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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

Ku Kok Peng, Kuala Lumpur Kepong Bhd, Malaysia

...smallholders and planters. That is very difficult and complicated for us, though over the next 18 months, we will try to identify the different types of platforms and technologies that we can use [to...

6 Jul 2023

...smallholders, transforming Global South countries into food importers vulnerable to price spikes. Financial power also buys narrative power, which can be used to praise the latest food tech. No one sh...

21 Jul 2023

...smallholders and make farming more climate-friendly, India is promoting organic and natural farming, encouraging diversification to cut dependence on one major crop and incentivising solar-powered wat...

22 Nov 2023

...smallholders, have embraced natural farming - up from 40,000 when the state government launched a "community-managed natural farming" scheme in 2015. Natural farming shuns synthetic fertilisers and pe...

22 Nov 2023

...smallholders. These locally influential individuals wield power and have access to the resources needed to establish significant oil palm plantations, according to RAN. Often this power stems from a p...

28 Mar 2023

Concerns over labour rights abuse in Malaysia’s palm oil sector has put the industry under scrutiny in recent years. In 2022, the Human Rights Commission of Malaysia (SUHAKAM) found that eight out of...

3 May 2024

...smallholders, who grow oil palm on land less than 50 hectares in area. The company’s palm commitment does acknowledge the need to include smallholders in supply chains but, based on its ACOP, it has n...

1 Sep 2022

Along Bangladesh's southern coast, farmers threatened by the impacts of climate change are striving to boost their resilience to rising salinity in the soil and water by growing salt-tolerant crops a...

25 Aug 2023

Although rice is a diet staple for many in Asia, the harvesting of the crop is fraught with many challenges, including decreasing yield productivity due to the effects of climate change and the pressu...

28 Apr 2022

Vanilla, a vining orchid, is arguably the second most expensive spice in the world, behind saffron, and seen by most farming communities as an extremely lucrative crop. Even though its commercial vari...

10 Oct 2023

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, director-general, World Trade Organization

The head of the World Trade Organization (WTO) has called for a global carbon tax and reforms to trade regulations to enable the world to meet decarbonisation goals this decade. Speaking at the World...

25 Jan 2023

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