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How farms are feeding the extinction of the world's wildlife

On April 3, the United Kingdom announced a ban on the sale of ivory that is “one of the toughest in the world.” By restricting the ivory trade, the UK joined other countries—including China and the Un...

9 七月 2018

How farms are feeding the extinction of the world's wildlife

新闻 / 粮食和农业

Scientists around the world are working to turn agricultural waste into food, packaging and more

When we pick up a piece of fruit, bar of chocolate or package of flour, we don’t often think of the massive amounts of agricultural waste — the stems, leaves, seed pods and more — that never make it o...

15 五月 2019

Scientists around the world are working to turn agricultural waste into food, packaging and more

新闻 / 粮食和农业

Have we overlooked the human side of palm oil production?

...smallholders, who produce about 40 per cent of the world’s palm oil but often do not have access to good quality seeds, fertiliser and knowledge about better agricultural practices, shares Neville. Sh...

1 八月 2018

Have we overlooked the human side of palm oil production?

观点 / 粮食和农业

How the gig economy can transform farms in the developing world

...Smallholders will have better knowledge of what and when to produce, and whom to deliver to. They can then market their produce to consumers with greater confidence, and consumers will know well ahead...

3 四月 2018

How the gig economy can transform farms in the developing world

Children in Laos get free school lunches in government and World Bank programme

观点 / 碳与气候

Climate action must not leave human rights behind

Seventy years ago, in the wake of World War II, the world emerged from one of its darkest times. This led the international community to send a clear message to future generations: “Never again!” Thro...

13 十二月 2018

Climate action must not leave human rights behind

观点 / 粮食和农业

Palm oil—can we enjoy it responsibly?

...smallholders and rolling out new technologies to several millions of farmers is very costly,” says Suwarganada. Another promising attempt to produce oil palm in a sustainable way comes from Colombia, ...

17 二月 2019

Palm oil—can we enjoy it responsibly?

Re-imagining a brighter future: green buildings with urban farming. Image: Olam International

新闻 / 碳与气候

What does battling climate change look like?

Global agri-business Olam International and Eco-Business have launched Re-imagining a Brighter Future, a global competition looking for inspiring photographs that show how people are fighting or adapt...

1 八月 2018

What does battling climate change look like?

新闻 / 政策和金融

Land rights to forest communities a must to control climate change

Forestry has become an increasingly important issue in South Asia, with the new Pakistani government touting the success of its “billion tree tsunami” in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa as a model for a “ten billi...

13 十二月 2018

Land rights to forest communities a must to control climate change

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Olam Prize for Innovation in Food Security 2019 winner announced

Singapore, June 6, 2019 – A unique mapping approach that will give smallholder farmers a ‘best fit’ for what to grow, where and how, has been awarded the 2019 Olam Prize for Innovati...

11 六月 2019

Olam Prize for Innovation in Food Security 2019 winner announced

workers in oil palm plantation in Malaysia

新闻 / 粮食和农业

Buy green palm oil or forests will suffer, industry warns

...smallholders achieve no deforestation by 2020, Ware added. The new RSPO rules run the risk of alienating smaller-scale palm oil producers, many of whom are already struggling to meet the old standards...

27 十一月 2018

Buy green palm oil or forests will suffer, industry warns

新闻 / 政策和金融

The coffee farmers betting on blockchain to boost business

On a bustling street near the shiny new international airport in Ethiopia's capital is a small coffee roastery with big dreams. Nearly 40 Ethiopians—a third of them women—sift, roast and package prize...

21 二月 2019

The coffee farmers betting on blockchain to boost business

观点 / 绿色建筑

Bamboo: Nature’s forgotten solution for green industry

...smallholders and policymakers. Speaking at a conference of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification, Paola Agostini of the World Bank summarised the problem: “I am convinced about bamboo, but we st...

18 二月 2019

Bamboo: Nature’s forgotten solution for green industry

新闻 / 粮食和农业

Why is it so hard to sell sustainable palm oil?

...smallholders. What options will a boycott leave them with? They can’t grow anything else, because of the density of palm oil cultivation. Their other option is either to burn that palm oil off, or mov...

5 十一月 2018

Why is it so hard to sell sustainable palm oil?

新闻 / 粮食和农业

Cash is best when tackling hunger caused by drought - study

Cash handouts are the best way to support smallholder farmers struggling due to drought, but for farmers experiencing wetter weather, agricultural inputs such as fertilisers and pesticides help most, ...

29 十一月 2017

Cash is best when tackling hunger caused by drought - study

新闻 / 粮食和农业

Olam introduces new tool for more transparent supply chains

Food manufacturers may soon be able to tell consumers exactly which farm their cashew nuts were grown in, with the help of a new traceability tool developed by Olam International for its clients. Unv...

19 四月 2018

Olam introduces new tool for more transparent supply chains

新闻 / 碳与气候

Vietnam’s new conservation plan prioritises trees and people, but not emissions

For nearly a decade now, Vietnam has made “payment for forest ecosystem services” its key strategy for protecting forests and improving the lives of poor rural communities. Now, it plans to use the sa...

13 三月 2020

Vietnam’s new conservation plan prioritises trees and people, but not emissions

观点 / 粮食和农业

Chocolate’s sustainability challenge

In the 1970s and 1980s, when multinational firms first linked sustainability to business success, the chief catalyst was vulnerability, not altruism. Consumer pressure, political boycotts, and costly ...

3 五月 2018

Chocolate’s sustainability challenge

A farmer inspects his crops in a drought-stricken farm land.

观点 / 粮食和农业

Why the next Tesla should take on agriculture

...smallholders’ incomes in the face of climate-related losses based on a weather-related index. With two billion smallholders bearing the brunt of billions of dollars of climate-related disasters, it re...

3 十一月 2017

Why the next Tesla should take on agriculture

A crop cutting experiment conducted on a sample zero budget natural farming field in Andra Pradesh, India. Image: Sustainable India Finance Facility

观点 / 粮食和农业

In soil-stressed India, it's time to swap chemical pesticides for natural farming

India's green revolution, a period from 1960s onwards that advocated the use of chemical fertilisers and pesticides to boost agriculture and food security, was useful in its time. But the time for a d...

8 二月 2019

In soil-stressed India, it's time to swap chemical pesticides for natural farming

新闻 / 粮食和农业

Is certification enough to protect Southeast Asia's forests?

There is no questioning the value that certification could bring to agroforestry, a sector lumbered with a range of issues from the abuse of indigenous people's rights and deforestation, to biodiversi...

9 五月 2018

Is certification enough to protect Southeast Asia's forests?

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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 …
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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.
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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 …
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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 …
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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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