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...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

Climate disinformation – where scientific data is misrepresented to erode trust in climate science – has been around since the 1980s, when fossil fuel companies ran advertorials in newspapers denying ...

23 Aug 2023

Digital agriculture_Pinduoduo_food waste

When agriculture first took root around 12,000 years ago, it triggered a change in how people lived. Dubbed the “Neolithic Revolution", the promise of a reliable food supply enabled humans to give up...

8 Apr 2022

...smallholders, earning about 10,000 rupees per month. Investments in renewable energies are often unaffordable, except for groups of farmers. An exception, Nishad has set up a small centre outside the ...

21 Jul 2023

Prince William unveils 15 global finalists for the 2023 Earthshot Prize

Prince William and The Earthshot Prize have announced the 15 Finalists for this year’s Prize at the second Earthshot Innovation Summit, an event hosted in partnership with Bloomberg Philanthropi...

23 Sep 2023

A press conference at the AVPN Global Conference in Bali

...smallholders of millions owed to them. Legally, palm oil companies have had to ensure that rural communities benefit from the large palm oil plantations near them. Geall said that the palm oil trade h...

26 Aug 2022

A shift towards permanent “crisis resilience” from short-term aid is crucial to mitigate increasingly frequent shocks to the global food system and tackle rising global hunger, say food policy researc...

21 Apr 2023

In fast-growing Dhaka, which is losing what is left of its green spaces and water bodies to urban development, residents are rallying to protect their environment and fight climate change. In May, wh...

2 Aug 2023

A smallholder farmer in Central Kalimantan prepares seedlings for planting

Last year, 11 million hectares of tropical tree cover disappeared. If forests continue to be lost at the current rate, they will be mostly be gone by the end of the century, scientists warn. A new typ...

4 Aug 2022

Saleh Kadri, a young farmer from Leubok Pusaka village in North Aceh district, was on his way to his plantation when he spotted eight elephants on the riverbank. From his canoe, he recorded a video wi...

15 Aug 2022

...smallholders and is frequently done illegally. “That’s why it’s important to have a project on the ground taking care of an area. Otherwise, they just sneak in and start clearing,” he adds. Model for ...

23 Feb 2023

Joseph D'Cruz, chief executive, Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO)

...smallholders; building a sector that provides sustainability for these smallholders is a huge opportunity and an important challenge. What about the big markets, India — the world's biggest consumer o...

20 Jun 2022

RGE closes inaugural US$550 million sustainability-linked derivative with MUFG

Royal Golden Eagle (RGE), a global group of resource-based manufacturing companies, has announced that its member company Apical Group (Apical), a global leading processor of vegetable oil, has closed...

6 Feb 2023

German agrochemicals firm Bayer has appointed Cherie Tan from Asia Pacific Rayon (APR) to lead the company's sustainability, public affairs and science function in Asia Pacific. She joins a company wi...

23 Feb 2022

These “genetically modified organisms” (GMOs) are planted extensively across swathes of North and South America, in particular, but remain strictly limited in many countries. However, these stringent ...

7 Jun 2024

The pumping up of groundwater by Bangladesh’s 16 million smallholder farmers has led to a massive storage capture of underground reservoirs rivalling the storage capacity of the world’s large dams, ac...

4 Oct 2022

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