Guidelines on Sustainable Oil Palm Cultivation
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By Elizabeth John  A GROUP of industry players and non-governmental organisations have come up with guidelines that could help responsible palm oil firms certify that their products are made with respect for the environs, including wildlife, workers and local communities.
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By Rina De Silva  PETALING JAYA: A novel way to protect the environment is in the pipeline.  A group of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and residents' associations plans to buy up multi-million ringgit green lungs nationwide so that they would not be developed.
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The oil producers' group is set to meet, with some members pressing for a reduction oil output.
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By Jaspal Singh; Ahmad Fairuz Othman; Mazlinda Mahmood; Sulok Tawie  POKOK SENA: A former agricultural consultant is earning big bucks as a pineapple farmer.   Yaacob Awang Ahmad expects a 30 per cent profit margin this year from selling his pineapples throughout Kedah.
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Compatibili aiuti agroambientali per danni maltempo
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Life & style: On a London industrial estate, 25,000 litres of used cooking oil are turned into biodiesel every month - so why the flak from environmentalists?
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By Nisha Sabanayagam; Ranjeetha Pakiam; Minderjeet Kaur; Teresa Yong;  THE tipping point is very close.   Environmentalists warn that once past it, our countrys environmental deterioration will lead to irreversible consequences.  It may already have happened.
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By Page, Brian  Agrarian Dreams: The Paradox of Organic Farming in California. By Julie Guthman. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004.
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Worldchanging, a new tome on sustainability, makes going green easy and leaves behind the tree-hugger stereotypes. By Jenn Shreve.
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A leading supplier of tropical oils to Ukraine and one of the largest suppliers of palm oil products to CIS countries - Dutch company TRADEPOINT has taken on responsibility to be organiser of the session ...
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By Gerrodette, Tim  HOW TO SAVE OCEANIC LIFE Marine Conservation Biology: The Science of Maintaining the Sea's Biodiversity. Elliott A. Norse and Larry B. Crowder, eds. Island Press, Washington, DC, 2005. 470 pp., illus. $49.95 (ISBN 9781559636629 paper).
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For decades, a flood of aid and an army of conservationists couldn't save Indonesia's rain forests from illegal loggers, land-hungry peasants and the spread of giant plantations. Now the world is looking at a simpler approach: up-front cash.
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NUEVO JERUSALEM, Peru -- TomÃÂ¡s Maynas Carijano strolled through his tiny jungle farm, pinching leaves, shaking his head. The rain forest spread lushly in all directions -- covering what oil maps call Block 1AB.
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By Pandey, C; Shukla, S  A two-year study was conducted in 2002-2003 (season one) and 2003- 2004 (season two) at a seepage irrigated vegetable farm in south Florida to investigate the effects of soil organic amendment (composted yard waste) on movement of water in a sandy soil.
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Germany taxes, rather than subsidies, biodiesel. That's killing the industry.
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TERENGGANU : Malaysia has gazetted 60 hectares of land off the east coast state of Terengganu to help conserve the dwindling number of endangered sea turtles.
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By Wiebe, Keith  Agricultural production both depends on and influences a wide range of natural and other resources. These resources include land, water, and genetic material, as well as knowledge, production technologies, and management skills.