#agribusiness News
Growers of jasmine flowers in lowland areas of Indonesia’s Central Java province are vulnerable to coastal erosion and rising sea levels.
Food & Agriculture
Innovative tool designed to assist palm oil firms comply with deforestation regulations
A new online tool launched by web-based monitoring platform Palmoil.io aims to help companies check their compliance with deforestation regulations for palm oil.
NGOs in the Malaysian state of Sabah want oil palm companies and other land managers to plant Ficus species to increase habitat for threatened wildlife.
Carbon & Climate
Indonesia saw fivefold surge in fires in 2023 triggered by El Niño
Nearly 1 million hectares (2.47 million acres, an area 15 times the size of Jakarta) burned in Indonesia between January and October 2023, according to environment and forest ministry data; El Niño and burning for new plantations contributed to this.
Food & Agriculture
Palm oil watchdog adds new targets: climate emissions, small farms
#agribusiness Opinion
Food & Agriculture
A call to financial institutions: Work with palm oil stakeholders to scale climate action
EB Studio
Mutual benefits are assured when the financial sector collaborates with palm oil stakeholders. FIs can help smallholders secure credit, while getting access to data and insights required to make sound and profitable investment decisions.
Wealthy nations’ overconsumption is destroying nature, but is often not accounted for by ‘loss and damage’.
Carbon & Climate
We need to stop gambling with our planet - and our well-being - now
Respecting planetary boundaries can bring us back to a safe operating space where Earth’s life support systems are not at risk.
Food & Agriculture
The key to sustainable food systems
Achieving zero hunger, one of the Sustainable Development Goals, requires meeting another SDG: ensuring access to modern energy. In particular, the future of agriculture in the Global South depends on distributed renewable-energy solutions to address the challenges faced by smallholder farmers.
Food & Agriculture
The hunger profiteers
Food & Agriculture
The food system revolution is coming
#agribusiness Podcasts
Carbon & Climate
Seeing through the haze – is palm oil still to blame?
EB Studio
Transboundary haze pollution is back with a vengeance in Southeast Asia. The Eco-Business Podcast talks to RSPO CEO Joseph D'Cruz about what the palm oil sector can do to put out the peatland fires that have burned annually for four decades.
#agribusiness Press Releases
Pandawa Agri Indonesia
Pandawa Agri Indonesia encourages agricultural transformation in Malaysia
Greenpeace Southeast Asia
Renewed calls for Asean to prioritise and protect citizens’ rights to clean air from transboundary haze
International Association for Agricultural Sustainability
Agro-industrialisation and sustainability: Shaping the future of agriculture from the ground up
