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 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…
China Duck-rice, honey bees and mandarins May 18, 2015 0 Written by Kathleen Buckingham. When asked to name a restoration project in China, the likelihood is that the Loess Plateau will come to mind. The hilly, semi-arid…
China-Africa Chinese agriculture in the wake of the global food crisis May 13, 2015 0 Written by Francesca Bray. In 2007-8 a food crisis rocked the world. A concatenation of climatic, economic and financial factors sent global food prices rocketing.…
Economy The Tyranny Of Numbers March 13, 2012 1 By Maria Jesus Herrerias. China’s Premier Wen Jiabao cut China’s growth target to 7.5 percent for 2012 in an attempt to achieve the promise of…
