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Kari Herlevi – Finnish Circular Economy expert shares insights

March 8, 2020January 12, 2021 - by Joakim Persson - Leave a Comment

Finland is aiming at becoming a global circular economy (CE) leader by 2025. As a country it came up with its first CE roadmap in 2016, with the leadership of …

Agriculture, fishing, forestry / China / Finland / Food & Beverage / Thailand / Vietnam

Lack of hands for Finnish berry picking after Thai trafficking case

August 20, 2019August 1, 2023 - by Sigrid Friis Neergaard - Leave a Comment

While raspberries, cranberries and blueberries ripen in Finland, the firms can’t keep up, after Thailand decreased the number of berry picking visas. Where 3,500 Thai were granted a seasonal visa …

Agriculture, fishing, forestry / Cambodia / International relations / Norway / Sustainability

Norway funded Cambodia’s project on biodiversity

June 25, 2019January 12, 2021 - by Nilobon Bantoey - Leave a Comment

Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad) funded the project launched by Cambodia’s National Council for Sustainable Development (NCSD) with the technical assistance from United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). The Biodiversity …

Agriculture, fishing, forestry / Denmark / International relations / Myanmar

Denmark supported training on planting mangrove

May 21, 2019January 12, 2021 - by Nilobon Bantoey - Leave a Comment

The second-round field trip of Integrated Coastal Management Training, supported by Denmark together with the Forest Department in Myanmar, was launched on May 13, 2019 at the Forest Department located …

Agriculture, fishing, forestry / Denmark / General news / Myanmar

Denmark funds mangrove reforestation in Rakhine

February 5, 2019January 12, 2021 - by Nilobon Bantoey - Leave a Comment

The Danish Climate Envelope funds a Five-year plan of mangrove reforestation on the Rakhine State. The plan will take action in the degraded mangrove forests in Myebon, Rambre, Tanintharyi’s Myeik …

Agriculture, fishing, forestry / Finland / Myanmar

Finland signed second phase of farming program in Myanmar

December 14, 2018January 12, 2021 - by Lærke Weensgaard - Leave a Comment

On 12 December, Finland, Germany and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Myanmar Country Programme have signed agreements for a total of 6.1 million euro to extend …

Agriculture, fishing, forestry / Malaysia / Sweden

Ikea has completed replanting of three million trees in Malaysia

December 6, 2018January 12, 2021 - by Lærke Weensgaard - Leave a Comment

After 20 years, IKEA and Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences have replanted three million rainforest trees in Luasong, Malaysia, to restore 18,000 hectares of severely degraded rainforest. Ulf Johansson, Global …

Agriculture, fishing, forestry / Cambodia / Denmark

Danish researcher wins award for forest-saving app

October 11, 2018January 12, 2021 - by Lærke Weensgaard - 1 Comment

Danish researcher Ida Theilade has been granted the University of Copenhagen’s Innovation Award 2018 for a Smartphone app that helps preventing illegal logging in the Prey Lang Forest in Cambodia. …

Agriculture, fishing, forestry / Cambodia / Denmark

Smartphones help to save forest in Cambodia

October 10, 2018January 12, 2021 - by Lærke Weensgaard - 2 Comments.

University of Copenhagen, Danmission, the IT company Web Essentials and local peacebuilding organizations in Cambodia have developed an app for smartphones that helps protecting the forest. The app “Prey Lang …

Agriculture, fishing, forestry / Business in Asia / China / Finland / Food & Beverage / International relations

Finnish agriculture minister Jari Leppä visited China

May 20, 2018January 12, 2021 - by Joakim Persson - Leave a Comment

Minister of Agriculture and Forestry Jari Leppä visited Shanghai and Beijing on 15-18 May, promoting Finnish food and wood exports and Finnish-Chinese water cooperation. In Shanghai Minister Leppä visited the …

Agriculture, fishing, forestry / Denmark / Food & Beverage / History & Heritage / International relations / Retail & Wholesale / Thailand

Thailand’s Minister of Agriculture visits Denmark

June 15, 1998January 29, 2021 - by Gregers Møller - Leave a Comment

Thai Minister of Agriculture and Cooperatives, H.E. Pongpol Adireksarn, together with a delegation from the Ministry of Agriculture visited Denmark from the 3rd to the 6th of June 1998. “There …