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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
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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?
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Opinion /
Carbon & Climate
10 biggest changes of the decade for forests
The last decade was pivotal for the world’s forests. The 2010s saw the rise of unprecedented new commitments — from governments and the private sector alike — to bring deforestation to heel. The UN RE...
20 Jan 2020
10 biggest changes of the decade for forests
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Policy & Finance
$1 billion programme launched to restore land, protect forests
Dutch bank Rabobank and U.N. Environment have announced a $1 billion programme to finance new ways of farming that curb emissions, restore the land and protect forests. Agriculture produces about 24 p...
20 Oct 2017
$1 billion programme launched to restore land, protect forests
Opinion /
Lifestyle
In the world of sustainability, colonialism is not dead
Last week, Scandinavian fashion label and global It-brand Ganni hardly caused a stir when it closed Copenhagen Fashion Week with a sustainability-themed showcase titled “Life on Earth.” Considering th...
13 Feb 2019
In the world of sustainability, colonialism is not dead
News /
Policy & Finance
Conservation entrepreneurs are ready to get down to business. Watch their pitches here.
Business is booming in the arena of “nature-based” companies, which includes ventures ranging from ecological restoration companies to ecotourism to sustainable commodity production. One study estimat...
20 Aug 2018
Conservation entrepreneurs are ready to get down to business. Watch their pitches here.
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Manufacturing
Malaysia’s chip boom risks soaring Scope 2 emissions, experts warn
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At the Semiconductor Sustainability Summit 2025, industry leaders said Malaysia’s push to double its global chip share could …
Malaysia’s chip boom risks soaring Scope 2 emissions, experts warn
Opinion /
Food & Agriculture
India’s food waste is turning into an environmental time bomb
India’s colossal food waste problem is both a symptom and a significant accelerator of the climate crisis.
India’s food waste is turning into an environmental time bomb
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Energy
Singapore’s Sembcorp eyes $4.3bn acquisition of Australia’s Alinta Energy
The Singapore firm has said it would buy the Chow Tai Fook Enterprises-owned firm, but there are no …
Singapore’s Sembcorp eyes $4.3bn acquisition of Australia’s Alinta Energy
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Policy & Finance
Arthur Joseph Kurup appointed as Malaysia’s new environment minister
He takes the helm of the Natural Resources and Environmental Sustainability ministry following a Cabinet reshuffle, succeeding acting …
Arthur Joseph Kurup appointed as Malaysia’s new environment minister
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Energy
TotalEnergies to power Google’s Malaysia data centres with 1TWh of solar energy
Google will also buy renewable energy for its Malaysian data centres from another solar project in the northern …
TotalEnergies to power Google’s Malaysia data centres with 1TWh of solar energy
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Carbon & Climate
Singapore dominates Southeast Asia’s green startup landscape, report finds
New mapping of climate firms shows region rich in solutions but constrained by grids, finance and coordination.
Singapore dominates Southeast Asia’s green startup landscape, report finds
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