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The third iteration of global environmental innovation competition The Earthshot Prize culminated on Tuesday evening with the United Kingdom’s Prince William lauding the 2023 slate of winners for the ...

10 十一月 2023

...smallholders say they are forced to cut employee costs because of tough market conditions. They cite dwindling water supplies and rising fertilizer prices, as well as competition from North Africa an...

5 十一月 2024

AI-enabled farming to reach 500,000 smallholder farmers in Asia

New partnership between Syngenta Asia Pacific and Plantix will provide farmers across Asia with access to artificial intelligence-enabled farming Syngenta and image recognition specialist, Plantix, h...

28 十一月 2022

ADB loan to support Philippine agriculture sector reforms

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a US$500 million policy-based loan to help the Government of the Philippines expand economic opportunities in agriculture while ensuring near- to long-t...

8 二月 2023

A farmer protesting in the city of Ghazipur, Uttar Pradesh.

Ramdas Udane, a 58 year-old small-scale cotton farmer who works his fields on the Deccan Plateau, is grappling with mounting debt. His hopes of repaying the $10,000 he owes to a private lender diminis...

2 二月 2024

Air pollution spoils the view from a high-rise building in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia

As toxic smoke from burning peatlands billows across Southeast Asia, environmental campaign group Greenpeace has called on the region's governments to introduce domestic laws to combat transboundary a...

3 十月 2023

...smallholders get access to agricultural services, financial services, markets. Independent smallholder oil palm farmers – that is, smallholders not affiliated to any particular company or mill – acc...

30 八月 2022

Perpetua George, outgoing sustainability head at Wilmar International

The general manager of group sustainability for Singapore-headquartered food processing and investment holding company Wilmar International, Perpetua George, has left the company after more than eight...

21 八月 2023

The world is heating up, and Asia remains the fastest-warming region, with temperatures rising more rapidly than the global average. The continent is also the world’s most-disaster affected due to wea...

3 七月 2024

USAID Philippines humanitarian assistance

The world has been reeling from the devastating impact of United States president Donald Trump’s abrupt suspension of foreign aid since end-January. While the Trump administration has claimed that it ...

16 四月 2025

Even before geopolitics and cultural polarisation made environmental, social and governance (ESG) a touchy subject, the concept had become "very muddled", observes Ankit Todi, chief sustainability off...

8 四月 2025

...smallholders’ land contract rights must be maintained to protect equity. If such transfers were made easier, then an increase in income of only 200 yuan per mu from dry-cultivation would be significan...

9 二月 2023

Negotiators and activists preparing to attend the upcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) in Dubai are grimly aware that there is no realistic chance of limiting global warming to 1...

27 十一月 2023

Illegal oil palm plantations spanning an area one and a half times the size of London have been amnestied under an Indonesian government program that critics say incentivizes large corporations over t...

9 五月 2023

...smallholders and also some producers that will keep deforesting. It’s part of their rotation system…So zero deforestation, I think, is something hard to reach. But I think we can have deforestation at...

29 十一月 2024

Despite the year 2024 promising a fresh start for the world, the challenges experienced in the first three years of the decade continue to linger. The aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic, geopolitical...

9 一月 2024

Panellists at Google Sustainability Summit – Net Zero Through Digitalisation in Singapore

According to a Google Cloud Sustainability Survey, sustainability dropped from being the top organisational priority last year to being the third priority this year. The study, which polled almost 1,...

13 六月 2023

An Indian export ban on non-basmati rice has spurred calls to pursue greater self-sufficiency among rice-consuming countries and expand rice production to new areas such as Africa for increased food r...

14 十一月 2023

...smallholders. The role of climate change Climate scientists have said that the rainfall that caused last year’s floods may have been around 50 per cent more intense thanks to climate change. However, ...

16 一月 2023