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2019
Economic
United Kingdom
Peeling back the label – exploring sustainable palm oil ecolabelling and consumption in the United Kingdom

Published in Environmental Research Letters, this paper aimed at exploring the extent to which members of the general public are aware of palm oil, their perceptions about its environmental impact, and recognition and inclusion of RSPO ecolabelled products in household shopping compared to other widely known ecolabels.

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Independent
2019
Environmental
Colombia
Improve long-term biodiversity management and monitoring on certified oil palm plantations in Colombia by centralizing efforts at the sector level

Published in Frontiers in Forests and Global Change in August 2019, this study sought to explore the challenges to effective biodiversity monitoring on oil palm plantations.

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Independent
2019
Social
Sustainable palm oil or certified dispossession? NGOs within scalar struggles over the RSPO private governance standard

This paper examined the role of NGOs in the complex field of private standard-setting and implementation by the RSPO.

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Independent
2019
Economic, Environmental, Social
Ghana
Organic and fair palm oil production – Assessment project

The overall objective of this study project was to clarify the extent to which organically certified palm oil helps ensure positive ‘sustainability impacts’ compared to palm oil that is produced without any certification or with RSPO certification.

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Independent
2019
Economic, Environmental, Social
Colombia
Field evidence for positive certification outcomes on oil palm smallholder management practices in Colombia

This study is a farm-level assessment of certification programs in the oil palm sector by focusing on RSPO and Organic (IFOAM) certified smallholders in Magdalena, Colombia.

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Independent
2019
Economic
Companies committed to sustainable palm oil production have substantively stronger equity returns

This analysis by Climate Advisers was done to compare the financial performance of RSPO companies to non-RSPO companies.

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Independent
2019
Environmental
Indonesia, Malaysia
Comparative life cycle assessment of RSPO-certified and non-certified palm oil

This report, prepared by 2.0 LCA consultants, presents the executive summary of a detailed life cycle assessment (LCA) study of palm oil production comparing the environmental impact of RSPO certified sustainable palm oil with non-certified palm oil.

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Independent
2018
Environmental, Economic, Social
Indonesia
Evaluating the effectiveness of palm oil certification in delivering multiple sustainability objectives.

This paper evaluates the effectiveness of RSPO plantations compared to non-certified plantations by assessing the relative performance of several key sustainability metrics (environmental, economic and social aspects) compared to business as usual practices.

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Independent
2018
Economic, Social
Indonesia
RSPO certification impacts on oil palm smallholders’ welfare in Jambi Province

This paper aimed at analysing the benefits of RSPO certification on improving oil-palm smallholders’ welfare in Jambi Province. Read more (link)

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Independent
2018
Economic
India, China
Emerging markets and private governance: the political economy of sustainable palm oil in China and India

This research was done to examine the efforts of the RSPO to gain market uptake in China and India.

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