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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

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

News / Food & Agriculture

Indonesia to Europe: Pay for sustainable palm oil

...smallholders in mitigating and adapting to climate change.

22 Mar 2016

Indonesia to Europe: Pay for sustainable palm oil

Press Releases / Olam International

Olam Livelihood Charter reaches milestone

...smallholders 224,352 farmers trained in Good Agricultural Practices, of whom 44,340 were women US$21.2 million quality premium paid · Over US$1.5 million social investments in community he...

27 Feb 2015

Olam Livelihood Charter reaches milestone

News / Water

Bringing water back to Bundelkhand

The sight of water was startling. In a region wrung dry, the two-acre lake near Jignanda village in Bundelkhand still had a good eight feet standing. Glinting in the afternoon sun, it stirred hope in ...

5 May 2016

Bringing water back to Bundelkhand

News / Food & Agriculture

POIG raises the bar for deforestation-free palm oil

The Palm Oil Innovation Group (POIG), an international collective of palm oil growers and non-government organisations, on Thursday released new standards to verify that companies are producing the co...

14 Mar 2016

POIG raises the bar for deforestation-free palm oil

News / Food & Agriculture

RSPO promises to defeat palm oil-linked deforestation

...Smallholders have frequently been pinpointed as the one of the sources of illegal forest clearing and burning - a practice which is attributed to a lack of resources to clear land in a costlier but mo...

21 Nov 2014

RSPO promises to defeat palm oil-linked deforestation

News / Food & Agriculture

Second largest palm oil producer in Indonesia commits to zero deforestation

...smallholders, non-governmentaI organizations (NGOs) and other stakeholders to drive positive change” before listing “No Deforestation,” “Conservation of Peatlands,” and “Respect for Human Rights” as t...

23 Sep 2015

Second largest palm oil producer in Indonesia commits to zero deforestation

News / Food & Agriculture

Asian scientists grapple with how to foster crop pollination

Pollinators, whose role is essential in a third of what the world eats, are at center stage after a landmark new United Nations report warned that many of the 20,000 species are threatened by human be...

2 Mar 2016

Asian scientists grapple with how to foster crop pollination

News / Carbon & Climate

The climate risk to your business

Measures to reduce carbon emissions, such as shifting to renewable energy, may be costly and difficult to implement, but businesses must do so urgently because climate change is already threatening th...

6 Nov 2015

The climate risk to your business

News / Carbon & Climate

Why forests will make or break the climate fight

This year’s Earth Day was a momentous one, marked by the signing of the Paris Agreement, which aims to confine global temperature rise to below 2 deg C. With a theme of “Trees for the Earth”, the even...

3 May 2016

Why forests will make or break the climate fight

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

Breath of fresh air on stale haze issue

Many people here would experience a sense of deja vu each year during Indonesia's burning season when farmers resort to illegal forest fires to clear land for lucrative crops, and a thick haze blanket...

27 Apr 2016

Breath of fresh air on stale haze issue