#regenerative agriculture News
Food & Agriculture
Can Jambi’s farmers offer the world a model of sustainable agriculture and reforestation?
While it might be a temporary solution, the use of palm oil credits, facilitated by leading certifier RSPO, has been crucial in funding sustainable production and regenerative agricultural efforts, say smallholders and industry observers.
Food & Agriculture
Grow Asia director Erin Sweeney leaves Singapore, Megan Sullivan hired as programmes head
Sweeney is moving to New York with her partner over lack of ‘LGBTQ+ legal safety net’ in Singapore. Grow Asia has appointed former USAID executive Megan Sullivan as head of programmes.
Carbon & Climate
Clear climate targets can help clean up palm oil’s image: Malaysian plantation giant KLK sustainability chief
Exclusive
The group will soon announce commitments to decarbonise across the entire value chain, and improve its traceability and human rights policies, says Ku Kok Peng, who took up the CSO role in March last year.
The Jakarta-based fashion start-up works directly with village craftswomen and grows 100 per cent of its own cotton – "hard choices" it's had to make because the majority of garment makers are still unfairly paid and material traceability is almost impossible.
Food & Agriculture
Can organic farming be scaled to feed Asia?
Food & Agriculture
Bali's snakefruit farmers champion agroforestry as tourism reopens
#regenerative agriculture Opinion
Food & Agriculture
Decarbonising our food
Averting catastrophic climate scenarios requires that we phase out fossil fuels and transform food systems at the same time. A growing body of scientific research shows that the two challenges are not just equally urgent, but also mutually dependent.
Policy & Finance
A new playbook for preserving nature
Market-based solutions must be harnessed to prevent the exploitation of ecosystems. But such an approach will succeed only if markets' governance principles and operating methods are designed to promote equity and sustainable prosperity.
Food & Agriculture
Lobby groups want to kill nature policies – here’s what we can do
With laws to regenerate biodiversity facing resistance, we must explain how nature can work for people
Food & Agriculture
The corporate capture of the UN Food Summit
Transnational agribusiness firms are contributing to a growing global hunger crisis, causing widespread environmental damage, and threatening people’s health. By also capturing the United Nations Food Systems Summit, they have restricted the meeting's agenda to solutions that will further inflate corporate profits.
Policy & Finance
Closing the nature-finance gap
#regenerative agriculture Press Releases
International Association for Agriculture Sustainability
Experts from 26 nations gathering to discuss the sustainable agriculture of post-Covid-19 era
