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News / Food & Agriculture

Palm oil giant IOI sues RSPO over suspension

Palm oil giant IOI Group is suing the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) - an organisation it helped start - over its decision to suspend IOI's membership on allegations that its subsidiaries f...

10 May 2016

Palm oil giant IOI sues RSPO over suspension

News / Food & Agriculture

Feeding the world's cities: a critical challenge for sustainable development

...smallholders, along the whole supply and value chain. Crucial to this is drastically reducing food losses and waste, which are especially high in urban areas. This includes measures such as redistribu...

18 Jan 2016

Feeding the world's cities: a critical challenge for sustainable development

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

Extending Indonesia’s forest moratorium is a win for business

...smallholders’ yields. Protecting landscapes protects profits Preserving forest landscapes is critical for smallholders’ economic vitality. Healthy forests provide many ecosystem services, including th...

14 May 2015

Extending Indonesia’s forest moratorium is a win for business

News / Corporate Responsibility

FGV denies WSJ allegations of human rights abuses

...smallholders and plantation workers, without whom we would not be able to operate daily," it said.

28 Jul 2015

FGV denies WSJ allegations of human rights abuses

News / Carbon & Climate

NASA photo reveals Asia’s choking haze

...Smallholders are also feeling the heat — some companies have blamed small palm oil developers for setting fires that have spread into concession areas. The bad news is fires and haze may get worse bef...

1 Oct 2015

NASA photo reveals Asia’s choking haze

News / Food & Agriculture

Collaboration crucial to food security in Southeast Asia

To ensure food security and nutrition in Southeast Asia amid a shrinking agricultural workforce, growing population and diminishing natural resources, businesses, governments and civil society need to...

9 Jul 2015

Collaboration crucial to food security in Southeast Asia

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Opinion / Policy & Finance

New EU-Indonesia timber agreement will improve forest protection

...smallholders would be unable to meet the costs of certification. There were often times when I too thought the challenge was too great. Yet, in the end, the criticism of the SVLK and the pessimism abo...

18 May 2016

New EU-Indonesia timber agreement will improve forest protection

News / Food & Agriculture

Will sustainable palm oil surge exclude small farmers?

...smallholders - in many cases, helping them to replant," he noted. Sen, who also co-chairs the RSPO board, said Unilever is seeking to partner with governments in palm oil-producing nations, donor agen...

25 Feb 2015

Will sustainable palm oil surge exclude small farmers?

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

Save our soils

...smallholders, pastoralists, and indigenous people – has been affected by large-scale investment. The struggle to secure land rights for individuals and communities has thus become a matter of survival...

23 Apr 2015

Save our soils

News / Food & Agriculture

How will we feed 10 billion people?

...smallholders. Grow Asia is a partnership between the Asean (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) secretariat and World Economic Forum. Its mandate is to leverage the strengths of multinational corp...

16 Oct 2015

How will we feed 10 billion people?

News / Food & Agriculture

UN drive to lift up poor farmers must focus on climate - experts

A new push to give farmers in developing countries better access to markets, led by the United Nations' food aid agency, could fall short of its goals if it does not prioritise helping poor farmers ad...

15 Feb 2016

UN drive to lift up poor farmers must focus on climate - experts

News / Food & Agriculture

Rethink needed on farming’s impacts

...smallholders − to think again about how to manage the future. Organic farms cover only 1 per cent of global agricultural land, but their produce is big business in Europe and America. Professor Regano...

9 Feb 2016

Rethink needed on farming’s impacts

News / Food & Agriculture

Palm giants ask Indonesian gov't to clear path toward sustainability

...smallholders, it's not the consumers, and that does in fact weaken the advocacy potential of the group," he said. "We're working on that right now." Adam Schwarz, president of Asia Group Advisors, sa...

4 May 2015

Palm giants ask Indonesian gov't to clear path toward sustainability

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

How we can help smallholders feed the world

...smallholders worldwide are an opportunity for companies to diversify their portfolio of suppliers and reduce their carbon footprint. This also creates opportunities for the smallholders, who can bette...

15 Jan 2015

How we can help smallholders feed the world

News / Food & Agriculture

Golden Agri gets more transparent

Palm oil giant Golden Agri-Resources (GAR) on Thursday announced that all the palm oil it processes in Indonesia can now be traced back to the mill where it was produced, a move which the company says...

26 Feb 2016

Golden Agri gets more transparent

News / Food & Agriculture

Will Indonesia’s new palm oil subsidy undermine no-deforestation push?

...Smallholders Union (SPKS), supports raising productivity but worries the money will actually be used to subsidize biodiesel in such a way as to drive further plantation expansion for corporate benefit...

2 Sep 2015

Will Indonesia’s new palm oil subsidy undermine no-deforestation push?

News / Food & Agriculture

Development or destruction? An inside look at APP's mega paper mill

Burning season is in full swing in Indonesia. The annual haze caused by slash-and-burn forestry hasn't been as intense as in previous years, and neighbours Singapore and Malaysia haven't complained of...

14 Nov 2017

Development or destruction? An inside look at APP's mega paper mill

News / Food & Agriculture

In pictures: Indonesia's forests, plantations, and people

...smallholders, however, that have been blamed for the burning. For decades, palm oil, pulp and paper companies have been criticised for clearing forests to expand their plantations and sourcing raw mat...

18 Nov 2016

In pictures: Indonesia's forests, plantations, and people

News / Food & Agriculture

Consumer goods giants under fire for poor palm oil record

Greenpeace International on Thursday released a new report slamming consumer goods giants such as Colgate-Palmolive, Johnson&Johnson, and PepsiCo for failing to cut deforestation out of their palm...

6 Mar 2016

Consumer goods giants under fire for poor palm oil record