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Opinion / Food & Agriculture

Soil science for a hungry planet

According to the United Nations, sometime around 2050, the planet’s human population will be close to ten billion, a threshold that will stress many of the world’s most important systems, especially a...

4 Aug 2017

Soil science for a hungry planet

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

A quiet traceable revolution in the palm oil industry

...smallholders, rather than controlled by a handful of big companies. To provide an example, a staggering 40 per cent of all palm oil estates in Indonesia is managed by some two million smallholders. An...

15 Jun 2016

A quiet traceable revolution in the palm oil industry

News / Carbon & Climate

New partnership between FAO and UNFCCC climate body

...smallholders, a large share of the population in many developing countries most exposed to climate change. The new collaboration will facilitate capacity building and the sharing of technical expertis...

24 Mar 2017

New partnership between FAO and UNFCCC climate body

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Changing landscapes: key issues for action on sustainable development in 2018

Last January, I set out the issues I felt were most likely to affect sustainable development practice over 2017, asking what damage might be done by the election of a climate denier to the US presiden...

8 Jan 2018

Changing landscapes: key issues for action on sustainable development in 2018

News / Policy & Finance

To make financing sustainable agriculture work, farmers' terms must be met

Much of the deforestation in the world’s tropical rainforests comes so that we humans have enough to eat. But sustainable agricultural practices exist that help farmers coax more corn and soybeans, co...

5 Jun 2017

To make financing sustainable agriculture work, farmers' terms must be met

Press Releases / Paia Consulting Pte Ltd

Charting materiality amongst Singapore’s sustainability reporters

With the Singapore Stock Exchange’s (SGX) announcement this year that sustainability reporting is to be introduced on a comply or explain basis for all listed companies from the end of FY2017, u...

27 Feb 2017

Charting materiality amongst Singapore’s sustainability reporters

Golden Agri innovative financing programme

News / Food & Agriculture

The path to sustainable palm oil

...smallholders, because they are the entities that we have business transactions with. If the smallholders are submitting their food bunches to the mills that we buy from, then our leverage is through t...

12 May 2016

The path to sustainable palm oil

Mars stakeholder workshop at Responsible Business Forum, Singapore. Image: Mars

News / Food & Agriculture

Mars to boost $1bn sustainability plan with ‘sense of urgency’

Chocolate giant Mars is exploring ways to turbo-charge its recently announced billion-dollar sustainability programme. The US$35 billion confectionary and pet care company wants to infuse the program...

5 Dec 2017

Mars to boost $1bn sustainability plan with ‘sense of urgency’

News / Food & Agriculture

Land used for palm oil could double without damaging forests - researchers

The area covered by palm oil plantations worldwide could double without damaging protected areas or sensitive forests, Austrian researchers said on Tuesday. Researchers from the Austria-based Internat...

1 Aug 2016

Land used for palm oil could double without damaging forests - researchers

Opinion / Corporate Responsibility

Why it pays to find your company's global purpose

Every company’s supply chain ends with a human being’s life. And the people who need a company’s services, use its products, or are on its payroll rely on one planet. And here is something most can ag...

11 Jan 2017

Why it pays to find your company's global purpose

A waterway runs through a palm oil estate owned by Golden Agri Resources. Water is critical to restoring peat forests burned in the fires of 2015

News / Food & Agriculture

In pictures: Indonesia's fire free villages

...smallholders who are, because that is the only available land,” he says. To condemn the product - oil palm - is not productive and will not address the issues at hand, Purnomo says, adding that the go...

11 Apr 2017

In pictures: Indonesia's fire free villages

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

Inclusive business in agriculture: Leave no farmer behind

...smallholders, which are the communities that produce most of the food consumed worldwide. Agriculture in Asia is characterized by smallholders (marginal farm households that own or cultivate less than...

21 Jan 2016

Inclusive business in agriculture: Leave no farmer behind

News / Food & Agriculture

Fashion industry coalition aims for 30 per cent sustainable cotton from 2020

Cotton is the world's most commonly used natural fibre, and is part of the fabric of the world's second most polluting industry - fashion. A new cross-industry initiative launched last week aims to ma...

22 May 2017

Fashion industry coalition aims for 30 per cent sustainable cotton from 2020

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

Peatlands matter for Indonesia, and globally

This week I accompanied a group of reporters to visit Tanjung Leban village in Bengkalis district, Riau. There, some local farmers are trying new crops after losing their oil palm plots to fires and t...

22 May 2017

Peatlands matter for Indonesia, and globally

News / Manufacturing

Scientists call on EU businesses, govts to support greener palm oil

While Europe has shown early leadership in pushing the palm oil sector toward less damaging practices, European politicians and business leaders need to do more to improve the sustainability of the in...

27 Jun 2016

Scientists call on EU businesses, govts to support greener palm oil

News / Carbon & Climate

Companies and governments working together helps halt deforestation - report

A new report that looks at the collaborative efforts of private sector and government actors to halt deforestation in two key tropical forest nations could have lessons for countries around the world....

7 Aug 2017

Companies and governments working together helps halt deforestation - report

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

The right to agricultural technology

In the 1960s, when biologist Paul Ehrlich was predicting mass starvation due to rapid population growth, plant breeder Norman Borlaug was developing the new crops and approaches to agriculture that wo...

15 May 2017

The right to agricultural technology

Nigel Sizer speaking at the Global Forest Watch launch

News / Carbon & Climate

New Rainforest Alliance head: technology could improve commodity certification

...smallholders to adopt more sustainable practices especially in landscapes where commodities are produced. “Carbon payments could provide an incentive flowing back to smallholders on top of a certifica...

22 Mar 2016

New Rainforest Alliance head: technology could improve commodity certification

News / Food & Agriculture

IRRI and FAO step up joint efforts to globally bolster sustainable rice production

...smallholders, reduce the environmental footprint of rice cultivation and meet consumer needs for food safety and quality. At the same time, IRRI Education works to build capacity through-out IRRI's ex...

31 Mar 2017

IRRI and FAO step up joint efforts to globally bolster sustainable rice production

News / Carbon & Climate

Here's what Indonesia is doing about its deadly haze from forest and peatland fires

...smallholders and large plantation companies under a patchwork system with no comprehensive national oversight. The result was overlapping and conflicting boundaries, making it impossible to determine ...

14 Aug 2017

Here's what Indonesia is doing about its deadly haze from forest and peatland fires

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