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The sustainability of palm oil farming by certified independent smallholders in Jambi
Frontiers in SustainabilityIntroductionPalm oil plantation certification is important in promoting sustainable practices, but its implementation among independent smallholders often faces obstacles. Suboptimal readiness, limited insight, knowledge, human resources, and audit costs
Fuad Muchlis +5 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The last five years of research on sustainability labelling, reported in 175 journal articles, documents its effectiveness in increasing consumer choices of more sustainable food products. Some sustainability labels come out as stronger than others and their impact varies across products, countries, and individual consumers, depending on label
John Thøgersen +2 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Biodiversity underpins ecosystem functioning and the provision of ecosystem services, yet it continues to decline due to intensive agriculture, pollution, habitat loss and climate change. Although ecolabels are increasingly used to communicate sustainability attributes and influence consumer choices, their role in addressing biodiversity ...
Marzieh Aminravan +4 more
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Bridging the Living Income Gap for Cocoa and Palm Oil Farmers in Rural Post-Disaster Aceh [PDF]
E3S Web of ConferencesThis study examines how cocoa and oil palm farmers in Aceh Timur and Aceh Tamiang, two disaster-prone districts in Indonesia’s westernmost province respond to economic and environmental vulnerabilities through adaptive livelihood strategies.
Asni Kurnia, Chan Syafruddin
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Governing sustainability in the Thai palm oil-supply chain: the role of private actors
Sustainability: Science, Practice, & Policy, 2022 Private actors are essential partners in the sustainability governance of commodity-supply chains such as palm oil. However, their actual contribution to promoting sustainability is also contested.
Somjai Nupueng +2 more
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Palm Oil Plantation in Indonesia: A Question of Sustainability
Salus Cultura, 2022 The soaring price of cooking oil and the shortage of supply in Indonesia since December 2021 have brought the Indonesian palm oil industry back into the spotlight. Indonesia is one of the largest palm oil producers in the world.
Wahyu Indriyadi
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The pantropical biodiversity footprint of oil palm
Conservation Science and Practice, EarlyView.Although oil palm expansion is a main driver of tropical deforestation, this is the first study that integrates species‐specific habitats to assess oil palm's biodiversity footprint globally. We find that 4.5% of forest‐dependent species lost more than 1% of their potential habitats to oil palm; São Tomé and Sri Lanka have the highest per‐hectare ...
Yingtong Zhu +3 more
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Remaking State Power Through a Paraquat Ban in Malaysia
Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines the role of the state in its ability to enact environmental regulations. Specifically, this study investigates how Malaysian state actors changed, shifted and betrayed various, oftentimes competing interests to ban paraquat, an acutely toxic herbicide.
Caitlyn Sears
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Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Governance of sustainable development increasingly relies on voluntary standards and commitments, the credibility and effectiveness of which hinge on accountability—ensuring actors align with shared goals and follow through on them. However, voluntary initiatives operate outside traditional control structures and blend elements of state ...
Elina Vikstedt +3 more
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