https://ap.fftc.org.tw/article/3968
ABSTRACT
The palm oil industry is a major pillar of Indonesia’s economy, providing large-scale employment, generating substantial foreign exchange earnings, creating strong multiplier effects, and supporting regional economic growth and infrastructure...
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FFTC-AP Platform
2026.06.05
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Philippine News Agency
2026.06.05
14
The Department of Agriculture (DA) on Friday highlighted the expanded food security ties between the Philippines and Japan, which now include the fisheries sector.
The partnership is a result of an enhanced Memorandum of Cooperation (MOC) signed on the sidelines of President Ferdinand R. Marcos...
FFTC-AP Platform
2026.06.01
2
Link to the original full article: https://ap.fftc.org.tw/article/3965
ABSTRACT
Taiwan faces compounding agricultural challenges: a subtropical climate prone to typhoons and drought, an aging farm workforce, shrinking arable land, and a food import dependency exceeding 60% of caloric supply....
UNEP
2026.05.22
34
The state of Andhra Pradesh in India may be famous for its stunning emerald-green slopes covered in lush vegetation. Over the past few decades, however, the region has lost 30 to 40 per cent of its original forest cover, according to Dinesh Kumar, a local government official.
“...
The Japan Times
2026.05.22
13
The stoppage of Japan’s oil imports through the Strait of Hormuz has raised questions about what happens to available supplies of petroleum-derived naphtha across a broad range of industries.
For the agricultural industry and food-packaging businesses, worries are particularly acute about what...
FFTC-AP Platform
2026.05.18
6
Link to the original full article: https://ap.fftc.org.tw/article/3959
摘要
印尼利用糧食作物運用於農業生質能，正日益被推廣成為一種再生能源，而糧食作物常被定義為數量龐大、且可供轉化的作物「廢棄物」。本文將焦點清楚地置於糧食作物的作物殘留物–如水稻、玉米及其他主食作物–並刻意排除來自經濟作物的生質能，因其在土地利用、治理與供應鏈結構截然不同的性質之故。本文借鏡於國際文獻與印尼政策的框架，將糧食作物的農業生質能重新定位為嵌入於「土地–氣候–糧食」的鏈結之中、數量有限、且具備多功能的資產。本文的研究指出，...
FFTC-AP Platform
2026.05.12
3
Link to the original full article: https://ap.fftc.org.tw/article/3958
ABSTRACT
Rapid population aging, urbanization, and changes in family structure across Asia have reshaped social problems. Although earlier policies focused on alleviating material poverty, many Asian societies...
FAO
2026.05.07
14
The Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), QU Dongyu, emphasized today that the global fertilizer scarcity caused by disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz will lead to lower yields and tightening food supplies in the latter half of 2026 and into 2027....