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Food & Agriculture
Palm oil—can we enjoy it responsibly?
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smallholders
and rolling out new technologies to several millions of farmers is very costly,” says Suwarganada. Another promising attempt to produce oil palm in a sustainable way comes from Colombia, ...
17 Feb 2019
Palm oil—can we enjoy it responsibly?
News /
Carbon & Climate
What does battling climate change look like?
Global agri-business Olam International and Eco-Business have launched Re-imagining a Brighter Future, a global competition looking for inspiring photographs that show how people are fighting or adapt...
1 Aug 2018
What does battling climate change look like?
News /
Policy & Finance
Land rights to forest communities a must to control climate change
Forestry has become an increasingly important issue in South Asia, with the new Pakistani government touting the success of its “billion tree tsunami” in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa as a model for a “ten billi...
13 Dec 2018
Land rights to forest communities a must to control climate change
Press Releases /
Olam
Olam Prize for Innovation in Food Security 2019 winner announced
Singapore, June 6, 2019 – A unique mapping approach that will give smallholder farmers a ‘best fit’ for what to grow, where and how, has been awarded the 2019 Olam Prize for Innovati...
11 Jun 2019
Olam Prize for Innovation in Food Security 2019 winner announced
News /
Food & Agriculture
Buy green palm oil or forests will suffer, industry warns
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smallholders
achieve no deforestation by 2020, Ware added. The new RSPO rules run the risk of alienating smaller-scale palm oil producers, many of whom are already struggling to meet the old standards...
27 Nov 2018
Buy green palm oil or forests will suffer, industry warns
News /
Policy & Finance
The coffee farmers betting on blockchain to boost business
On a bustling street near the shiny new international airport in Ethiopia's capital is a small coffee roastery with big dreams. Nearly 40 Ethiopians—a third of them women—sift, roast and package prize...
21 Feb 2019
The coffee farmers betting on blockchain to boost business
Opinion /
Green Buildings
Bamboo: Nature’s forgotten solution for green industry
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smallholders
and policymakers. Speaking at a conference of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification, Paola Agostini of the World Bank summarised the problem: “I am convinced about bamboo, but we st...
18 Feb 2019
Bamboo: Nature’s forgotten solution for green industry
News /
Food & Agriculture
Why is it so hard to sell sustainable palm oil?
...
smallholders
. What options will a boycott leave them with? They can’t grow anything else, because of the density of palm oil cultivation. Their other option is either to burn that palm oil off, or mov...
5 Nov 2018
Why is it so hard to sell sustainable palm oil?
News /
Food & Agriculture
Cash is best when tackling hunger caused by drought - study
Cash handouts are the best way to support smallholder farmers struggling due to drought, but for farmers experiencing wetter weather, agricultural inputs such as fertilisers and pesticides help most, ...
29 Nov 2017
Cash is best when tackling hunger caused by drought - study
News /
Food & Agriculture
Olam introduces new tool for more transparent supply chains
Food manufacturers may soon be able to tell consumers exactly which farm their cashew nuts were grown in, with the help of a new traceability tool developed by Olam International for its clients. Unv...
19 Apr 2018
Olam introduces new tool for more transparent supply chains
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Carbon & Climate
Vietnam’s new conservation plan prioritises trees and people, but not emissions
For nearly a decade now, Vietnam has made “payment for forest ecosystem services” its key strategy for protecting forests and improving the lives of poor rural communities. Now, it plans to use the sa...
13 Mar 2020
Vietnam’s new conservation plan prioritises trees and people, but not emissions
Opinion /
Food & Agriculture
Chocolate’s sustainability challenge
In the 1970s and 1980s, when multinational firms first linked sustainability to business success, the chief catalyst was vulnerability, not altruism. Consumer pressure, political boycotts, and costly ...
3 May 2018
Chocolate’s sustainability challenge
Opinion /
Food & Agriculture
Why the next Tesla should take on agriculture
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smallholders
’ incomes in the face of climate-related losses based on a weather-related index. With two billion
smallholders
bearing the brunt of billions of dollars of climate-related disasters, it re...
