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View all search resultsThe campaign in developed countries for imposing exclusive and discriminative standards of sustainability for palm oil, has in some way substantiated the suspicions of trade protectionism in favor of the vegetable oil producers in the temperate zone.
One way to resolve the import restrictions on Indonesian palm oil would be to improve ISPO certification so that it can be accepted as global certification of sustainable palm oil.
As most of the country and the rest of the world are under some sort of lockdown, we’re all facing disruptions and restrictions to our daily lives, not to mention the unprecedented changes that we will face as a society in the future.
Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) senior scientist Herry Purnomo warned that concerns about the sustainability of the commodity had now stretched beyond the EU, with similar concerns being expressed in North America and Australia.
Having relied on oil palms to earn a living for decades, it never occurred to Sartono, 51, that he and hundreds of other small-scale farmers in his village in West Kotawaringin regency, Central Kalimantan, had been doing things the wrong way.
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