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新闻 / 粮食和农业

Haze from forest fires, Indonesia’s national ‘embarrassment’, is back

Three years after forest fires in Indonesia sent huge volumes of smoke billowing into Malaysia and Singapore, the Southeast Asian neighbors are dealing with a repeat of the “embarrassing” transboundar...

8 八月 2019

Haze from forest fires, Indonesia’s national ‘embarrassment’, is back

新闻 / 碳与气候

Innovation rush aims to help farmers, rich and poor, beat climate change

In decades to come, African farmers may pool their money to buy small robot vehicles to weed their fields or drones that can hover to squirt a few drops of pesticide only where needed. Smartphones alr...

29 七月 2019

Innovation rush aims to help farmers, rich and poor, beat climate change

新闻 / 政策和金融

Land bill at centre of unrest in Indonesia

In late September, international news outlets caught flak for their coverage of Indonesia’s largest mass protests since the 1998 uprising that led to the fall of the dictator Suharto. Headlines publis...

4 十一月 2019

Land bill at centre of unrest in Indonesia

新闻 / 粮食和农业

Experts question wisdom that more food means less hunger

...smallholders. But we really need to question that," said Adrian Martin, a professor at Britain's University of East Anglia. One in nine people already do not have enough food and the world population ...

21 六月 2018

Experts question wisdom that more food means less hunger

新闻 / 粮食和农业

Indonesia’s sustainable districts bet on corporate deforestation pledges

...smallholders in particular, some sort of assurances that their efforts will be rewarded.” Coming together When Hernedi met Syahrani in 2016, she was working as the World Resources Institute’s (WRI) Su...

12 十一月 2018

Indonesia’s sustainable districts bet on corporate deforestation pledges

新闻 / 政策和金融

India promotes South-South cooperation, but key questions unaddressed

As the second week of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) Conference of Parties (COP) kicked off in Delhi, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi highlighted South-South cooperation and i...

10 九月 2019

India promotes South-South cooperation, but key questions unaddressed

workers in oil palm plantation in Malaysia

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Malaysian smallholders accuse EU of discrimination on palm oil ban

...smallholders claimed that the planned ban on palm oil will threaten 650,000 farmers and over 3.2 million Malaysians who depend on the palm oil industry for their livelihoods. The ire from Malaysian fa...

25 一月 2018

Malaysian smallholders accuse EU of discrimination on palm oil ban

Loose palm oil fruit on the estate of PT AMNL, West Kalimantan, Indonesia

新闻 / 粮食和农业

Europe's palm oil ban has no basis, says Sinar Mas boss Franky Widjaja

...smallholders about sustainable farming practices. Smallholders produce 40 per cent of the US$66 billion industry’s oil, but are held back by what Widjaja calls "very old" farming practices. Among them...

28 二月 2018

Europe's palm oil ban has no basis, says Sinar Mas boss Franky Widjaja

46 year-old former bank manager and mother of two Pornsiri Raknukul now runs her own RSPO-certified palm oil plantation in Southern Thailand. Image: RSPO

新闻 / 粮食和农业

What does sustainable palm oil mean to smallholders?

...smallholders produce 40 per cent of the US$66 billion industry’s oil, but only 14.5 per cent of the world’s sustainable palm oil. The potential for smallholders to grow palm oil in ways that avoid the...

30 一月 2018

What does sustainable palm oil mean to smallholders?

新闻 / 政策和金融

Indonesian candidates find common ground in support for palm oil

...smallholders’ share of the country’s palm plantations, which stands at about 40 per cent of the 120,000 square kilometres of planted palm estates, according to government data. But there’s a high degr...

22 二月 2019

Indonesian candidates find common ground in support for palm oil

观点 / 生活方式

Sustainable shopping: save the world, one chocolate at a time

...smallholders, especially in the Pacific region, simply do not use agrochemicals. It’s also more likely to be grown in heavily rainforested areas, with almost zero water footprint. “ With a bit of att...

2 四月 2018

Sustainable shopping: save the world, one chocolate at a time

新闻 / 碳与气候

24 hours for more sustainable todays and tomorrows

From sustainable landscape restoration that mitigates climate change, to tenure security and innovative financing tools, to climate-smart lifestyle changes, the agenda is wide and deep for an upcoming...

