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Deforestation in Indonesia for pulpwood plantations

...smallholders comply with the regulation have been "very minimal" to date. "Ideally the EU should not delay and have all the necessary elements, including support for smallholders, ready by next month....

3 Oct 2024

...smallholders often operate on the margins. Research has revealed these farmers often face hurdles such as limited access to finance, technology and markets. Government policies, while aiming to suppo...

20 Aug 2024

Investors often cite the same constraint when asked why more capital does not flow to developing economies: too few bankable projects, too much risk. Governments see the problem differently. Capital i...

15 Apr 2026

As 2025 draws to a close, one lesson stands out from a year of conflict, climate shocks and economic turbulence: food systems now sit on the frontline of social protection and global stability. When...

31 Dec 2025

Podcast on RSPO's new principles and criteria for certifying palm oil as environmentally and socially sustainable.

...smallholders struggle to comply with the regulation, because of the stringent traceability requirements. Tell us how RSPO is trying to include more smallholders in its certification scheme. Reflecting...

7 Nov 2024

...smallholders and buyers by cushioning shocks that ripple through value chains. In both cases, philanthropy has a role to play in supporting advocacy for critical reforms. This includes de-risking inno...

26 Dec 2025

...smallholders to transparent and traceable markets. Scaling these tools will require substantial investments in agricultural extension services (to promote best practices), major science-based policy s...

22 Jan 2026

...smallholders and how digital tools could be employed to trace supply chain emissions to reduce them over time. With over 300,000 smallholders – each owning 100 acres or less across the country – small...

7 Oct 2024

The government of West Sumatra plans to move forward with a legal pathway for up to 300 small mines operating illegally in the heavily forested province, joining several other devolved governments gra...

25 Feb 2026

...smallholders like Ahmed face a stark choice: Watch their fields go dry, or find limited, costly alternatives to save their harvests. For them, the irrigation struggle is not just about water; it is a ...

20 Mar 2026

...smallholders such as Bashar and her family to grow nutritious produce to feed themselves, make a living and stay on their land are helping. Otherwise, 25 million people could migrate from coastal area...

29 Apr 2025

Mandala Capital secures Green Climate Fund approval to scale climate adaptation, transform food systems in South and Southeast Asia

Mandala Capital, a private equity fund investing in the agriculture and food sectors across South and Southeast Asia, announced today that the Green Climate Fund ("GCF") has officially approved the Ma...

31 Oct 2025

UN Food Systems Coordination Hub to spotlight food as security at COP30 and the World Social Summit

...smallholders, and consumers. The legitimacy of multilateralism depends on whether people see that cooperation delivers. Inclusive food systems can rebuild trust; exclusion will deepen cynicism. The t...

29 Oct 2025

Sheikh Sirajul Islam, a smallholder farmer in Bangladesh’s southwestern Satkhira district, sowed the wet-season aman rice in his four acres of land this August. He is hopeful for a good yield, he says...

10 Oct 2024

The tariffs announced on 2 April by United States President Donald Trump, which ranged from 10 per cent to a staggering 49 per cent on Asean Member States (AMS), have the potential to severely disrupt...

24 Apr 2025

...Smallholders are not ready for Europe's deforestation law Dr Musdhalifah Machmud said most smallholders are not EUDR-ready. Image: Agrofarm.co.id Though it is true that many smallholder farmers are...

10 Dec 2024

...smallholders are often left out. For many, these developments support claims that ESG regulations are a form of neo-colonialism or “regulatory imperialism”. The sense of injustice makes it easier to d...

7 Nov 2024

...smallholders, Puckle Hobbs suggested that banks use operational data such as readings from drainage pumps, or even environmental or social data, to get more accurate credit assessments of smallholder ...

3 Jul 2025

...smallholders it contracts are certified by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), that it trains these smallholders, and that it maintains a deforestation-free palm oil supply chain. However,...

10 Sep 2024

Leading carbon market experts have criticised a proposed standard for carbon projects under the United Nations’ climate change body, which they say could exclude nature-based solutions from being reco...

8 Aug 2025

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