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Over 50% of world's palm oil bound by zero deforestation commitments

2014-03-03 20:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Mongabay: Over half the world's palm oil traded internationally is now bound by zero deforestation commitments after Singapore-based Golden-Agri Resources (GAR) extended its forest conservation policy across all palm oil it produces, sources and trades. In a filing posted Friday Singapore Stock Exchange, GAR announced its breakthrough forest conservation policy - which when established in 2011 was the first by a palm oil major - now applies to all the palm oil it trades. "Golden Agri-Resources (GAR)...

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Drought: Feds cut water to Central Valley farmers to zero

2014-02-22 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Associated Press: Central Valley farmers took a crippling blow Friday when U.S. officials made the unprecedented announcement that they would get no irrigation water from the federal government this year because of the drought. But growers in a region with the country's most productive soil said the loss of one of their chief water supplies won't be their problem alone: Consumers will be hit hard in the form of higher prices at the produce market. California's unusually dry weather is forcing producers of fruits,...

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Federal water allocation drought-stricken California farms cut to zero

2014-02-21 20:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: The worsening drought in California will force a first-ever complete cutoff of federally supplied irrigation water to most farm districts throughout the state's Central Valley heartland this year, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation said on Friday. The projected 2014 zero allocation to all but a handful of agricultural districts supplied by the federally run Central Valley Project comes three weeks after forecasts of similarly drastic cuts were announced by managers of a separate water-delivery system...

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