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Stop "boring" language to spur climate action, U.N. environment chief says

People are hungry for news about the risks of climate change but experts are alienating them with boring, technical jargon, the United Nations top environment official said on Tuesday. Erik Solheim, e...

20 Dec 2017

Stop "boring" language to spur climate action, U.N. environment chief says

News / Policy & Finance

Indonesian smallholder farmers to receive funding boost for irrigation

Up to 24 million smallholder farmers in Indonesia stand to benefit from a large-scale financing scheme that seeks to boost rural livelihoods by providing more reliable access to water. Known as the In...

23 Feb 2017

Indonesian smallholder farmers to receive funding boost for irrigation

News / Carbon & Climate

Economic headwinds buffet once-resilient Sumatran forest-farms

...smallholders have compelled the regions forest-farmers to abandon damar agroforestry over the past decade. Krui is located in Lampung province, bounded by the Indian Ocean and Bukit Barisan Selatan Na...

24 Oct 2017

Economic headwinds buffet once-resilient Sumatran forest-farms

News / Policy & Finance

Private sector leaders seek to ramp up investment in sustainable landscapes

At the Global Landscapes Forum’s third investment case symposium, held at the World Bank Group’s International Finance Corporation in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, top investors, business leaders, an...

5 Jun 2018

Private sector leaders seek to ramp up investment in sustainable landscapes

News / Food & Agriculture

Zero-deforestation pledges held back by challenges

...smallholders in these initiatives by covering the added costs of compliance. More broadly, officials can ensure public support of these private initiatives by passing “supportive” laws that are in lin...

2 Feb 2018

Zero-deforestation pledges held back by challenges

News / Food & Agriculture

How will humanity feed itself by 2050?

The food industry today faces a daunting task: feeding 10 billion mouths in a fair and sustainable way by 2050. According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, food supply must more...

30 Jul 2018

How will humanity feed itself by 2050?

News / Policy & Finance

3 ways to jumpstart sustainable business in the Philippines

If the Philippines is to realise its full economic potential and improve the lives of its citizens, sustainability advocates must stop working on single issues in isolation and band together to achiev...

27 Sep 2017

3 ways to jumpstart sustainable business in the Philippines

Opinion / Corporate Responsibility

The BlackRock letter: A turning point for real change?

Although greenwashing is far too common, recently there have been two powerful “green shots,” which show that business is finally taking sustainability a lot more seriously. These are, in our opinion ...

12 Feb 2018

The BlackRock letter: A turning point for real change?

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

Putting nutrition back on the menu

Human nutrition is of increasing importance to science. Of course, centuries of scientific research have been devoted to ensuring that enough food is produced for growing populations. But with obesity...

8 Feb 2018

Putting nutrition back on the menu

Farmer under agricultural training in Thailand

News / Food & Agriculture

Lessons from GM crops: Agritech will not take root without better communication

Technology has the potential to raise crop yields, cut fertiliser use, improve farming efficiency and, by its nature, make the world’s oldest and least digitised industry more sustainable. But without...

14 Jul 2017

Lessons from GM crops: Agritech will not take root without better communication

The Bo-Kaap neighborhood of Cape Town by David Stanley

Opinion / Water

Water crises are hitting our economies: Time to hit back with natural infrastructure

With rapidly dwindling water supplies, Cape Town is making headlines as a city in the throes of a crisis. Residents, already experiencing impacts on their businesses and lives, are bracing for the wor...

26 Feb 2018

Water crises are hitting our economies: Time to hit back with natural infrastructure

preecha smallholder oil palm farmer in Thailand

News / Food & Agriculture

As Thailand ramps up its palm oil sector, peat forests feel the pressure

...smallholders who are involved in this case of land conflict in a protected area. Pru Kaching was declared a National Reserve Forest in 1965, under the control of Thailand’s Royal Forest Department. Th...

27 Mar 2017

As Thailand ramps up its palm oil sector, peat forests feel the pressure

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

Food security's social network

In 2015, when the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals were officially adopted, the clock began ticking on an ambitious goal: ending global hunger by 2030. At the time, that target seemed achi...

21 Mar 2018

Food security's social network

News / Food & Agriculture

Indonesian farmers pay the price for politics in palm oil

...smallholders are the latest victims of the push into the relatively pristine forests of Central Sulawesi—and the island of Sulawesi in general—by a palm oil industry that has largely depleted the fore...

6 Jun 2018

Indonesian farmers pay the price for politics in palm oil

News / Food & Agriculture

What is sustainable palm oil?

...smallholders improve their yields and incomes, as well as to help them access new markets. To help smallholders access the certification without the costs, RSPO puts 10 per cent of the profits from CS...

23 Mar 2017

What is sustainable palm oil?

News / Food & Agriculture

Much of the planet’s land severely degraded owing to increased consumption, UN warns

A new United Nations report warns that a third of the planet’s land is now severely degraded thanks to a doubling in the consumption of natural resources over the past 30 years. Some 15 billion trees ...

13 Sep 2017

Much of the planet’s land severely degraded owing to increased consumption, UN warns

News / Food & Agriculture

Increasing food production without damaging the environment

To achieve sustainable development we must transform current agriculture and food systems, including by supporting smallholders and family farmers, reducing pesticide and chemical use, and improving l...

14 Jun 2017

Increasing food production without damaging the environment

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

News / Food & Agriculture

Could the palm oil industry’s most productive seeds end deforestation?

...smallholders that supply GAR. Smallholder farmers are reputed to produce the lowest yields, and are most commonly blamed for starting fires to clear land for planting. Daud Dharsono, president directo...

26 May 2017

Could the palm oil industry’s most productive seeds end deforestation?

News / Food & Agriculture

Colombian palm oil firm takes RSPO certification to the next level

...smallholders.” Daabon, which has four palm oil estates in Northern Colombia spanning almost 10,000 hectares, has had all of its palm oil certified according to RSPO's baseline requirements since 2010....

2 May 2017

Colombian palm oil firm takes RSPO certification to the next level

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

Bridging the two worlds of carbon forestry

...smallholders and communities to global markets while protecting and providing environmental services is one example of this. My adventures have immersed me in these two contrasting worlds. I have crun...

10 Apr 2017

Bridging the two worlds of carbon forestry

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