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Corporate Responsibility
How Marks & Spencer is helping to build a global 'sustainability tribe'
When UK retailer Marks & Spencer launched its ambitious sustainability strategy in early 2007, it dubbed the strategy “Plan A” to remind us that we have just one planet, so there is no Plan B. Pla...
23 Jun 2017
How Marks & Spencer is helping to build a global 'sustainability tribe'
News /
Food & Agriculture
Mounting protest over new Indonesian palm oil bill as legislators press on
...
Smallholders
Union (SPKS) sued its management body, claiming the fund has only been used to benefit large companies.) Of the financial measures offered in the palm oil bill, Gadjah Mada University pro...
26 Jul 2017
Mounting protest over new Indonesian palm oil bill as legislators press on
Opinion /
Food & Agriculture
Delivering better livelihoods for smallholder farmers
In recent years, Olam has made extensive progress under its Livelihood Charter, which was launched in 2010 and aims to support
smallholders
in our supply chain. But smallholder productivity across Af...
9 Aug 2016
Delivering better livelihoods for smallholder farmers
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Food & Agriculture
How technology is making farming and recycling sexy in Asia
Technology is giving traditional industries such as agriculture and waste management a much-needed update as the world teeters on the edge of the fourth industrial revolution. While developed nations...
19 Jun 2017
How technology is making farming and recycling sexy in Asia
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Carbon & Climate
Climate change threatens agricultural trade in Pacific Rim economies, UN agency warns
With global warming expected to significantly impact future yields in countries located closer to the equator, the United Nations agriculture agency is calling on Asia-Pacific economies to take a lead...
26 Aug 2017
Climate change threatens agricultural trade in Pacific Rim economies, UN agency warns
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Carbon & Climate
While Trump addresses UN, businesses meet to address climate change
...
smallholders
increase their yields, and they will be the focus of a Wednesday event called “Going ‘All-In’ to Address Commodity-Driven Deforestation” The event runs from 3:30pm to 8pm at the Rockefell...
19 Sep 2017
While Trump addresses UN, businesses meet to address climate change
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Food & Agriculture
Q&A: We need to produce ‘different food’, not more
...
smallholders
will convert to largeholders, because that's what's necessary for that system to be profitable. So there is a degree of cultural imperialism in that business model, which is not necessari...
12 Dec 2017
Q&A: We need to produce ‘different food’, not more
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Food & Agriculture
Higher incomes driving Indonesian
smallholders
to oil palm and rubber
...
smallholders
who were very poor and started planting oil palm 20 years ago, and now are able to put their children into higher education.” The research “reconfirms what most people working in this lan...
4 Nov 2016
Higher incomes driving Indonesian smallholders to oil palm and rubber
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Policy & Finance
Indonesia will fund green projects and rural livelihoods
The Indonesian government and key partners have launched a unique financing platform that taps on public funding to unlock private finance for long-term green projects and to stimulate livelihoods in ...
3 Nov 2016
Indonesia will fund green projects and rural livelihoods
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Food & Agriculture
FAO warns of tilapia virus as outbreak spreads
...
smallholders
. China, Indonesia and Egypt are the three leading aquaculture producers of tilapia, a fish deemed to have great potential for expansion in sub-Saharan Africa. In 2015, world tilapia produ...
15 Jun 2017
FAO warns of tilapia virus as outbreak spreads
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Carbon & Climate
Are ‘no deforestation’ commitments working?
Using LANDSAT satellite data to observe annual changes in forest area and annual expansion of industrial plantations, scientists at the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) are assessing...
4 Dec 2017
Are ‘no deforestation’ commitments working?
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Food & Agriculture
How Cargill is feeding a changing, growing world
For most people, food represents pleasure, comfort, nourishment and economic sustenance. But in recent decades, growing and consuming food have become mired in difficult questions about hunger, climat...
22 Jan 2018
How Cargill is feeding a changing, growing world
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Carbon & Climate
Smallholders
team up to confront climate change impacts
Farmers in Mwingi, a remote, arid and impoverished region of Kitui County of Kenya have been experiencing unreliable rain patterns and problems associated with droughts. Smallholder farmers have been ...
