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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

Press Releases / Cargill Asia Pacific

Cargill launches oil palm smallholder program in Malaysia

...smallholders. It is one of the first programs in Malaysia that is focused on sustainable palm oil production through partnerships with independent smallholders, palm oil dealers, mills and refi...

25 Jun 2013

Cargill launches oil palm smallholder program in Malaysia

News / Food & Agriculture

Climate change threatens your cup of coffee as soon as 2020

Areas suitable for coffee growing will decrease substantially by as soon as 2020 due to climate change impacts in major producing countries, a new report warns. "The situation is alarming," said the C...

3 Jul 2014

Climate change threatens your cup of coffee as soon as 2020

News / Policy & Finance

RI proposal to merge palm oil certifications gets warm welcome

...smallholders obtain the certificate.” Indonesia, which saw around 6.7 million of its population working in the palm oil sector last year, expects its palm oil output to rise to 28 million tons this ye...

11 Jun 2014

RI proposal to merge palm oil certifications gets warm welcome

Press Releases / UNEP Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific Bangkok

Smallholder Farmers Key to Lifting Over 1Billion People Out of Poverty

...smallholders depend so that it continues to support food security and rural development can be the answer to enhanced food security, environmental protection and poverty reduction. Smallholders have a...

6 Jun 2013

Smallholder Farmers Key to Lifting Over 1Billion People Out of Poverty

News / Food & Agriculture

Prioritise action over perfection: RSPO chief

...smallholders on palm oil is critical to achieving traceability back to plantations. However, the panel of experts emphasised that traceability was not a substitute for sustainability – it was simply a...

24 Nov 2014

Prioritise action over perfection: RSPO chief

Research / UNEP Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific Bangkok

Smallholders, food security, and the environment

Smallholders, food security, and the environment There are 1.4 billion poor people living on less than US$1.25 a day. One billion of them live in rural areas where agriculture is their main source of...

6 Jun 2013

Smallholders, food security, and the environment

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

A quiet transformation in climate change

It is estimated that the impact of climate change already reduces global GDP by 1.6 per cent every year. The Global Commission on Economy and Climate has noted that as temperatures warm towards a 2°C ...

24 Sep 2014

A quiet transformation in climate change

News / Food & Agriculture

Smallholder farmers key to new agricultural revolution

...Smallholders, Food Security and the Environment details the crucial role smallholder farmers play in the global scale. Smallholder farmers are farmers with small farms, operating roughly two hectares ...

6 Jun 2013

Smallholder farmers key to new agricultural revolution

News / Carbon & Climate

Smallholder farmers in Cameroon nearly ready for REDD+ — with a bit of help

A recent study of two villages in Cameroon indicates that small farmers there are not far from having the capacity to make REDD+ projects work in their communities. As the links between agriculture an...

18 Nov 2013

Smallholder farmers in Cameroon nearly ready for REDD+ — with a bit of help

News / Food & Agriculture

RSPO: The road ahead for palm oil

...smallholders groups from Indonesia and Malaysia, providing funding to a Dutch NGO under its RSPO Smallholders Support Fund that helps small-scale farmers increase the production of certified sustainab...

15 Jan 2014

RSPO: The road ahead for palm oil

Smallholder farmer in palm oil plantation

News / Food & Agriculture

‘No single silver bullet’ to address palm oil sustainability: experts

Major stakeholder groups in the palm oil sector found some common ground and issued a set of recommendations to improve the sector at the Responsible Business Forum on Sustainable Development in Singa...

27 Nov 2013

‘No single silver bullet’ to address palm oil sustainability: experts

News / Food & Agriculture

UN Global Compact launches six principles for sustainable food industry

...smallholders and small-and-medium enterprises. “ We welcome all farmers and agribusinesses – regardless of size, crop or location – to make this principle-based commitment and show their overall ori...

15 May 2014

UN Global Compact launches six principles for sustainable food industry

News / Food & Agriculture

New coalition to turn tea from drink to 'hero crop'

...smallholders and rural workers move to the city to seek better wages and lifestyles”. This means the industry has to provide smallholders and growers better benefits, such as helping them to achieve h...

25 Feb 2014

New coalition to turn tea from drink to 'hero crop'