COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Specialty tire maker Global Rubber Industries (Pvt.) Ltd. (GRI) recently held two events with natural rubber farming communities, both held under GRI's Green X Circle initiative, ...

Porsche has announced that it will be partnering with Michelin and investing $1.1 million to improve rubber farming sustainability in Sumatra, Indonesia. The project will run into 2024. Michelin began ...

As Ebola exploded in Liberia this year, a rubber farm embarked on a crash course on how to tame an epidemic that has killed thousands of people and derailed governments across West Africa. One morning ...

The Rubber Productivity Incentives for Latex Smallholders (IPGPKL) initiative has helped smallholders double their income.

NASHVILLE, Tenn.—The largest contiguous natural rubber farm on the planet now owns the world's first ISCC Plus certification for an operation of its kind. Firestone Liberia (Firestone Natural Rubber ...

Tribal villages in Odisha’s Gajapati district now thrive through rubber farming, boosting livelihoods and symbolizing rural ...

TOKYO—More than 50 natural rubber farming households in Thailand recently participated in a seminar organized by Yokohama Rubber Co. Ltd. The Dec. 22 gathering in the Surat Thani region, where ...

XIAOMANSAN VILLAGE, China -- Roosters break into a dissonant chorus at dawn as fog clings to the bamboo grove encircling a cluster of wooden houses. Villagers apply fresh logs to fires, boiling water ...

ABENGOUROU, Ivory Coast (Reuters) - Angry at graft and disorder in Ivory Coast's cocoa sector, farmer Anini Kouakou spoke out on national television earlier this year against corrupt officials he says ...

Varkey George shows a grapefruit tree on his farm in Kottayam. He plans to diversify his fruit farming. | Image courtesy of Varkey George via Mongabay. Thidanadu panchayat stands in the midst of ...