18 Jan 2017
Smallholders team up to confront climate change impacts
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Food & Agriculture
New reporting guidelines set benchmark for palm oil transparency
...
smallholders
, compliance, and external initiatives. Specific data requirements include disclosing all of a company's concession maps, names of their suppliers, and detailed descriptions of how they ar...
27 Jan 2017
New reporting guidelines set benchmark for palm oil transparency
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Food & Agriculture
Coffee belt feels climate squeeze
...
smallholders
, who are among those most exposed to climate change. John Connor, CEO, Climate Institute Increased consumption John Connor, CEO of the Sydney-based Climate Institute, says: “Over 2.25 bi...
19 Dec 2016
Coffee belt feels climate squeeze
Press Releases /
Olam International
Olam sees major issues remaining for
smallholders
beyond 2020
...
Smallholders
grow globally consumed crops such as cocoa, coffee and cashew and if they don’t see farming as a viable livelihood then they will seek other work, typically in the cities. Since we ...
12 Jul 2016
Olam sees major issues remaining for smallholders beyond 2020
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Policy & Finance
Fears of SDG clashes overblown, study finds
Fears that progress towards some Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) may undermine achievements in others are largely unfounded, a science-based analysis of their interactions has concluded. The SDG...
14 Jun 2017
Fears of SDG clashes overblown, study finds
Opinion /
Food & Agriculture
Smallholder inclusion in company supply chains: top five success factors
...
smallholders
into company value chains. Integrating
smallholders
depends on mobilizing the intermediary companies in the supply chain and providing them with the knowledge and economic incentive. As ...
12 Apr 2016
Smallholder inclusion in company supply chains: top five success factors
News /
Food & Agriculture
Poor farmers--unlike rich--face uphill battle with Pakistan’s climate extremes
Since his father died in 2011, Moeez Assadullah has been looking after his family's farm alone. The 21-year-old tends the 3 hectares (7 acres) of land without the help of his two brothers, who lost in...
30 Mar 2017
Poor farmers--unlike rich--face uphill battle with Pakistan’s climate extremes
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Olam International
Olam reports on 2015 sustainability progress
...
smallholders
·254,146
smallholders
trained in Good Agricultural Practices ·1,816 model farms, demo plots and farmer field schools to reinforce training application ·120,000 far...
29 Jun 2016
Olam reports on 2015 sustainability progress
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Circular textiles startup refuses clothing ‘donations’ from ultra fast-fashion brand
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Singapore-based circular clothing enterprise Cloop said it does not want to encourage dumping of cheap clothing that cannot …
Circular textiles startup refuses clothing 'donations' from ultra fast-fashion brand
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Carbon & Climate
Singapore launches coalition to boost demand for high-integrity carbon credits
New Singapore-based initiative aims to aggregate demand for high-integrity carbon credits and unlock financing for early-stage climate projects …
Singapore launches coalition to boost demand for high-integrity carbon credits
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Energy
How the Philippines is preparing its nuclear workforce for a revival
As nuclear energy returns, the government, universities and companies are training the next generation of engineers to operate …
How the Philippines is preparing its nuclear workforce for a revival
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Corporate Responsibility
As sustainability retreats, Singapore youths face a green jobs reality check
At a youth festival in Singapore, students and young eco-preneurs discussed the state of the green jobs market …
As sustainability retreats, Singapore youths face a green jobs reality check
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Carbon & Climate
Singapore lays out plan to close $700 billion nature-finance gap as Asia’s TNFD pioneers show disclosures can move capital
The world is spending only about US$200 billion a year on nature-based solutions, against an estimated US$700 billion …
Singapore lays out plan to close $700 billion nature-finance gap as Asia's TNFD pioneers show disclosures can move capital
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Carbon & Climate
Temasek cannot meet 2030 emissions targets, dragged by aviation, energy sectors: CEO
The fund maintained its goal of reaching net zero by 2050 but cited volatile global markets and higher …
Temasek cannot meet 2030 emissions targets, dragged by aviation, energy sectors: CEO
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