Asia Rethinking the food system to address hunger, health and social equality: Notes from the northeast of India November 26, 2019 0 Image Credit: Dozens of tea pickers among tea bushes, Roger Burks/ Flickr ; Licence: CC BY NC ND 2.0 Written by Sujata Dutta Hazarika I…
Climate Change The effects of tourism on animal welfare in Asia November 4, 2019 0 Image Credit: Bear and elephant show, Malingering /Flickr; Licence: CC BY-NV-ND 2.0 Written by David Fennell. Scholars estimate that there are 120 billion animals that…
Business Patterns in politics on palm oil June 7, 2019 0 Written by Otto Hospes. Image Credit: Oil palm by CIFOR/Flickr, Licence CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. The recent controversy between Indonesia and the EU over the revised EU Renewable Energy Directive…
Business Reconciling conflicting visions of ‘sustainable palm oil’ June 6, 2019 0 Written by Rory Padfield. Image Credit: Truck filled with oil palm by CIFOR/Flickr, licence: CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. Diplomatic relations between the EU and the major…
Conservation Palm Oil Futures: Youth Perceptions in Indonesia June 5, 2019 1 Written by Ratih Indraswari, Stanislaus Risadi Apresian, Adam Tyson, Helena Varkkey and Shofwan Al Banna Choiruzzad. Image Credit to the authors. In 2006 Indonesia became…
Conservation The complex socioeconomic impacts of the oil palm expansion in Indonesia June 4, 2019 0 Written by Christoph Kubitza. Image Credit: Oil palm harvesting by CIFOR/Flickr, licence: CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. The global demand for palm oil over the last few…
Economic Growth Malaysian palm oil: National pride and prejudice through the years June 3, 2019 0 Written by Helena Varkkey. Image Credit: Palm oil plantation by Angela Sevin /Flickr, Licence CC BY-NC 2.0. Introduced to then-Malaya from West Africa via the Dutch East Indies…
Bangladesh Balancing Development and Sustainability in Bangladesh – the challenging road ahead October 17, 2018 0 Written by Tanzia Amreen Haq A report conducted by New York-based research firm Wealth-X showed Bangladesh having the fastest rate of growth in the number…
Malaysia Malaysia’s Pursuit of Sustainable Design September 14, 2018 0 Written by Novita Sakundarini and Raja Ariffin Raja Ghazila Manufacturing industries play a vital role in strengthening economic growth in many nations, including Malaysia. Manufacturing…
Bangladesh From MDGs to SDGs: where next for Bangladesh? September 4, 2018 0 By M Niaz Asadullah and Antonio Savoia Would you say that a country can reach any of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) if affected by…
