Indonesia risks bungling the positive social impact that a well-run palm oil industry could have, local NGOs say. Instead of empowering millions of rural smallholders, the Indonesian authorities are cutting them out of the profits by favouring big state-run palm oil production firms and using cheap labour sourced from the hordes of unemployed urban Javanese.
Entries Tagged as 'environment'
Is Indonesia bungling its palm oil industry?
March 7th, 2011 · 2 Comments · Journalism, Rest of Asia
Tags:agriculture·conflict·deforestation·development·environment·human rights·Indonesia·justice·Kalimantan·land·Palm oil·Sawit·Sawit Watch
What a difference a day makes…
October 11th, 2010 · 1 Comment · China, Photography
Blue skies a day after the worst air pollution I’ve ever seen.
Tags:Beijing·environment·pollution
Dreams of a natural life
October 10th, 2010 · 1 Comment · China, Photography
Photos of the worst air pollution I’ve ever seen in Beijing.
Tags:Beijing·environment·photo·pollution
Dai people of BanNa
April 14th, 2010 · No Comments · China, Rest of Asia
The story in today’s China Daily about a water-sprinkling festival in drought-struck Xishuangbanna reminds me that in Kunming aiport last month I saw a big group of people who I’m guessing were from the ethnic Dai group, who are the biggest group in Banna, which is at the bottom tip of Yunnan Province, on the [...]
Tags:Banna·China·drought·environment·minorities·Xishuangbanna·Yunnan
Photos in Point Carbon magazine spread
April 12th, 2010 · No Comments · China, Photography
Some of my photos have been printed in a Point Carbon magazine report on carbon credits. No cash, but it;s nice to see them in print and apparently they went down well at Point Carbon HQ so who knows, maybe a photo assignment might come through in the future… Point Carbon – China Crisis?
Tags:carbon·China·environment·photo
