Setting the Standard for Sustainable Palm Oil
Our global population is now over seven billion people and that number continues to grow every day. As the world’s population increases, so does our human dependence on natural resources. This growth requires immediate solutions around hunger, housing and job creation, and we tend to overlook the long-term impacts of the choices we make on […]
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OIL PALM GROWER MEMBERS SPEAK OUT ON IMPROVED SUSTAINABILITY CERTIFICATION
Download as PDF Click link for translations Bahasa Indonesia The recently adopted revised RSPO standard for sustainable palm oil generates diverse sentiments from growers around the world International, May 21, 2013 – The revised Principles & Criteria (2013) of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) has received widespread support following its ratification by the […]
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Oil palm cultivation can bring economic benefits in Kigoma, Tanzania In the Kigoma region of Tanzania, more than 30,000 smallholder farmers rely on palm oil cultivation for their family income and livelihood. Oil palm trees are native to Kigoma, and for many small farmers in producing regions, cultivating oil palm trees means breaking the poverty […]
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Submission deadline: Peat Inventory The RSPO Secretariat would like to remind RSPO members that the deadline for the submission of completed Peat Inventory (including peat maps and shapefiles of peat boundaries) is by close of business Friday 15 November, 2019. As we’re expecting a high volume of submissions close to the final deadline in November, […]
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JAKARTA, 11 May 2022: The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), in collaboration with the Jambi Provincial and District Government and local organisations, have launched a memorandum of understanding (MoU) programme aiming to scale up oil palm smallholder inclusion in the sustainability ecosystem through ISPO certification. Indonesia’s Jambi province has been appointed as the base […]
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Public Consultation: Draft revised RSPO Theory of Change
The draft of the revised RSPO Theory of Change (ToC) is now open for online Public Consultation. This is your opportunity to provide feedback, comments and suggestions on the draft revised ToC and the associated Narrative Document (draft). The current RSPO ToC was first published in 2017, and in 2022 RSPO conducted an internal review […]
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RSPO Shared Responsibility Task Force Recommendations Public Consultation Announcement
Non-grower members of RSPO – this is your opportunity to provide input into the requirements being developed for your membership categories The STRF was established in early 2019 with representation across all member categories to define shared responsibility and recommend strategies for collecting, reporting, monitoring and evaluating including mechanism for incentives and sanctions. The SRTF […]
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Public Consultation: Jurisdictional Approach for RSPO Certification
RSPO has embarked on a journey to develop an approach that will allow the RSPO Principles and Criteria (P&C) to be applied at the jurisdictional level for the State of Sabah, Malaysia; District of Seruyan, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia and Ecuador. This approach is referred to as the Jurisdictional Approach to Certification (JA for short). The […]
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RSPO eTrace relaunches as PalmTrace
The name change has no impact on the functionalities already available in RSPO eTrace, and accounts created in RSPO eTrace will stay valid. The only major change is that RSPO Credits trade will be added in PalmTrace. As announced by the RSPO in July 2016, the RSPO’s endorsement of GreenPalm ends this month (December 2016). […]
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