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Press Releases / CSR Asia Ltd.

Conflicts over land in Asia

...smallholders and fair practices in integrating small producers in value chains is a key focus for sustainable business practices in both agriculture and aquaculture where small producers often lose ou...

2 Jul 2014

Conflicts over land in Asia

News / Carbon & Climate

Four ways to support locally controlled forestry and benefit people and the planet

...smallholders and increasing the scale of production and the quality of products; identifying adequate models of cooperation for smallholders, such as through cooperatives, federations and other arrang...

23 May 2014

Four ways to support locally controlled forestry and benefit people and the planet

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

China farming boom has left ecosystems in danger of total collapse

...smallholders, probably involving a more efficient coordination between agencies. Global problem But there’s a larger-scale context to this problem that may affect us all. China’s grain production has ...

27 Feb 2015

China farming boom has left ecosystems in danger of total collapse

Press Releases / CottonConnect

Cotton sustainability: Significant opportunity for brands in China

CottonConnect says the shifting cotton market in China offers a valuable window of opportunity for international companies to invest and build a more resilient cotton supply in one of the world’...

26 Feb 2015

Cotton sustainability: Significant opportunity for brands in China

News / Corporate Responsibility

Olam charts new path towards responsible growth

Please tell us, in a sentence, what it is you do. In my role as global head of corporate and sustainability communications, I am tasked with building and protecting reputational capital for Olam Inte...

13 Apr 2015

Olam charts new path towards responsible growth

News / Food & Agriculture

RSPO orders Golden Agri to stop new palm oil development

The Roundtable for Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) on Wednesday ordered Singapore-based palm oil giant Golden Agri-Resources to prove that its operations on a controversial concession in Indonesia have ad...

9 May 2015

RSPO orders Golden Agri to stop new palm oil development

News / Food & Agriculture

PepsiCo signs contract-farming MoU with VN potato growers

PepsiCo Foods Vietnam Co (PFVC) has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Vietnamese Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (DARD) and the Phivang Collaboration of Farmers in Vietnam ...

13 Oct 2014

PepsiCo signs contract-farming MoU with VN potato growers

News / Food & Agriculture

5 things about palm oil expansion in the Philippines

...smallholders in planting this crop, which is different from their usual produce of either coconut, sugar, cacao and others. The working group recommended that the government increase education and tra...

30 Jul 2014

5 things about palm oil expansion in the Philippines

News / Food & Agriculture

New ZSL toolkit boosts transparency for palm oil

...smallholders and the locations of mill sites to aid traceability and accountability. “We hope that more oil palm growers will consider their scores on the toolkit and discuss this with us,” said Horne...

19 Nov 2014

New ZSL toolkit boosts transparency for palm oil

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

Who will pay for ecosystem services?

...smallholders will always be the wobbly leg on the PES negotiation table. While some exciting examples show how finance can be tapped, care needs to be in place. Deals must be fair, with meaningful inc...

29 Jan 2014

Who will pay for ecosystem services?

News / Food & Agriculture

Biofuel development should not compromise food security, says CFS

...smallholders." The 7-11 October meeting drew nearly 750 people, including over 130 government delegations, 100 civil society and 50 private sector organizations. Following the talks, the CFS also agr...

14 Oct 2013

Biofuel development should not compromise food security, says CFS

News / Carbon & Climate

Using a cross-sectoral landscapes approach to improve forest livelihoods

...smallholders all over the world already use a landscape approach to managing resources, and the good news for them is that we have now, at last, actively embraced it too,” said Christine Padoch, direc...

21 Nov 2013

Using a cross-sectoral landscapes approach to improve forest livelihoods

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

The GMO dilemma

“The first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind.” So said Norman Borlaug. Borlaug, a biologist and Nobel laureate, has been credited with saving a billion lives. Thro...

8 Jul 2014

The GMO dilemma

News / Policy & Finance

Land rights: Both prerequisite and incentive for smallholder-based REDD+

...smallholders are often not the primary drivers of Amazonian deforestation – but they are a part of the picture, as clearing the forest is often used as a way to establish rights to land. In fact, Braz...

5 Nov 2013

Land rights: Both prerequisite and incentive for smallholder-based REDD+

Press Releases / CSR Asia Ltd.

Lifting the lid on the cocoa industry

...Smallholders can find better returns growing other commodities. Consumers, who have a growing passion for chocolate products, will ultimately pay a greater price if the industry does not shift to an i...

11 Jul 2014

Lifting the lid on the cocoa industry

News / Carbon & Climate

Wilmar assures S'wak it will continue to buy crude palm oil

...smallholders and farmers to develop NCR land sustainably, irrespective of whether it was peat land or not. “We will also look into working with your various government agencies to look into areas bein...

7 Mar 2014

Wilmar assures S'wak it will continue to buy crude palm oil

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

How to stop climate change making food less nutritious?

In Africa, where some 280 million people are already malnourished, any further difficulty in accessing nutritious food will be a problem. Africa has more stunted children today than it did 20 years ag...

22 Jul 2014

How to stop climate change making food less nutritious?

News / Food & Agriculture

Top 5 need-to-knows about conservation agriculture

...smallholders to scale-up production. This support should include legal land tenure, global policies for a level playing field, access to capital and markets, structured training, and investment in tec...

7 Aug 2014

Top 5 need-to-knows about conservation agriculture

News / Food & Agriculture

Palawan palm oil presence likely to grow, industry rep denies harmful impact

Plans to convert eight million hectares of land for palm oil production on Palawan island in the Philippines have been met with opposition from environmental and social advocacy groups, with a petitio...

2 Jan 2015

Palawan palm oil presence likely to grow, industry rep denies harmful impact

News / Corporate Responsibility

Cargill launches sustainability programme for oil palm smallholders

...smallholders, mainly from the state of Perak, in the course of three years. Currently, there are about 177,000 oil palm smallholders in Malaysia operating on 14 per cent of the country’s total oil pa...

26 Jun 2013

Cargill launches sustainability programme for oil palm smallholders

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