Asean.
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23 August 2024
Food & Agriculture
La Niña: boon or bane for Southeast Asia’s food security?
1 July 2024
Food & Agriculture
Vietnam’s rice land restrictions: Time for a rethink?
11 January 2023
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Carbon & Climate
The key to future climate adaptation is to tap past knowledge
5 June 2020
27 March 2020
Carbon & Climate
How can the climate crisis cut through the Covid-19 media storm?
12 November 2019
Food & Agriculture
There's no time, or food, to waste
28 October 2019
Food & Agriculture
Much of Asia still goes to bed unfed
9 October 2019
11 April 2019
28 February 2019
Food & Agriculture
First ever global scientific eating plan forgets the world’s poor
27 August 2018
Food & Agriculture
What climate change means for fungi and food safety
5 May 2014
Food & Agriculture
Managing the monsoon
20 February 2014
Food & Agriculture
A clear case for golden rice
6 January 2014
Food & Agriculture
The GMO stigma
5 November 2013
Food & Agriculture
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