About the group
Number of smallholders: 55 (41 Men, 14 Women)
Total Land Area: 389 Ha
Status: Not Certified
Group location: Kampung Sinar Jaya, Kota Kinabatangan 90200 Sandakan Sabah
Country: Malaysia
On-going Facilitator: Forever Sabah
TOWARDS SUSTAINABILITY JOURNEY
In October 2015, the Sabah State Cabinet passed a policy that all palm oil production in Sabah need to achieve Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) certification by 2025. Forever Sabah embarked on a process to engage and organise independent smallholders in twenty villages in the pilot districts of Telupid, Tongod, Beluran, and Kinabatangan (TTBK) to assess their readiness for the certification process. Besides promoting productivity while reducing negative environmental and social impacts in the state of Sabah, the key needs identified are Good Management Practices (GMP), training and support, as well as access to the local and international markets.
Mindful of this policy, the “Koperasi Perintis Perusahaan Sawit Lamag Berhad” In Kinabatangan District (Sabah, Malaysia) is a cooperative created to advance certification as a strategy for sustainable livelihoods following an exchange visit to Seruyan regency (Central Kalimantan) to explore jurisdictional certification approaches and funded by UNEP and RSPO in 2018. Members of our community were very impressed by the effectiveness of cooperatives for oil palm smallholders in Seruyan.
Our members see certification as a stepping stone to strengthened livelihoods and greater sustainability for their principal cash crop, which now dominates their ancestral lands. Participants are from 11 villages in Kinabatangan district, in one of the main oil palm regions of Sabah/Malaysia, an area also recognised as having global biodiversity importance.
"Once we successfully RSPO certified, we have learned the good agricultural practices and it leads to improving our income."
- Amirdah, Group Manager
Target Project Impact
Total area covered by the project
389 Ha
Number of smallholders benefitting from this project
55 Smallholders
Number/percentage of women supported by this project
25.45% women in this project
How you can support
The group members are exerting efforts to earn a living through palm oil while improving smallholders’ livelihoods through income diversification. This effort should be appreciated by the downstream players such as Consumers Good Manufacturers or retailers. Please give us support in the sustainable supply chain by purchasing RSPO Smallholder Credits.
GROUP CONTACT
Representative Contact
Mohd Dzulfikar Bin Rosli | Secretary of KPPSLB | [email protected] |
FACILITATOR GROUP CONTACT
Representative Contact
Elisna Latik | Assistant Technical Coordinator +60 88 710708 | [email protected] | https://www.foreversabah.org/
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Mohd Dzulfikar Rosli
Mohd Dzulfikar Rosli
