Search for research topics and objective(s) keywords
The impact of RSPO membership on avoiding biodiversity losses in oil palm landscapes. A science-for-policy brief by the SEnSOR programme.
This study investigates the impact of RSPO membership on avoiding biodiversity losses, by looking at the role of High Conservation Value areas (HCVs).
Managing fire risk during drought: The influence of certification and El Ninõ on fire-driven forest conversion for oil palm in Southeast Asia.
This research has three main objectives to determine the following: (i) the fraction of forest and peat forest conversion for oil palm that involves fire, (ii) if certification alters fire use for forest conversion or the frequency of management or accidental fires in plantation areas, and (ii) if certified plantations have fewer satellite fire detections compared to non-certified plantations and surrounding lands, during El Niño years.
Sustainability standards and sustainable development – synergies and trade-offs of transnational governance.
This study, from the University of Bonn in Germany, analyses the major expected benefits that smallholder certification generates and the extent in which there are trade-offs between economic and environmental sustainability.
Assessment of the guidance and recommendations for soil erosion control set out within the RSPO P&C.
–
On the profitability of sustainability certification: An analysis among Indonesian palm oil smallholders.
This research was conducted to determine the extent and ways in which RSPO certification is profitable for Indonesian palm oil smallholders. It also included an analysis on profitability if smallholders had to pay certification costs by themselves, and the premium fee required in making certification profitable for smallholders.
Assessing the potential additionality of certification by the RTRS and RSPO.
Research examined the potential additionality of RTRS and RSPO in mitigating conversion of native vegetation in cropland.
Effectiveness of Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) for reducing fires on oil palm concessions in Indonesia from 2012 to 2015.
The study aimed at comparing the density of fire detections, fire ignitions, or ‘escaped’ fires between certified and non-certified concessions, and if the pattern changed with increasing likelihood of fires in concessions located on peatland and in dry years.
Costs and benefits of RSPO certification for independent smallholders: A science-for-policy paper for the RSPO.
Study done to assess the monetary costs and benefits of smallholder RSPO certification.
The impacts of RSPO on the livelihood of smallholders: Case studies in East Malaysia, Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil, Malaysia.
This study was done to examine the economic, environmental and social impacts of RSPO adoptions on independent smallholders’ livelihoods.
Sustainability certification and palm oil smallholders’ livelihood: A comparison between scheme smallholders and independent smallholders in Indonesia.
The research, done in Indonesia, was done to conceptually understand the relationship between certification and the livelihood of smallholders.