3 五月 2019

24 hours for more sustainable todays and tomorrows

新闻 / 粮食和农业

Bitter aftertaste? Food companies could face costly disputes over land in Africa

Food companies doing business in Africa risk becoming bogged down in decades-long legal disputes over land that could cost tens of millions of dollars, according to a report released on Monday. From s...

26 二月 2019

Bitter aftertaste? Food companies could face costly disputes over land in Africa

新闻 / 水

Poor people's right to water cut off by thirsty exports, unequal supply

Yogita has to fetch water up to six times a day - sometimes going out in the middle of the night - from a hand pump about half a kilometre from her house in India's Madhya Pradesh state, leaving her b...

20 三月 2019

Poor people's right to water cut off by thirsty exports, unequal supply

An Australian wheat field, by James Edwards/Wheat Initiative, CC BY-SA 2.0

新闻 / 粮食和农业

Grain on the blockchain: how digital supply chains are greening agriculture

...smallholders, pigs represent their livelihoods, says Ohlsson. "They’re used to pay dowries, for financial security. They're incredibly valuable and well taken care of, but that value is reflected by t...

10 五月 2019

Grain on the blockchain: how digital supply chains are greening agriculture

deforestation imports impact Indonesia's forests

新闻 / 粮食和农业

The future of forests: How to balance development with conservation?

...smallholders can be more productive, as long as that doesn’t create a massive incentive to open up even more forest, they can be part of the solution. A rubber plantation in Bintan, Indonesia. Image:...

21 五月 2019

The future of forests: How to balance development with conservation?

新闻 / 粮食和农业

What 2018 has in store for sustainable palm oil

...smallholders to complete the certification process. “The clock has already started ticking for us in 2018,” says Webber. “It will take a few years to completely roll out since there are millions of sm...

7 三月 2018

What 2018 has in store for sustainable palm oil

新闻 / 粮食和农业

Abandoned by banks, Indonesia's poor farmers turn to crowdfunding

...smallholders with less than 2 hectares (5 acres) of land each. The majority of farmers in the region face an uphill battle to access credit, leaving them unable to modernise, boost yields, diversify i...

12 十月 2018

Abandoned by banks, Indonesia's poor farmers turn to crowdfunding

新闻 / 政策和金融

A forest beset by oil palms, logging, now contends with a coal-trucking road

A biodiverse patch of forest in Sumatra threatened by encroaching oil palm plantations and illegal logging could soon be carved up by a road for coal trucks. The Harapan forest spans 769 square kilome...

29 五月 2019

A forest beset by oil palms, logging, now contends with a coal-trucking road

Palm oil plantation in Kalimantan, Indonesia

新闻 / 政策和金融

EU parliament unfazed by trade fight over palm biofuel phase-out

...smallholders who produce palm oil in a sustainable way, Eickhout said. By incentivizing these producers, he said, “we can promote the sustainable versions.” Eickhout said the nuances of the policy wer...

15 十月 2019

EU parliament unfazed by trade fight over palm biofuel phase-out

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新闻 / 粮食和农业

Musim Mas stalwart Carolyn Lim joins palm oil rival Golden Agri-Resources

Lim has joined GAR to lead sustainability operations. Rob Nicholls has also left Musim Mas after several years …
新闻 / 碳与气候

Eight global climate tech start-ups to vie for S$4M in funding at The Liveability Challenge 2026

Ideas to keep cities cool and slash emissions were shortlisted in a record-breaking year for entries.
新闻 / 能源

Renewables shift needed as Iran war exposes Asia’s fragile energy market: experts

As oil and gas firms reap windfall profits from wartime price spikes, regional climate advocates urge governments to …
观点 / 粮食和农业

Securing Asean’s food resilience amid the Middle East conflict

The Middle East conflict will have a double-whammy impact on Asean’s fertiliser imports and energy-intensive fertiliser production. The …
新闻 / 垃圾管理

Iran war rips through Asia’s plastics market, boosting demand for recycled resin

A "huge" increase in demand for recycled plastic as virgin prices spike is complicated by stock availability, rising …
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Former WWF sustainable finance head Kristina Anguelova joins The Nature Conservancy

Anguelova will work on establishing policies and partnerships for international carbon trading, based in Singapore.

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