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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
News /
Food & Agriculture
As the worst haze since 2015 chokes Southeast Asia, are Big Agri's fire prevention efforts working?
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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?
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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?
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Food & Agriculture
Palm oil: Smallholder expansion into peatlands on the rise
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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
Press Releases /
Olam
5 priorities for regenerating the living world on World Environment Day
By Chris Brown, Vice President and Global Head of Environment, Olam International Food and agriculture is rooted in the world’s natural resources. These include all the plants, animals and micr...
8 Jun 2020
5 priorities for regenerating the living world on World Environment Day
Opinion /
Food & Agriculture
Coffee, cocoa, and the cutting edge
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smallholders
. Developed by Grameen Foundation in partnership with the Rainforest Alliance and Mars, the digital FDP incorporates farm data such as environmental conditions, household financing, and pr...
4 Mar 2019
Coffee, cocoa, and the cutting edge
Opinion /
Food & Agriculture
How technology is helping farmers predict and prepare for El Niño
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smallholders
over two years. Elsewhere, Kenyan agribusiness, UjuziKilimo, uses wireless sensor networks to monitor soils and provide advice on fertilizers, seeds, weather and best practices to help s...
23 Jan 2019
How technology is helping farmers predict and prepare for El Niño
News /
Food & Agriculture
Asian palm oil buyers lag behind in global green push—survey
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smallholders
, communities and biodiversity on the ground. It found a quarter were investing in such initiatives in areas at risk of unsustainable palm oil development. In Malaysia, the second-biggest ...
20 Jan 2020
Asian palm oil buyers lag behind in global green push—survey
Opinion /
Food & Agriculture
As fall armyworms invade Asia, we need more than chemical warfare from Big Agri
If you were to drive through farmland in rural Java, Indonesia, on a recent morning and roll down your car windows, you probably wouldn’t take in the wet grass smell of the rice paddies. Ins...
11 Apr 2019
As fall armyworms invade Asia, we need more than chemical warfare from Big Agri
News /
Food & Agriculture
Indonesia in joint bid with Malaysia to shield palm oil
Palm oil giants Indonesia and Malaysia are teaming up to fight what they call a smear campaign targeted at the commodity. The move sets the stage for what activists say will be a costly PR war that ta...
4 Mar 2021
Indonesia in joint bid with Malaysia to shield palm oil
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Waste Management
Circular textiles startup refuses clothing ‘donations’ from ultra fast-fashion brand
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Singapore-based circular clothing enterprise Cloop said it does not want to encourage dumping of cheap clothing that cannot …
Circular textiles startup refuses clothing 'donations' from ultra fast-fashion brand
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Carbon & Climate
Singapore launches coalition to boost demand for high-integrity carbon credits
New Singapore-based initiative aims to aggregate demand for high-integrity carbon credits and unlock financing for early-stage climate projects …
Singapore launches coalition to boost demand for high-integrity carbon credits
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Energy
How the Philippines is preparing its nuclear workforce for a revival
As nuclear energy returns, the government, universities and companies are training the next generation of engineers to operate …
How the Philippines is preparing its nuclear workforce for a revival
News /
Corporate Responsibility
As sustainability retreats, Singapore youths face a green jobs reality check
At a youth festival in Singapore, students and young eco-preneurs discussed the state of the green jobs market …
As sustainability retreats, Singapore youths face a green jobs reality check
News /
Carbon & Climate
Singapore lays out plan to close $700 billion nature-finance gap as Asia’s TNFD pioneers show disclosures can move capital
The world is spending only about US$200 billion a year on nature-based solutions, against an estimated US$700 billion …
Singapore lays out plan to close $700 billion nature-finance gap as Asia's TNFD pioneers show disclosures can move capital
News /
Carbon & Climate
Temasek cannot meet 2030 emissions targets, dragged by aviation, energy sectors: CEO
The fund maintained its goal of reaching net zero by 2050 but cited volatile global markets and higher …
Temasek cannot meet 2030 emissions targets, dragged by aviation, energy sectors: CEO
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