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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

News / Food & Agriculture

RSPO Smallholders Support Fund applications total RM3.36 million

...smallholders towards RSPO certification, both in Malaysia and internationally. We hope to see more applications from smallholders this year," she said in a statement to Bernama. RSSF said smallholders...

10 Feb 2014

RSPO Smallholders Support Fund applications total RM3.36 million

Press Releases / Olam International

SRI methodology wins Olam Prize for Innovation in Food Security

Olam International, a leading global agri-business operating across the value chain in 65 countries, is pleased to announce that the Olam International Prize for Innovation in Food Security has been a...

20 Mar 2015

SRI methodology wins Olam Prize for Innovation in Food Security

News / Carbon & Climate

El Niño does hit the monsoon, but some links still missing

Fears of the impact of a strong El Niño – the warming of the central to eastern tropical Pacific Ocean waters – on South Asia’s monsoon system seem to have been confirmed by deficit rains in the regio...

28 Aug 2015

El Niño does hit the monsoon, but some links still missing

Videos / Carbon & Climate

Fake Doritos ad pressures Pepsi over palm oil policy

...smallholders, and commit to labor standards and conflict resolution processes. "Rainforests across Southeast Asia are destroyed every day to make way for massive palm oil plantations," said Kaytee Rie...

19 Jan 2015

Fake Doritos ad pressures Pepsi over palm oil policy

News / Food & Agriculture

Is this Malaysian palm oil firm still destroying forest in Borneo — and selling to Wilmar?

The Malaysian-owned palm oil company Genting Plantations has again been accused of clearing ecologically important secondary forest in Indonesia’s West Kalimantan province according to a recent report...

11 Feb 2016

Is this Malaysian palm oil firm still destroying forest in Borneo — and selling to Wilmar?

News / Policy & Finance

'Trying to follow the money': Opacity rules in Southeast Asia's land rush, finds study

As the rush for land in Southeast Asia continues at breakneck speed, often bringing with it social and environmental destruction, a new study by a major environmental research group explores how well ...

16 Jun 2015

'Trying to follow the money': Opacity rules in Southeast Asia's land rush, finds study

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

Fighting haze and deforestation in our own backyard

...smallholders to clear land by burning. Timber and oil palm planted on cleared land are supplied to large firms and, throughout the supply chain, many benefit from the burning - still the cheapest way ...

30 Sep 2015

Fighting haze and deforestation in our own backyard

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

What would it take to mainstream "alternative" agriculture?

The industrialized food system, studies have shown, is linked to greenhouse gas emissions, algal blooms, pesticide pollution, soil erosion and biodiversity loss, to name a few ecological troubles. Add...

27 Jul 2016

What would it take to mainstream "alternative" agriculture?

News / Corporate Responsibility

Strategic value creation: Asia's new CSR frontier

For many decades, charitable giving to social causes has been a mainstay of the global corporate social responsibility (CSR) movement. But more businesses are realising that traditional philanthropy ...

2 Sep 2015

Strategic value creation: Asia's new CSR frontier

News / Carbon & Climate

Industrial concessions causing massive deforestation in Cambodia

Land concessions for large-scale agricultural plantations are stripping off Cambodia’s forest cover, according to a new report by Forest Trends, a US-based environmental protection group. By the end o...

28 Aug 2015

Industrial concessions causing massive deforestation in Cambodia

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