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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

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

Coffee, cocoa, and the cutting edge

...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

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

How technology is helping farmers predict and prepare for El Niño

...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

...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

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

Covid-19 has sparked a food loss crisis. Here are 3 ways to tackle it

With the novel coronavirus wreaking havoc around the globe, just about every nation faces major issues with its food supply. While a potentially devastating food security crisis looms, a food loss cri...

27 May 2020

Covid-19 has sparked a food loss crisis. Here are 3 ways to tackle it

News / Food & Agriculture

How apps, AI and solar-powered cold rooms are driving sustainable agriculture

When Prateek Singhal and two friends devised a solar pump to help Indian farmers tap water from wells to irrigate their crops, they were ecstatic. But they soon noticed that the growth in farmers’ in...

13 Aug 2019

How apps, AI and solar-powered cold rooms are driving sustainable agriculture

Farmer working on a rice field in Bali, Indonesia.

News / Food & Agriculture

Indonesia’s food estate programme to expand new plantations in forest frontiers

The Indonesian government is doubling down on a plan to establish large-scale agricultural plantations across the country, in a move that threatens widespread deforestation and the disenfranchisement ...

7 Oct 2020

Indonesia’s food estate programme to expand new plantations in forest frontiers

Press Releases / Rabobank

Rabobank unveils 15 food & agriculture start-up finalists for FoodBytes! Pitch 2020

One Singapore Startup makes it to the FoodBytes! Pitch Top 15 finalists will showcase their innovations at the FoodBytes! virtual pitch competition December 2 Rabobank revealed the 15 food and agri...

12 Nov 2020

Rabobank unveils 15 food & agriculture start-up finalists for FoodBytes! Pitch 2020

News / Food & Agriculture

Will Indonesia’s new rice plan be a repeat of an epic past failure?

...smallholders growing diversified crops. “This crisis has to be a wakeup call for the government that hasn’t carried out agrarian reform,” Dewi said. “[The president] asked farmers to remain harvesting...

21 May 2020

Will Indonesia’s new rice plan be a repeat of an epic past failure?

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