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News / Food & Agriculture

Can better traceability brew up a sustainable recipe for coffee?

...smallholders managing only one or two hectares of land, with many intermediaries, including exporters and roasters, making up the rest of the value chain,” he said. “The coffee industry has become ver...

9 Apr 2020

Can better traceability brew up a sustainable recipe for coffee?

Batik Sembilan community in Harapan forest, Indonesia

News / Policy & Finance

Indonesia approves coal road project through highly biodiverse forest

On a sunny day in March, six teenagers have their hands full planting seedlings in a patch of burned forest in Sumatra. “This was our first time planting trees right in a forest,” said Rifai, 14. The ...

15 Jul 2020

Indonesia approves coal road project through highly biodiverse forest

News / Food & Agriculture

Stingless bee honey discovery could create conservation-friendly business opportunities in Asia Pacific

...smallholders that can keep them out of poverty when prices of the commodities are low. He was not involved in the University of Queensland study. Stingless bee honey can cost up to RM800 per kg after ...

12 Aug 2020

Stingless bee honey discovery could create conservation-friendly business opportunities in Asia Pacific

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

There's no time, or food, to waste

...smallholders and is responsible for 16 per cent of global agricultural greenhouse gas emissions. That makes the announcement an important contribution toward the intervention focused on targeting hots...

12 Nov 2019

There's no time, or food, to waste

Press Releases / Fairtrade

More dough for cocoa farmers

Ice cream icon Ben & Jerry’s pioneers holistic approach to living incomes for cocoa farmers, in partnership with Fairtrade 18th November United Kingdom/United States. Cocoa farmers in Cote ...

18 Nov 2020

More dough for cocoa farmers

Press Releases / Olam International

Olam urges international brands to adopt new rice eco-label to allow consumers to support farmers

...smallholders, who earn on average US$2 to US$7 per day from rice 3. Irrigated rice cultivation uses 30-40 per cent of the world’s freshwater and is responsible for 10 per cent of glo...

23 Sep 2020

Olam urges international brands to adopt new rice eco-label to allow consumers to support farmers

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

India can stop palm oil deforestation in Southeast Asia

...smallholders depend on this essential commodity for their livelihood, employment and income, leading many to question whether there is a way to balance the scale and production of palm oil sustainably...

22 Sep 2020

India can stop palm oil deforestation in Southeast Asia

Haze over Singapore's skyline, September 2019

News / Food & Agriculture

As the worst haze since 2015 chokes Southeast Asia, are Big Agri's fire prevention efforts working?

...Smallholders take the heat This year's haze, which began in earnest in July, has mainly been caused by smallholder farmers using fire to expand their plantations, suggested Carolyn Lim, senior manager...

18 Sep 2019

As the worst haze since 2015 chokes Southeast Asia, are Big Agri's fire prevention efforts working?

News / Food & Agriculture

Pioneering sustainable palm oil in India

Arokia Samy owns a small eatery in southern India’s Chennai and uses a lot of palm oil. He buys it at around INR 90 (US$ 1.22) a litre from the market and chooses it over other cooking oils because it...

10 Feb 2021

Pioneering sustainable palm oil in India

News / Food & Agriculture

How can digitalisation ease the plight of Southeast Asia's smallholder farmers?

...smallholders get access to training, supply chain intelligence, traceability and financing. According to him, this could strengthen their role in the global production of food, and help lift them out ...

3 Apr 2019

How can digitalisation ease the plight of Southeast Asia's smallholder farmers?

Some of Henkel's top laundry and home care brands. Image: Henkel

News / Corporate Responsibility

Plastic and palm oil problems: How will consumer goods giant Henkel hit its sustainability targets?

Uwe Bergmann, director of sustainability management for Henkel, the €19.9 billion (US$22 billion) German consumer goods and chemicals multinational famous for brands such as Persil, Loctite, and Schwa...

4 Mar 2020

Plastic and palm oil problems: How will consumer goods giant Henkel hit its sustainability targets?

Press Releases / Rethink Events

Meet the Asia-Pacific innovators shaking up the agri-food system

...smallholders across the country. The start-up community will join the virtual Asia-Pacific Agri-Food Innovation Summit on November 18-20, as it brings together over 800 delegates for three action-pac...

21 Oct 2020

Meet the Asia-Pacific innovators shaking up the agri-food system

News / Food & Agriculture

In a bid to phase out palm biofuel, Europe leaves fans and foes dismayed

...smallholders as farmers with less than 2 hectares (5 acres) of land. The Malaysian government, though, says that all farmers with up to 5 hectares (12 acres) of land should be considered smallholders....

19 Mar 2019

In a bid to phase out palm biofuel, Europe leaves fans and foes dismayed

News / Carbon & Climate

Study finds widespread damage to Southeast Asia's peatlands—and palm oil plantations are not the only ones to blame

Vast swathes of Southeast Asia’s carbon-rich peatlands are subsiding, and the damage is not limited to areas that have been drained or cleared for palm oil plantations, a new study has found. Palm oil...

10 Jun 2020

Study finds widespread damage to Southeast Asia's peatlands—and palm oil plantations are not the only ones to blame

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

The pandemic must transform global agriculture

The Covid-19 pandemic should spur us to redefine how we feed humanity. The world now has a unique opportunity to adopt long-term measures to promote healthier diets, encourage farmers to produce a wid...

23 Jun 2020

The pandemic must transform global agriculture

News / Food & Agriculture

Stretching the conversation about sustainable natural rubber

...smallholders in Asia, making traceability a major issue in the industry's quest for sustainability. Degraded land in a village in Bintan, Indonesia, where smallholder farmers grow rubber trees as we...

27 Mar 2019

Stretching the conversation about sustainable natural rubber

Press Releases / Rabobank

Rabobank announces 15 Agri-tech Start-ups and Innovators for SustainableAg Asia Challenge

...smallholders with their crops to financing options, and the creation of technology platforms across the agricultural supply chain that will boost productivity, efficiency and income for the farmers. ...

24 Sep 2019

Rabobank announces 15 Agri-tech Start-ups and Innovators for SustainableAg Asia Challenge

News / Food & Agriculture

How 'future-fit' crops can protect the environment and provide for the future

“Future-fit” crops that are nutritionally dense and climate-resilient are key to surviving climate change and providing for the world’s larger population in the future. In a recent report on neglected...

15 Jan 2020

How 'future-fit' crops can protect the environment and provide for the future

News / Energy

India's tribal farmers tap solar irrigation to cut migration

The Chotanagpur Plateau in eastern India, criss-crossed with streams, once was lush green even in winter. But increasingly erratic rainfall in recent years has made life much harder for the region's i...

3 Aug 2020

India's tribal farmers tap solar irrigation to cut migration

News / Food & Agriculture

Palm oil: Smallholder expansion into peatlands on the rise

...smallholders go largely unmonitored. They’re also the fastest-growing producer group in Indonesia: the total area cultivated with oil palm by smallholders is expected to grow from approximately 40 per...

15 Feb 2019

Palm oil: Smallholder expansion into peatlands on the rise

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