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...smallholders, most of whom are registered with cooperatives, Maiprae says. This includes 9,665 smallholders who meet FSC certification standards. Working with collection centres organised under cooper...

24 Jun 2026

Carolyn Lim, head of sustainability operations, Golden Agri-Resources

...smallholders unit. Image: Musim Mas Also leaving Musim Mas is Rob Nichols, who led the company’s highly-regarded smallholders division for eight years, training farmers with small plots of land in su...

2 Apr 2026

...smallholders are not left behind in the sustainability transition. National Association of Smallholders Malaysia (NASH) president Adzmi Hassan said that while smallholders play a vital role in Malaysi...

7 Nov 2025

...smallholders in Wilmar’s Indonesian supply chain said land legality and documentation remain a critical issue as many smallholders are still pending their formal land titles. This makes it challenging...

6 Nov 2025

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...smallholders least equipped to bear them. "How have they helped these growers, including the smallholders? All that they have done so far is to demonstrate that they are very good at layering impracti...

17 Apr 2026

...smallholders must remain central to the global sustainability agenda, as they are often the most affected by market barriers and policy decisions made without their input. D’Cruz stressed that inclusi...

11 Nov 2025

...smallholders. How is Golden Agri including smallholders in its sustainability ambitions? We run our own mills across our own plantations, but as production has declined in some of those areas, we are ...

5 Dec 2025

RSPO China Forum_buyers and suppliers panel

...smallholders. Smallholders in Southeast Asia, who collectively manage a significant portion of palm oil plantations, often face limited access to financial resources. Without adequate funding, many s...

24 Oct 2025

A smallholder oil palm farmer in Indonesia moves fresh fruit bunches.

...smallholders rather than bringing them along. That is where change is needed – not just more delays. Carolyn Lim, head of corporate communications, Musim Mas Indonesia pushes for exemptions for small...

24 Sep 2025

...smallholders and low-income vehicle owners. At the time, the Brent crude price was USD65 per barrel, with subsidies roughly at USD700 million per month, including for diesel. The conflict in Iran has ...

8 Jun 2026

With the start of the summer season in Nepal, farmers are worried about keeping their grain safe from extreme heat and insect infestation. But at Chattrapati Yadav’s home in Dang in western Nepal, tha...

7 May 2026

50 cities for climate action: avoiding and adapting to a 50°C world

More than 50 cities across the world have joined UNEP's new 50@50 activation to confront one of the world’s fastest-growing and deadliest climate risks: extreme heat. Launched on Heat Acti...

2 Jun 2026

...smallholders who lease land, the decision to change crops is often not up to them. “Owners decide what to grow,” says Mohammad Rasid, a tenant farmer in Gorgoria, a village in Pakri. His landlord uses...

14 May 2026

...smallholders and small food businesses in meeting sustainability requirements, through transfers of agricultural technologies and capacity building. If China establishes mutual recognition of sustaina...

19 Feb 2026

Is the agriculture sector fated to die out? Globally, the average age of farmers has been steadily creeping up, approaching 60 in developed countries. This leaves the sector, which supplies roughly ...

29 Sep 2025

When Thales Bevilacqua Mendonça left his farm in Brazil's southern Paraná state to fly five hours north to attend the UN climate talks in Belém, it was unseasonably cold, just 7 degrees Celsius (44 d...

20 Nov 2025

British International Investment exceeds US$1 billion climate commitment in India

British International Investment (BII), the UK's development finance institution (DFI) and impact investor, today announced that it has exceeded its ambitious commitment to invest US$1 billion in clim...

19 Feb 2026

The Philippines and Singapore have struck their first Article 6 carbon credit deal, setting up a legal framework for trading emissions cuts between the two countries nearly two years after talks bega...

12 May 2026

New RSPO-certified smallholder groups 2024

...smallholders will not be recognised. Similar to how carbon offsets work, RSPO credits are purchased by consumer goods brands to compensate for uncertified palm oil used in their products, allowing sma...

21 Nov 2024

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