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As 2020 fire season nears, Indonesian president blasts officials for last year's burning

...smallholders for setting the fires. He then also claimed there was a political angle to the arson, linking the burning to the elections that took place in April. Widodo himself later acknowledged that...

12 Feb 2020

As 2020 fire season nears, Indonesian president blasts officials for last year's burning

Workers load a truck with palm fruit at a palm oil plantaion in Nagan raya, Aceh province, Indonesia

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

Smallholder farmers are key to making the palm oil industry sustainable

...smallholders will double their production capacity over the next decade, managing a 60 per cent share of Indonesia’s total oil palm plantation area by 2030. Independent smallholders are thus critical ...

30 Mar 2018

Smallholder farmers are key to making the palm oil industry sustainable

News / Food & Agriculture

Climate crisis hitting bottom 50 per cent hardest, say London protesters

...smallholders supply 80 per cent of overall food produced in Asia, sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America. Traditional pastoralists are typically highly sustainable producers, but many are facing challen...

22 Apr 2019

Climate crisis hitting bottom 50 per cent hardest, say London protesters

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Financing the green transition

Four years after world leaders signed the Paris climate agreement and adopted the United Nations’ 2030 Agenda with its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the global environmental crisis shows e...

17 Oct 2019

Financing the green transition

News / Food & Agriculture

Too late to plant green seed among world's forgotten palm oil farmers?

...smallholders like Kasno have been left behind, say industry officials. Only 78,000 smallholders are certified by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), a body of consumer organisations, enviro...

3 Apr 2018

Too late to plant green seed among world's forgotten palm oil farmers?

News / Food & Agriculture

Can the palm oil sector do more with less to save Indonesia's forests?

...smallholders who produce fresh fruit bunches for independent mills, making supply chains very hard to manage. Smallholder plantations are known for their low productivity and poor crop quality, which ...

10 Jul 2018

Can the palm oil sector do more with less to save Indonesia's forests?

News / Food & Agriculture

Perpetual haze? Sustained pressure on peatlands will mean no end to Indonesia's forest fires, warns report

A dangerous combination of the development of industrial palm oil and pulpwood plantations on Indonesia's carbon-rich peatlands, and weakened regulations to protect peat, means that annual toxic...

22 Nov 2019

Perpetual haze? Sustained pressure on peatlands will mean no end to Indonesia's forest fires, warns report

Videos / Carbon & Climate

Want to save the planet? Move to Wales

Fighting climate change is much more than a day job for Chris Vernon and Erica Thompson. It is their entire way of life. They are part of a groundbreaking Welsh government scheme under which people ge...

23 Oct 2018

Want to save the planet? Move to Wales

News / Food & Agriculture

'Nobel for food' winner tells ailing world to eat more veg

...smallholders in Asia miss out on new, resilient seeds that could improve yields in the face of climate change, according to the Netherlands-based Access to Seeds Foundation. Seeds for diversity Diver...

11 Jun 2019

'Nobel for food' winner tells ailing world to eat more veg

News / Food & Agriculture

Big brands sourcing illegal palm oil from habitat of orangutans, rhinos, elephants and tigers: study

...smallholders and, like GAR, is aiming for full traceability by the end of 2020. Both Musim Mas and GAR are members of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), the industry certifier for palm oi...

1 Oct 2019

Big brands sourcing illegal palm oil from habitat of orangutans, rhinos, elephants and tigers: study

News / Food & Agriculture

Are small farmers ready as Indonesia looks to impose its palm oil sustainability standard on all?

...smallholders by 2020. The need to do so will only grow more urgent as the number of such operators continues to increase, expanding their share of Indonesia’s oil palm plantation area to 60 percent by...

16 Apr 2018

Are small farmers ready as Indonesia looks to impose its palm oil sustainability standard on all?

News / Food & Agriculture

Haze from forest fires, Indonesia’s national ‘embarrassment’, is back

Three years after forest fires in Indonesia sent huge volumes of smoke billowing into Malaysia and Singapore, the Southeast Asian neighbors are dealing with a repeat of the “embarrassing” transboundar...

8 Aug 2019

Haze from forest fires, Indonesia’s national ‘embarrassment’, is back

News / Carbon & Climate

Innovation rush aims to help farmers, rich and poor, beat climate change

In decades to come, African farmers may pool their money to buy small robot vehicles to weed their fields or drones that can hover to squirt a few drops of pesticide only where needed. Smartphones alr...

29 Jul 2019

Innovation rush aims to help farmers, rich and poor, beat climate change

News / Policy & Finance

Land bill at centre of unrest in Indonesia

In late September, international news outlets caught flak for their coverage of Indonesia’s largest mass protests since the 1998 uprising that led to the fall of the dictator Suharto. Headlines publis...

4 Nov 2019

Land bill at centre of unrest in Indonesia

News / Food & Agriculture

Experts question wisdom that more food means less hunger

...smallholders. But we really need to question that," said Adrian Martin, a professor at Britain's University of East Anglia. One in nine people already do not have enough food and the world population ...

21 Jun 2018

Experts question wisdom that more food means less hunger

News / Food & Agriculture

Indonesia’s sustainable districts bet on corporate deforestation pledges

...smallholders in particular, some sort of assurances that their efforts will be rewarded.” Coming together When Hernedi met Syahrani in 2016, she was working as the World Resources Institute’s (WRI) Su...

12 Nov 2018

Indonesia’s sustainable districts bet on corporate deforestation pledges

News / Policy & Finance

India promotes South-South cooperation, but key questions unaddressed

As the second week of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) Conference of Parties (COP) kicked off in Delhi, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi highlighted South-South cooperation and i...

10 Sep 2019

India promotes South-South cooperation, but key questions unaddressed

workers in oil palm plantation in Malaysia

News / Policy & Finance

Malaysian smallholders accuse EU of discrimination on palm oil ban

...smallholders claimed that the planned ban on palm oil will threaten 650,000 farmers and over 3.2 million Malaysians who depend on the palm oil industry for their livelihoods. The ire from Malaysian fa...

25 Jan 2018

Malaysian smallholders accuse EU of discrimination on palm oil ban

Loose palm oil fruit on the estate of PT AMNL, West Kalimantan, Indonesia

News / Food & Agriculture

Europe's palm oil ban has no basis, says Sinar Mas boss Franky Widjaja

...smallholders about sustainable farming practices. Smallholders produce 40 per cent of the US$66 billion industry’s oil, but are held back by what Widjaja calls "very old" farming practices. Among them...

28 Feb 2018

Europe's palm oil ban has no basis, says Sinar Mas boss Franky Widjaja

46 year-old former bank manager and mother of two Pornsiri Raknukul now runs her own RSPO-certified palm oil plantation in Southern Thailand. Image: RSPO

News / Food & Agriculture

What does sustainable palm oil mean to smallholders?

...smallholders produce 40 per cent of the US$66 billion industry’s oil, but only 14.5 per cent of the world’s sustainable palm oil. The potential for smallholders to grow palm oil in ways that avoid the...

30 Jan 2018

What does sustainable palm oil mean to smallholders?

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