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News / Food & Agriculture

Industry-NGO coalition releases toolkit for making ‘No Deforestation’ commitments a reality on the ground

...smallholders.” The hope is that having one set of guidelines agreed upon by industry and civil society will finally provide the necessary tools to clean up the global palm oil supply chain. “With the ...

11 May 2017

Industry-NGO coalition releases toolkit for making ‘No Deforestation’ commitments a reality on the ground

Press Releases / Cargill Asia Pacific

Cargill receives first RSPO certification for Poliplant plantation

...smallholders. John Hartmann, chief executive officer, Cargill Tropical Palm Holdings Pte Ltd, said,“The well-being of the neighboring village communities, our employees and the environment are ...

15 Oct 2016

Cargill receives first RSPO certification for Poliplant plantation

News / Policy & Finance

How the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals can quietly change global business

In 2006, the anti-poverty group World Vision launched a massive effort to help people in the Ethiopian district of Wolaita Sodo protect themselves from droughts. Ten years on, the project has been a s...

31 Jul 2017

How the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals can quietly change global business

Videos / Carbon & Climate

Can Indonesia stay haze free?

...smallholders (or "taking from the rich and giving it to the poor"), rather it is a plan to fairly distribute Indonesia's vast natural resources. BKPM was recently in the news for approving a plan to i...

28 Jun 2017

Can Indonesia stay haze free?

News / 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

eFishery set up at a fish pond in Indonesia

News / 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

News / 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

News / 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

News / 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

News / 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

News / 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

News / 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

News / 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?

News / 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

News / 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

News / 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

News / 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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