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Press Releases / Rabobank

India’s Ecozen wins inaugural Rabobank Food Loss Challenge Asia

...smallholders. “One of the main objectives of the Rabobank Food Loss Challenge was to connect start-ups to investors, users and other stakeholders to stimulate cooperation between them – a...

19 Nov 2018

India’s Ecozen wins inaugural Rabobank Food Loss Challenge Asia

Press Releases / The Rainforest Alliance

Ag-Tech Developer Challenge launches

Calling Remote-Sensing, AI and UAV* Companies to Support Cocoa Farmers Globally. February 4th, 2019 – LONDON - Smallholder farmers produce the majority of the world’s cocoa. While demand ...

7 Feb 2019

Ag-Tech Developer Challenge launches

Videos / Food & Agriculture

Can palm oil plantations be elephant-friendly?

Oil palm plantations in the state of Sabah, Malaysian Borneo can lose millions from damaged crops due to elephant raids, while smallholder farmers can lose their livelihoods overnight to an elephant h...

6 May 2019

Can palm oil plantations be elephant-friendly?

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

Much of Asia still goes to bed unfed

Despite repeatedly faltering on the targets to reduce hunger, the global community renewed its pledge in 2015 to build a hunger-free world by 2030. Ironically, the number of food-insecure people has b...

28 Oct 2019

Much of Asia still goes to bed unfed

Press Releases / CDP

Corporates increasingly aware of risks from Indonesian palm oil, but failing to cascade action through supply chains

...smallholders, whose share of Indonesia’s total oil palm plantation area is forecast to rise from 41 per cent to 60 per cent by 2030. It argues that while many producers, processors, and traders ...

18 Mar 2019

Corporates increasingly aware of risks from Indonesian palm oil, but failing to cascade action through supply chains

Former textile factory worker Ngo Sinoun, 37, is now an insect farmer. to Image: Roberto Traina

News / Food & Agriculture

How insect farming is lifting Cambodians out of poverty

Ngo Sinoun recalls the gruelling time spent working in a garment factory. With four young children to provide for, the 37-year-old was forced to battle through ailing health to work long hours to supp...

17 Dec 2019

How insect farming is lifting Cambodians out of poverty

News / Food & Agriculture

Will India’s curb on Malaysian palm oil hurt Indonesian forests?

India’s palm oil dispute with Malaysia could undo progress made on sustainable palm oil and put forests in Indonesia and elsewhere at greater risk if it drags on, experts said. Last month, India—Malay...

5 Feb 2020

Will India’s curb on Malaysian palm oil hurt Indonesian forests?

Opinion / Policy & Finance

A new deal for sustainable development

Almost nine decades ago, newly elected US President Franklin Roosevelt introduced the New Deal in 1933 in response to the Great Depression. The New Deal consisted of a number of mutually supportive in...

15 Nov 2019

A new deal for sustainable development

News / Food & Agriculture

Breakthrough in plant engineering could boost productivity, feed millions more

The yield of many staple crops could be boosted by 40 per cent by a new process that adjusts the way they turn sunlight into energy, potentially feeding hundreds of millions of more people, American r...

4 Jan 2019

Breakthrough in plant engineering could boost productivity, feed millions more

News / Food & Agriculture

Palm oil: the pros and cons of a controversial commodity

...smallholders through profitable international trade. To its detractors, it is a cause of deforestation and social conflict, a direct threat to endangered species and a contributor to climate change.Wi...

5 Nov 2019

Palm oil: the pros and cons of a controversial commodity

Press Releases / PEFC

Committed collaboration for using IT in sustainable forest management in Southeast Asia

...smallholders and local communities. “In Myanmar, we are helping stakeholders to use IT at the landscape scale to bring sustainable management to Myanmar’s forests, involving public and pr...

12 Dec 2018

Committed collaboration for using IT in sustainable forest management in Southeast Asia

A chief sustainability officer working during Covid-19

News / Corporate Responsibility

How a pandemic changed the chief sustainability officer

A question corporate sustainability officers will have been asking themselves this year is, does my company value its environmental and social impact enough for my job to survive a pandemic? For many ...

6 Oct 2020

How a pandemic changed the chief sustainability officer

News / Food & Agriculture

What is sustainable rubber?

Bouncy, elastic, compressible and moldable—the unique properties of natural rubber make it one of the most widely used materials, found in products from pencil erasers and birthday balloons to condoms...

21 May 2019

What is sustainable rubber?

News / Food & Agriculture

Long road ahead for ethical palm oil in booming Indian market

The global agricultural market has been severely shaken by Covid-19. Palm oil is no exception, particularly in India, the world’s largest importer of the commodity.Demand has fallen off a cliff in Ind...

22 Jun 2020

Long road ahead for ethical palm oil in booming Indian market

News / Food & Agriculture

Hacking sustainability for smallholder palm oil farmers

...Smallholders represent up to 40 per cent of Indonesia’s palm oil plantations but often have little access to resources to farm sustainably. The palm oil industry has drawn flak for labour rights abus...

2 May 2018

Hacking sustainability for smallholder palm oil farmers

News / Food & Agriculture

'We’ve been negligent,’ Indonesia’s president Widodo says as fire crisis deepens

...smallholders for setting the fires. He then also claimed that there was a political angle to the arson, linking the burning to the elections that took place in April. Fixing the mistakes In light of t...

18 Sep 2019

'We’ve been negligent,’ Indonesia’s president Widodo says as fire crisis deepens

News / Carbon & Climate

Urbanisation, commercial farms threaten Asia's forests, UN warns

Sprawling urban areas and expanding plantations are placing greater pressure on forests and resources in Asia-Pacific, hurting rural communities and exacerbating the effects of climate change, the Uni...

19 Jun 2019

Urbanisation, commercial farms threaten Asia's forests, UN warns

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Who benefits from false climate solutions?

In a recent special report, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) argues that addressing climate change will require fundamental changes to the way we manage forests and farmland. The ...

16 Sep 2019

Who benefits from false climate solutions?

News / Policy & Finance

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