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Cultivating partnerships across the palm oil value chain

This series looks at how the palm oil industry can take decisive action to tackle future challenges and ensure sustainability and protection of the interests of smallholders. It is curated as RSPO approaches its 20th anniversary in April 2024. 

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A palm oil harvesters cutting down fruit bunch

News / Food & Agriculture

RSPO on new standards: Human rights due diligence is here to stay

The rules will ensure safeguards are in place to strengthen labour conditions and close loopholes to curtail land grabbing incidents, says Leena Ghosh, head of human rights and social standards at the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil.
Podcast on RSPO's new principles and criteria for certifying palm oil as environmentally and socially sustainable.

Podcasts / Food & Agriculture

‘We revised the standard because we should’: What RSPO’s new rules for sustainable palm oil mean for people and planet

EB Studio The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil has released new criteria for certifying responsibly grown palm oil. What's changed and how does RSPO respond to criticism that the new standard lowers the bar for deforestation?
Palm oil plantation Kalimantan Indonesia

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

A call to financial institutions: Work with palm oil stakeholders to scale climate action

EB Studio Mutual benefits are assured when the financial sector collaborates with palm oil stakeholders. FIs can help smallholders secure credit, while getting access to data and insights required to make sound and profitable investment decisions.
Smallholder farmer hoists fresh fruits bunches

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

Bridging the gap for smallholders amidst tightening regulations

EB Studio The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil's Guntur Cahyo Prabowo argues why certified smallholders should be able to sell their produce under the European Union's new deforestation regulation, including via a RSPO smallholder credits system.

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Smoke from burning land in Indonesia

Carbon & Climate

Seeing through the haze – is palm oil still to blame?

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