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...smallholders contracted to work for big palm oil companies, known as "plasma" smallholders, will find compliance easier than independent smallholders, who are often blamed for deforestation and starti...

27 六月 2023

Farmers using solar conduction dryer S4S Technologies Earthshot Prize

...smallholders increase profits by up to 15 per cent through selling dried goods. It wants to reach three million farmers by 2025, and in the year after, reduce food waste by a total of 1.2 million tonn...

17 十一月 2023

Asia Pacific has seen some of the fastest gains in health and human development in the past decades. Yet as traditional paths to development face global pressures, experts are increasingly emphasising...

12 八月 2025

...smallholders’ land. Plasma land provision to local communities is crucial to avoid land conflicts. An example is the dispute between PT Tapian Nadeggan and the local community in the Nanau sub-distric...

10 五月 2024

...smallholders competing for an already very low rubber price.” She adds that it is “absolutely” critical that the EU deforestation regulators distinguish between farmers renewing existing rubber planta...

19 十月 2023

Some 10,000 kilometres from the rolling tea fields of east China, tea farmers in Kenya are fighting climate change using Chinese know-how. From planting trees to organically fertilising, tea plantatio...

9 五月 2025

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...smallholders. “We are trying to transform agronomy practices and go more towards agro-ecology,” says Jean-Pierre Caliman, director of the group’s research and development arm, SMARTRI. “Soil cover is ...

7 十月 2024

By many accounts, the 29th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP29) was a disappointment. Not only did it fail to reach an agreement on the follow...

6 十二月 2024

...smallholders. “More recently, governments have taken a backseat and the private sector has been speaking up about what they want to be defined as sustainable production.” The EUDR is the first large-s...

18 七月 2023

The fabric of our global food system is fraying under the strain of climate change and an ever-expanding population. To prevent it from unraveling, we must embrace distributed renewable-energy solutio...

18 九月 2023

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Famed for its Sun Temple dedicated to the sun god, Modhera in Gujarat state became India's first fully solar-powered village in 2022, but a legal case against the plant is still in court as residents...

22 十一月 2024

...Smallholders Smallholders are typically seen as the weakest link in the supply chain, lacking access to the best land to cultivate, or the technical and logistical resources that commercial oil palm e...

8 六月 2023

...smallholders lacked sufficient water during dry years. And similar trends have been observed in California, where a small proportion of water-rights holders control a significant amount of available w...

18 十月 2024

A palm oil plantation next to tropical forests in Indonesia.

...smallholders unable to comply with stringent new rules. Maulizal was talking at the launch of the Farmers For Forest Protection Foundation (4F), which was set up by Indonesia's palm oil smallholders u...

2 八月 2023

...smallholders, while the United States has reportedly asked the EU last month to postpone the measure.

6 七月 2024

Singapore International Foundation announces first project of its Southeast Asia Partnership for Adaptation through Water (SEAPAW) in East Malaysia

The Singapore International Foundation (SIF), in collaboration with the World Economic Forum, today announced its first project of the Southeast Asia Partnership for Adaptation through Water (SEAPAW)....

20 十一月 2024

When Natasha Zulaikha was conducting her doctorate research on human-elephant conflict in Malaysia, a group of respondents in the study stood out: palm oil smallholders. Interacting with these locals...

1 三月 2024

...smallholders that use traditional slash-and-burn techniques to clear land for planting, RAN found that those responsible for chopping forests in the reserve are powerful "land speculators". The report...

11 十一月 2024

...smallholders accounting for 40 per cent. Coconut, by contrast, is almost entirely grown by smallholders on farms of less than two hectares. In fact, the Coconut Knowledge Center estimates that smallho...

24 七月 2023

Many people enjoy a hot cup of coffee to start their day or to relax during the weekends, making coffee one of the most heavily traded commodities in the world. As the world's third-largest producer o...

29 五月 2023

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