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Press Releases / Cargill Asia Pacific

Cargill launches poultry farming mentorship program in Indonesia

Bogor, West Java, Indonesia – May 29, 2013 – PT. Cargill Indonesia has announced a poultry farming mentorship program that provides hands-on training to high school students. As part of th...

3 Jun 2013

Cargill launches poultry farming mentorship program in Indonesia

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

Why palm oil isn’t the enemy

If you watched last night’s premiere of “Years of Living Dangerously,” the new Showtime series about the impacts of climate change, you likely found yourself thinking palm oil’s pretty bad stuff. As C...

21 Apr 2014

Why palm oil isn’t the enemy

News / Food & Agriculture

Climate threat to Southern Africa’s crops

...smallholders who depend on rainfall to water their crops. “Greater variations in precipitation patterns increase the likelihood of crop failures and long-run production declines,” says the study. Acro...

12 Sep 2013

Climate threat to Southern Africa’s crops

Press Releases / Sunlabob Renewable Energy, Ltd.

Solar-equipped Environmental Education Vehicles Launched in Laos

Vientiane, Laos – This week, two vehicles featuring solar-powered electronics and multimedia systems designed and installed by Sunlabob Renewable Energy were unveiled by the Lao PDR’s Mini...

15 Nov 2013

Solar-equipped Environmental Education Vehicles Launched in Laos

News / Food & Agriculture

‘Landscapes approach’ could alleviate West Africa climate change woes – scientists

An integrated approach to land management that ensures sustainable policies could help agriculture-dependent West Africa cope with the looming effects of climate change, a panel of experts proposed. C...

13 Dec 2013

‘Landscapes approach’ could alleviate West Africa climate change woes – scientists

News / Food & Agriculture

‘Climate smart’ agricultural practices may not always be climate smart – scientist

Climate and farmer-smart farming can slow emissions and reduce the risk of global warming, but policymakers and practitioners should be careful not to assume that higher crop yields automatically redu...

21 Nov 2013

‘Climate smart’ agricultural practices may not always be climate smart – scientist

Forest fire in Pekanbaru, Riau, Indonesia

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Fires in Indonesia spike to highest levels since June 2013 haze emergency

...smallholders. Certainly, poor farmers lack alternatives to the use of fire when clearing their land. They may also use fire to deliberately damage or claim land controlled by larger companies. Such la...

14 Mar 2014

Fires in Indonesia spike to highest levels since June 2013 haze emergency

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

Food + energy = crisis?

...smallholders are only a fraction of those possible under modern intensive farming conditions. “ So, to feed 11 billion people without destroying nature, we must intensify farming. But because intensi...

4 Apr 2014

Food + energy = crisis?

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

The family farming revolution

...smallholders and medium scale farmers, peasants, indigenous peoples, traditional communities, fisher folk, pastoralists, collectors and many others. Much of the world’s experience in sustainable farmi...

13 Jan 2014

The family farming revolution

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Assured mutual dependence

LONDON – During the Cold War, the certainty of “mutually assured destruction” steered the nuclear arms race away from catastrophe: a would-be attacker would face immediate retaliation, inevitably endi...

5 Feb 2014

Assured mutual dependence

News / Carbon & Climate

Palm oil under pressure

...smallholders received RSPO certification. Cargill then marketed their certificates so they could receive money from them. In January 2012, the smallholders received the first payout of US$120,000 (Rp1...

29 Apr 2013

Palm oil under pressure

News / Food & Agriculture

New Palm Oil Innovation Group set to address haze issue

...smallholders who take the blame when land is cleared by burning. “ With only a handful of participants, the POIG is a fraction of the size of the RSPO, which includes more than 1,000 members. But t...

1 Jul 2013

New Palm Oil Innovation Group set to address haze issue

News / Carbon & Climate

RSPO vows probe into members tied to fires

Police in Sumatra’s Riau province now have nine people in custody for setting forest fires that have blanketed the region and neighboring countries in haze, an official said on Tuesday. Brig. Gen. Ron...

27 Jun 2013

RSPO vows probe into members tied to fires

News / Food & Agriculture

RSPO certification for smallholders

...smallholders in key markets such as Indonesia, Thailand and West Africa. The RSPO had also set aside 300,000 euros to encourage smallholders to certify their plantations, said RSPO secretary-general D...

22 Jun 2012

RSPO certification for smallholders

News / Carbon & Climate

Farmers seek new income from Fairtrade carbon credits

...smallholders to access the carbon market and receive much-needed finance to mitigate and adapt to climate change, the organisations said. Click here to read the full story.

11 Jan 2013

Farmers seek new income from Fairtrade carbon credits

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

Getting our act together: Sustainability in the Malaysian palm oil industry

...smallholders, such as improved working conditions and a better way of life: Image: Solidaridad It is therefore essential that we make the right decision: that is, forego the misperception that respon...

14 Mar 2014

Getting our act together: Sustainability in the Malaysian palm oil industry

News / Food & Agriculture

Keresa Plantations grows on RSPO practices, smallholder co-operatives

...smallholders, Kumaran said, “Currently, Keresa Plantations has formed Keresa Smallholders Group Scheme (KSGS). In the master plan, we have planned to attract all smallholders that sending FFB to KMSB ...

3 May 2012

Keresa Plantations grows on RSPO practices, smallholder co-operatives

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Fire and haze in Riau: Looking beyond the hotspots

...smallholders’, as has also been observed by the World Agroforestry Centre. Clearly, we don’t have the full picture of these investment trends – who is behind them, to what extent the investments are l...

23 Sep 2013

Fire and haze in Riau: Looking beyond the hotspots

News / Carbon & Climate

Haze hits hazardous levels, Singapore and Indonesia at war of words

The haze in Singapore reached hazardous levels on Thursday afternoon, with the Pollutant Standards Index (PSI) hitting a new record of 371 at 1pm. Visibility was poor in most parts of the island and t...

20 Jun 2013

Haze hits hazardous levels, Singapore and Indonesia at war of words

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

Feeding the world with a mix of science and tradition

The biotech industry has long sought legitimacy by claiming that its genetically modified crop technologies are “feeding the world”. However this relentless focus on increasing food production ignores...

11 Jul 2013

Feeding the world with a mix of science and tradition