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Research / IFC - Agribusiness Advisory

Working with Smallholders Handbook

...Smallholders handbook is a guide for firms who wish to expand their supply chains by working with smallholder farmers. It offers an overview of key agricultural practices for sustainable supply chain...

2 Jul 2014

Working with Smallholders Handbook

News / Carbon & Climate

IKEA of Sweden and FAO to work together on sustainable forest management

...smallholders around the world. This partnership is not only about how the forests are managed in Viet Nam, but about improving the everyday life of people in the countryside," said Hildeman. "This pa...

5 Jun 2015

IKEA of Sweden and FAO to work together on sustainable forest management

News / Carbon & Climate

Meeting climate goals: Four things companies can do

Developing countries will need to spend as much as US$175 billion every year to mitigate climate change by 2030, and public resources alone will not be enough to meet this goal. This is why the priva...

8 Dec 2015

Meeting climate goals: Four things companies can do

News / Food & Agriculture

Companies with zero-deforestation pledges still using illegal palm oil

...smallholders and independent suppliers who are trying to adopt sustainable practices, so they can differentiate themselves from rogue companies. The government should also stop issuing operating licen...

8 Apr 2016

Companies with zero-deforestation pledges still using illegal palm oil

Press Releases / CSR Asia Ltd.

Can multi-stakeholder initiatives help smallholders in palm oil industry?

...smallholders - through the work of the Roundtable on Sustainable Oil (RSPO). The critical role smallholders play in palm oil is often ignored. In fact, in the large palm-producing countries, smallhold...

26 Jun 2014

Can multi-stakeholder initiatives help smallholders in palm oil industry?

News / Food & Agriculture

In pictures: Indonesia's deadly haze crisis

The fires in Indonesia's forests and peatlands have raged for almost three months now with no respite, prompting the country's officials to announce on Tuesday that they may declare the haze crisis a ...

28 Oct 2015

In pictures: Indonesia's deadly haze crisis

News / Carbon & Climate

Under-fire Jokowi prepares biggest shift yet in Indonesian haze

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo is preparing significant steps toward addressing the underlying causes of Indonesia’s devastating wildfires, including an enhanced moratorium on licenses to exploit peat...

27 Oct 2015

Under-fire Jokowi prepares biggest shift yet in Indonesian haze

News / Food & Agriculture

Golden Agri issues response to RSPO inquiry

Singapore-based palm oil giant Golden Agri-Resources (Golden Agri) has responded to an inquiry by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) and rebutted complaints that it had violated multiple in...

8 Apr 2015

Golden Agri issues response to RSPO inquiry

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

The African breadbasket

...smallholders. Of course, agricultural development can have serious economy-wide pitfalls, which must be navigated carefully. For example, as technology-driven productivity gains reduce the number of w...

20 Oct 2015

The African breadbasket

News / Food & Agriculture

FAO launches digital platform on family farming

...smallholders or peasant farmers -- today, some 72 percent of farms in the world are smaller than one hectare and only 6 percent are bigger than five hectares. They are essential to local food security...

17 Jun 2015

FAO launches digital platform on family farming

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

A new paradigm for food efficiency

History was made at the United Nations climate change conference in Paris last December, when more than 190 countries adopted a landmark agreement, under which they will commit to lowering greenhouse ...

28 Jan 2016

A new paradigm for food efficiency

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

Good fences make safe species

African countries are often criticized for failing to meet their environmental challenges. Observers often cite loss of habitat in the face of population growth, land degradation, and industrializatio...

17 Aug 2015

Good fences make safe species

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

Let’s not be blinkered about palm oil

Campaigners who have focused on the role of the palm oil industry in driving deforestation could be forgiven for feeling rather pleased with themselves. In recent months there has been a dramatic surg...

13 Nov 2014

Let’s not be blinkered about palm oil

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

Political economy of fire and haze: Moving to long-term solutions

...smallholders and other key stakeholders will be called to consider their multiple goals in the landscape, understand the drivers, set priorities, take action and monitor progress. Understanding WHO re...

2 Sep 2015

Political economy of fire and haze: Moving to long-term solutions

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

Playing with fire: the economics and network of fire and haze

...smallholders that includes palm oil. Oil palm is clearly a major driver of local, national and regional economic growth. The question is not whether we develop oil palm, but how we can do so in a sust...

21 Sep 2015

Playing with fire: the economics and network of fire and haze

Press Releases / Unilever Asia Pte Ltd

Unilever sees sustainability supporting growth

Four years into its ambitious and wide-ranging Sustainable Living Plan, Unilever says it is making a growing and positive impact on its business in terms of growth, cost efficiency and resilience for ...

7 May 2015

Unilever sees sustainability supporting growth

News / Carbon & Climate

Palm oil standard tested for usage by end-2014

...smallholders. The third part involves 33 criteria and 117 indicators for oil palm plantations and organised smallholders, while the fourth part covers 26 criteria and 87 indicators for palm oil mills....

4 Sep 2014

Palm oil standard tested for usage by end-2014

News / Food & Agriculture

When is tree-cutting deforestation? Palm oil companies set their definition

...smallholders,” Jonathon Porritt, co-chair of the HCS Science Study Steering Committee, said in a statement. A draft of the report released in October was found wanting by conservationists and other fo...

21 Dec 2015

When is tree-cutting deforestation? Palm oil companies set their definition

News / Corporate Responsibility

Unilever plan on track, but cutting emissions tough

It has been four years since consumer goods giant Unilever announced its ambitious 'Sustainable Living Plan' and the report card is out. While it has done well on social indicators like improving comm...

18 May 2015

Unilever plan on track, but cutting emissions tough

News / Water

Water impact ignored in palm oil production: study

Significant erosion of freshwater quality has been added to the list of risks associated with palm oil cultivation, according to a recent study conducted by United States scientists, who focused on sm...

16 Jul 2014

Water impact ignored in palm oil production: study