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Legal defeats pile up for palm oil companies stripped of permits in Papua

Hans Nicholas Jong 31 May 2022

‘Water grab’: Big farm deals leave small farmers out to dry, study shows

Caroline Chebet 30 May 2022

Slick operator: Indonesian cooking oil probe may spread to biodiesel industry

Hans Nicholas Jong 19 May 2022
Michel Pimbert, founder and director of the Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience at Coventry University. Image courtesy of Coventry University.

Food for all: Q&A with Michel Pimbert of the Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience

Anna Lappé 11 May 2022

With ban on palm oil exports, Indonesia reaps condemnation and praise

Hans Nicholas Jong 25 Apr 2022
According to the Forest Code, rural properties located in the Cerrado biome of Mato Grosso state must maintain 35% of their native vegetation.

Brazil bill seeks to redraw Amazon borders in favor of agribusiness

Jenny Gonzales 25 Apr 2022
Oil palm kernels

Indonesian trade official, palm oil execs charged in cooking oil crisis

Hans Nicholas Jong 19 Apr 2022

Palm oil firm that cleared Papuan forest after losing its permit is still at it

Hans Nicholas Jong 5 Apr 2022
Coca plantation on a hillside near Caranavi, western Bolivia.

All coked up: The global environmental impacts of cocaine

Sean Mowbray 4 Apr 2022

For Indonesians, palm oil is everywhere but on supermarket shelves

Hans Nicholas Jong 4 Apr 2022

In destroying the Amazon, big agribusiness is torching its own viability

Sarah Brown 7 Mar 2022

Banning high-deforestation palm oil has limited impact on saving forests: Study

Loren Bell 3 Mar 2022

Brazil agrochemical bill nears passage in Bolsonaro’s ‘agenda of death’

Sarah Brown 18 Feb 2022

Can the little-known tamanu tree replace palm oil in Indonesia’s biofuel bid?

Nuswantoro 9 Feb 2022

Preventing the next pandemic is vastly cheaper than reacting to it: Study

Sharon Guynup 4 Feb 2022

As its end looms, Cerrado tracker records 6-year deforestation high

Fernanda Wenzel 12 Jan 2022

Across Latin America, palm oil violations abound — with little accountability

Tras las huellas de la palma alliance 5 Jan 2022

Urban ecology that saved Argentina’s Rosario held up as a model for others

Christa Avampato 31 Dec 2021
Port of Long Beach, California in February 2020. Photo: NASA Landsat

Visions of a post-supply chain society (commentary)

Nikolas Kozloff 27 Dec 2021

New flavor of vanilla farming aims to stop deforestation in Madagascar

Rivonala Razafison 21 Dec 2021

As climate-driven drought slams farms in U.S. West, water solutions loom

Saul Elbein 17 Dec 2021

Brazil’s Suzano boasts its pulpwood plantations are green; critics disagree

Sue Branford 15 Dec 2021

Across Latin America, Mennonites seek out isolation at the expense of forests

Victoria Schneider 15 Dec 2021

Climate change agricultural impacts to heighten inequality: Study

Claire Asher 13 Dec 2021

The complete guide to restoring your soil: Q&A with soil expert Dale Strickler

Liz Kimbrough 29 Nov 2021

In Brazil, an agribusiness haven’s green pivot leaves many skeptical

Fernanda Wenzel 25 Nov 2021

Banking on deforestation: Top lenders make $1.7b from agribusiness deals

Malavika Vyawahare 28 Oct 2021

Inga tree points to way out of slash-and-burn for Central American farmers

Maxwell Radwin 27 Oct 2021

Plantation giant Socfin accused of dodging taxes in Africa

Ashoka Mukpo 21 Oct 2021

Brazil farming co-op carves a sustainable path through agribusiness stronghold

Shanna Hanbury 11 Oct 2021
Soy-forest boundary. Photo credit: Mighty Earth

Timmermans vs. Bolsonaro: Will the EU get deforestation off our dinner plates? (commentary)

Nico Muzi 7 Oct 2021

New Zealand developer denies key role in giant palm oil project in Indonesia

Bonnie Sumner, Melanie Reid 27 Sep 2021

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