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Agribusiness devastates our environment
Meanwhile, indigenous peoples are custodians of 80 percent of the world’s remaining biodiversity, but are facing severe food insecurity, extreme poverty and other human rights deprivations. Trade Agribusiness fundamentally fails to adequately fulfil the…
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2021 climate disasters raise alarm over food security
Human-driven climate change is fueling weather extremes — from record drought to massive floods — that are hammering key agricultural regions around the world. From the grain heartland of Argentina to the tomato…
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The Centre’s Oil Palm push is a slippery slope for Meghalaya
By Sarah H. Aijaz The sweet oil of the palm is alluring to the weak: It brings with it immense wealth, but the price is ravished forests and soils that have been bled…
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Oilseed production boost can cut imports : The Tribune India
Devinder Sharma Food & Agriculture Specialist A few days before the Union Cabinet approved the Rs 11,040-crore National Mission on Edible Oils-Oil Palm (NMEO-OP) to incentivise domestic production of palm…
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Deforestation in Colombia’s Amazon: Outlining the Problem
Deforestation is the most visible face of environmental crime in Colombia’s Amazon. From around 2016, the region’s forests registered accelerating encroachment and destruction. According to the Institute of Hydrology, Meteorology and Environmental Studies…
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Calls mount for Indonesian ban on new palm oil plantations to be extended
Calls are mounting from within the government and civil society for Indonesia’s ban on new oil palm plantations, in force since 2018 and set to expire this September, to be extended. They argue…
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Plan to plant a billion trees yet to take root three years after target set
In September 2018, the federal government unveiled a plan to radically expand Australia’s timber plantations by one billion trees over a decade. Today, less than 1 per cent of that goal has been…
