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Day: December 15, 2022

“AGROECOLOGY FOR ALL: Initiatives in Malaysia” – FARMERS

HUD SULAIMAN Integrated Farming is the Answer to Food Safety and Sovereignty Hud Sulaiman, as Managing Director of the Malaysian Institute of Sustainable Agriculture (MISA), has been conducting a variety of environmental and agroecological activities for the past 10 years. The objective of the organisation is to promote sustainable agriculture through education, science and welfare. In the...
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GREEN ACTION WEEK 2022 – How CAP Contributed to a Sharing Community

CAP was one of the 58 organisations from 33 countries that took part in the Green Action Week (GAW) 2022, a global campaign to promote sustainable consumption. We had shared news on our green activities for GAW in our social media. In case you missed the stories, you can still read about how we contributed to a Sharing Community (see link below). Click on “CAP” on the world map in the link...
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THE COLLAPSE OF INSECTS

The world has lost 5% to 10% of all insect species in the last 150 years — or between 250,000 and 500,000 species, according to a Feb 2020 study in the journal Biological Conservation. Those losses are continuing, though estimates vary due to patchy data. (@ClimateBen) As human activities rapidly transform the planet, the global insect population is declining at an unprecedented rate of up to...
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“AGROECOLOGY FOR ALL: Initiatives in Malaysia” – FARMERS

CHEAH SIN CHOR Farming is All about Prospering and Sharing The verdant forest dotted with a variety of tropical trees at Kampung Mata Air, Pulai Chondong, Machang, Kelantan, stands tall and confident purely for the reason that its proud owner, Cheah Sin Chor, had promised its inhabitants that he would not in any manner intrude into their lives. “Agriculture is not mere planting, harvesting,...
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“AGROECOLOGY FOR ALL: Initiatives in Malaysia” – FARMERS

KUMARASAMY THANNIMALAI A Lecturer that Farms to Cater to the Needs of the Local Community Kumarasamy Thannimalai is a successful farmer despite his busy schedule as a lecturer at IPG. His unquenchable thirst for farming made him keep learning all the nuances of growing and caring for plants. In 1993, he started farming on 25,000 square feet of land adjacent to his house at Taman Kangkung, Lunas,...
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CABLE CAR PROJECT

Sahabat Alam Malaysia (SAM) is very alarmed to learn about the announcement by the Chief Minister of Penang that the cable car project to Penang Hill has been awarded to Hartasuma Sdn Bhd, at an estimated investment of RM 245 million and is based on a 30-year concession period and will be located in the Botanical Gardens area. SAM along with other NGOs including the Consumers Association of...
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