3 Nov 2017
Why the next Tesla should take on agriculture
Opinion /
Food & Agriculture
In soil-stressed India, it's time to swap chemical pesticides for natural farming
India's green revolution, a period from 1960s onwards that advocated the use of chemical fertilisers and pesticides to boost agriculture and food security, was useful in its time. But the time for a d...
8 Feb 2019
In soil-stressed India, it's time to swap chemical pesticides for natural farming
News /
Food & Agriculture
Is certification enough to protect Southeast Asia's forests?
There is no questioning the value that certification could bring to agroforestry, a sector lumbered with a range of issues from the abuse of indigenous people's rights and deforestation, to biodiversi...
9 May 2018
Is certification enough to protect Southeast Asia's forests?
Opinion /
Food & Agriculture
Pushing GMS food up the value chain
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smallholders
are also becoming better at reaching out to regional and global markets. Connectivity to international markets expands the income pathways of small farmers. Agricultural and food trade in...
4 Jan 2018
Pushing GMS food up the value chain
News /
Food & Agriculture
Pushing Vietnam’s shrimp industry in the direction of sustainability
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Smallholders
turn slowly to integrated farming Faced with a rapidly deteriorating Mekong region and the challenge of working with thousands of small farmers like Hung and Le, Vietnamese authorities an...
20 Jul 2018
Pushing Vietnam’s shrimp industry in the direction of sustainability
Opinion /
Carbon & Climate
The bleak fate of the Amazon
Last month, a deeply divided Brazil voted to elect its next president. Faced with a choice between Fernando Haddad of the leftist Workers’ Party and the right-wing extremist Jair Bolsonaro, Brazilians...
22 Nov 2018
The bleak fate of the Amazon
News /
Food & Agriculture
Intensified farming ‘rarely’ aids wellbeing, environment
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smallholders
in the cases studied often struggle to move from subsistence to commercial farming, and the challenges involved are not currently well reflected in many intensification strategies. Phil D...
17 Jul 2018
Intensified farming ‘rarely’ aids wellbeing, environment
Opinion /
Carbon & Climate
The power of rural women to reduce global food insecurity and cut emissions
My village, Tajpur, in the Lalmonirhat district of northern Bangladesh is very green and beautiful. It sits beside the river Tista and most of our community members work in agriculture. The area is pr...
18 Oct 2018
The power of rural women to reduce global food insecurity and cut emissions
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News /
Energy
Inside China’s solar villages
For a decade, solar power has been bringing opportunities to China’s villages. What does that mean today?
Inside China’s solar villages
News /
Energy
Analysis: Clean energy drove more than a third of China’s GDP growth in 2025
Solar power, electric vehicles (EVs) and other clean-energy technologies drove more than a third of the growth in …
Analysis: Clean energy drove more than a third of China’s GDP growth in 2025
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Waste Management
Chile’s Julio Cordano elected chair of UN plastic pollution treaty talks
The position had been vacant for four months amid a deadlock in negotiations for the treaty to curb …
Chile’s Julio Cordano elected chair of UN plastic pollution treaty talks
Opinion /
Policy & Finance
Sanae Takaichi supermajority opens path to nuclear-led, industry-driven energy transition in Japan
Landslide election win strengthens push to link decarbonisation with economic security, boosting nuclear, domestic clean tech and state-led …
Sanae Takaichi supermajority opens path to nuclear-led, industry-driven energy transition in Japan
News /
Cities
Thirsty tech: Why chips and data centres are a growing water risk for investors
The Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) has published a new case study examining the financial risks that …
Thirsty tech: Why chips and data centres are a growing water risk for investors
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Policy & Finance
Taiwan delays 20 per cent renewables target beyond 2026 as tighter solar rules slow rollout
The government shifts focus to rooftop solar and offshore wind, says power supply will remain stable despite regulatory …
Taiwan delays 20 per cent renewables target beyond 2026 as tighter solar rules slow rollout
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