Review of smallholder palm oil sustainability reveals limited positive impacts and identifies key implementation and knowledge gaps

Ogahara, Zoë; Jespersen, Kristjan; Theilade, Ida; Nielsen, Martin Reinhard

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2022.106258

Cited by 32 publications

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“…In addition, RSPO, along with other certification approaches, are criticized for their market approach that is: (1) based on the logic of rewards from increasing market access and sales instead of sustainable production and; (2) links more sustainable products with customers' consuming ability [53]. Limitations in presenting solutions for smallholders are also mentioned as a fundamental weakness of the certification system (30). Critiques also highlight the ineffectiveness of the RSPO in overcoming land grabbing, as some RSPO-certified plantations are still involved in land conflicts with local communities [31].…”

Section: Literature Review 21 Development Of Palm Oil Plantationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Contribution of independent smallholder RSPO certification to village-level SDGs achievements

Pramudya,

Satwiko,

Astipranatari

et al. 2024

IOP Conf. Ser.: Earth Environ. Sci.

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As the world’s largest palm oil producer, Indonesia has promoted Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a framework to assess the impacts of palm oil development. However, various literatures have only covered the conceptual discussion and potential contributions of palm oil development to SDGs, leaving the use of SDGs as an assessment tool underexplored. This research discusses how RSPO’s independent smallholder certification can contribute to SDGs’ achievements at the village level. By interviewing 88 respondents from 34 RSPO-certified smallholder organizations (as members of Indonesia Sustainable Palm Oil Smallholder Forum / Fortasbi), RSPO certification shows significant impacts on the SDGs except SDG 14 (life below water) and SDG 17 (partnerships for the goal). This finding indicates that RSPO can lead to SDGs fulfillment in different ways, either directly as the impacts at the group level simultaneously contribute to village-level SDGs achievements (for SDGs 4, 9, and 10) or indirectly as there are impacts at the group level that do not necessarily affect village-level SDGs achievements (for SDGs 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 11, 12, 13, 15 and 16) and do not cause any impact (SDG 7). This result also reflects the collaboration challenges among stakeholders, especially at the village level.

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Section: Literature Review 21 Development Of Palm Oil Plantationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Contribution of independent smallholder RSPO certification to village-level SDGs achievements

Pramudya,

Satwiko,

Astipranatari

et al. 2024

IOP Conf. Ser.: Earth Environ. Sci.

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“…For example, firstly, smallholder which refers to people's plantations located illegally in forest areas creates challenges for small farmers to gain access to funding, harvests, and obtain sustainable certification, certification standards experience difficulties in resolving challenges. faced by small farmers, low income, low crop yields, and land ownership insecurity [24], then how Good Agricultural Practice (GAP) studies can affect productivity and welfare [25], access to certification for farmers, they are very dependent on external facilitators [26].…”

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confidence: 99%

Certification of sustainable palm oil plantations in the co-optation of global vegetable competition: Dialogue and dialectics

Habibie,

Darwin,

Suharko

2024

E3S Web Conf.

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Palm oil plantation certification is the right step for sustainable plantations globally, for this reason it is necessary to describe the implementation of sustainable palm oil plantation certification in various political, economic, social and environmental study keywords and look at the forms of cooperation and interaction that exist between palm oil plantation certification in various literacies that can be describe empirically from time to time. The bibliometric analysis technique is limited to 221 research articles published during 2002 – 2023 with the keywords Certification, Palm Oil in the economic, social, political, and environmental areas indexed by Scopus. This research focuses on abstraction analysis and content analysis of the study. The research flow was evaluated using VOSviewer 1.6.19 software. The results show a study trend that leads to certification of palm oil plantations initiated by the government and private sector as well as international institutions and the existence of certification practices for various elements of palm oil utilization and management (Producers and Consumers).

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“…Of the 100 articles indexed by Scopus, they can be grouped into 3 clusters which can be identified by color node each keyword. Cluster 1 is symbolized in red and includes terms related to studies with keywords Farmer [1][2][3][4][5][6], Standard [7][8][9][10], Impact [11][12][13] , Access [14], ISPO [15][16][17][18][19] it can be interpreted that the studies on the cluster referred to one and the other study keywords often intersect and tend to have links, for example research with studies on financial and benefits certification on one the articles in the study cover a lot of discussion related to the keywords impact, farmer and standards Cluster 2, which is symbolized in yellow, consists of studies that tend to lead to one keyword, namely RSPO certification [20][21][22][23][24][25][26], Cluster 3, which is symbolized in blue, consists of Oil Palm studies [27,28], Deforestation, Plantation, Biodiversity and Cluster 4 which is symbolized in green consists of MSPO certification studies, Industry, Independent Smallholder, Implementation. From the visualization of the network visualization, there is an interesting thing, namely that there is a high link to the study with the keywords of sustainable oil palm plantation certification namely ISPO, RSPO, and MSPO during the period from 2006 to 2023…”

Section: Network Visualizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Dynamics of The Role Oil Palm Smallholders in Implementing ISPO Certification: Looking Back to Moving Forward

Habibie,

Darwin,

Suharko

2023

IOP Conf. Ser.: Earth Environ. Sci.

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The author tries to holistically present the intellectual structure of scientific work with the keywords independent smallholders, certification, oil palm plantations, analyzes the concept keywords and study results to see the direction of the study as well as the empirical results of the study to see the dynamics of independent smallholders in fulfilling ISPO certification. The research flow uses bibliometric analysis techniques. Design/methodology/approach – By conducting a bibliometric analysis of 100 research articles published during 2006 - 2023 with the keywords disbursement of Independent Smallholders Certification of Oil Palm Plantation, taken from Scopus indexed articles, this study provides comprehensive insights from abstraction and keyword analysis. Emerging research streams were further evaluated using VOSviewer software. Findings - This study illustrates the year-over-year trend of overall increase in publications, key words used as research drivers as well as the reality of study content. Furthermore, this study evaluates trends in three cluster areas namely impact, Implementation, Sustainability Certification and the dynamics of the role of independent smallholders.

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Review of smallholder palm oil sustainability reveals limited positive impacts and identifies key implementation and knowledge gaps

Cited by 32 publications

References 106 publications

Contribution of independent smallholder RSPO certification to village-level SDGs achievements

Contribution of independent smallholder RSPO certification to village-level SDGs achievements

Certification of sustainable palm oil plantations in the co-optation of global vegetable competition: Dialogue and dialectics

The Dynamics of The Role Oil Palm Smallholders in Implementing ISPO Certification: Looking Back to Moving Forward

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