The Palm Scribe

The Sawit Terampil Program Boosts Oil Palm Smallholders’ Agri Practices

The Sawit Terampil (Skilled Palm oil) program, a collaboration between a number of private companies, has…

Tripartite Collaboration Gets 239 Oil Palm Smallholders RSPO Certified

A program involving three private companies — Consumer good company KAO Corporation Indonesia, vegetable oil processor…

Asian Agri Affirms its Long-Term Sustainable Business Strategy

Asian Agri, one of the leading Indonesian palm oil companies and that is part of the…

Oil Palm Smallholders Bank on RSPO to Improve Their Conditions

In the face of unfavorable government regulations and unfair treatment by some plantation companies, Indonesian smallholders…

Palm Oil Company Helps South Sumatra Smallholders Obtain Bank Replanting Credits 

A palm oil company operating in South Sumatra has helped the Al Fa’iz Mandiri cooperative in…

CPOPC Calls on Oil Palm Smallholders to Join Fight Against Black Campaign

The Council of Palm Oil Producing Countries (CPOPC) is calling on oil palm smallholders in Central…

The New Proposed RSPO Standard for Smallholders in a Nutshell

BANGKOK – A new sustainability certification standard of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), to…

RSPO Sees 52% Increase in Certified Independent Smallholders

The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) said the organization continued to promote greater inclusion of…

RSPO Seeks to Draw More Smallholders into the Sustainability Fold

Photo: AFP The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), the world’s most widely recognized global certification…

Smallholders ISPO certification would still require land legality

Despite many having pointed out that the problem of land legality was a major stumbling block…