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...smallholders and also some producers that will keep deforesting. It’s part of their rotation system…So zero deforestation, I think, is something hard to reach. But I think we can have deforestation at...

29 Nov 2024

Despite the year 2024 promising a fresh start for the world, the challenges experienced in the first three years of the decade continue to linger. The aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic, geopolitical...

9 Jan 2024

Panellists at Google Sustainability Summit – Net Zero Through Digitalisation in Singapore

According to a Google Cloud Sustainability Survey, sustainability dropped from being the top organisational priority last year to being the third priority this year. The study, which polled almost 1,...

13 Jun 2023

An Indian export ban on non-basmati rice has spurred calls to pursue greater self-sufficiency among rice-consuming countries and expand rice production to new areas such as Africa for increased food r...

14 Nov 2023

...smallholders. The role of climate change Climate scientists have said that the rainfall that caused last year’s floods may have been around 50 per cent more intense thanks to climate change. However, ...

16 Jan 2023

Cleantech solutions, like those developed by the fifteen finalists of this year’s Earthshot Prize, tend to be risk- and capital-intensive. To develop their technology and scale impact, startups in the...

16 Oct 2024

Haze air pollution from burning peatlands blankets the landscape in Riau

...smallholders and the presence of large agribusiness firms operating on drained peatlands posing a chronic haze risk. The coming months will serve as “a good test” of the government’s peatland restorat...

9 Aug 2023

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19 Oct 2022

Across fast-growing Southeast Asia, Singapore’s push to build itself as a global hub for alternative proteins might have received the most attention, but over the past year, the sector has started to ...

8 Dec 2023

In October 2021, two tractors with a large chain stretched between them cleared more than 2,000 hectares of forest in the Brazilian Cerrado, one of the world’s most biodiverse areas. Tragically, such ...

24 Aug 2022

CIMB sets 2030 targets for palm oil and power, advancing its sustainability journey towards net zero by 2050

...smallholders, and workers are safeguarded. CIMB is the first bank globally to have announced a science-based Net Zero decarbonisation pathway for the Palm Oil sector. As part of the process, CIMB acti...

24 Nov 2023

Koltiva announces over-subscribed funding round to expand transparency capabilities in agri sector

Koltiva, an Indonesia-based tech start-up focused on agriculture supply chains has announced an undisclosed investment from impact investors Silverstrand Capital with additional ...

22 Sep 2022

...smallholders] say to me: ‘Miss, I have to work hard just to eat. You are asking me to do this [implement better labour practices], which will impact my bottom line." Nurul Hasanah, head of group susta...

6 Dec 2022

Pandawa Agri Indonesia partners with Rabo Foundation to aid smallholders in Eastern Indonesia

...smallholders with a total land area of 97 hectares in Mbay Sub-District, Nagekeo Regency, East Nusa Tenggara. This smallholders sustainable agriculture initiative will continue and is targeted to cove...

24 Jun 2022

As droughts and floods wreak havoc on harvests, small-scale farmers are spending billions of dollars of their own money each year to adapt to a changing climate, despite it being a problem they did n...

15 Nov 2023

Aformer head of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) used to describe the annual climate summit as “the only circus in town”. It may not be good enough to control climate change, he ...

29 Nov 2023

In the battle to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions and avert the worst impacts of climate change, the world has a vast resource that remains largely untapped: women. Preventing the catastrophic effects ...

6 Jul 2023

...smallholders have protested the law, with industry growers saying that it could render sustainable palm oil certification irrelevant. Bek-Nielsen’s appointment as MPOC chairman is effective 1 May 2023...

27 Mar 2023

AGRA, Grow Asia enter collaboration agreement to drive South-South cooperation between Africa, Asia

AGRA and Grow Asia have signed a collaboration agreement to accelerate food system transformation in Africa and Asia. Grounded in the spirit of South-South Cooperation between the leading agri-food pl...

27 Oct 2022

In Cambodia’s Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary, spanning 490,000 hectares, expansive tracts of protected forest are being illegally converted to cassava, cashew and rubber plantations. Husband and wife Pi...

22 Apr 2024

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