scholarly journals Private sustainability standards as tools for empowering southern pro-regulatory coalitions? Collaboration, conflict and the pursuit of sustainable palm oil

2020 ◽  
Vol 167 ◽  
pp. 106439 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kate Macdonald
Keyword(s):  
Palm Oil ◽  
Sustainability Standards

scholarly journals Human Rights Anchored in Business: Practice and Challenges in the Palm Oil Sector in Malaysia

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Andika AB. Wahab
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Corporate Culture ◽  
Palm Oil ◽  
Business Practice ◽  
Oil Companies ◽  
Business And Human Rights ◽  
Oil Sector ◽  
Sustainability Standards ◽  
Direct Market ◽  
Market Pressure

The United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights aims to address gaps in human rights governance by setting a standard and corporate culture of respecting human rights. In Malaysia, despite growing requirements for sustainable production, the palm oil sector has been implicated in various corporate human rights violations. This article discusses how do three public listed companies in the palm oil sector in Malaysia perform their obligation to respect human rights? This article argues that while large palm oil companies have shown modest progress in realizing their human rights obligation – the lack of regulatory framework, resources, direct market pressure and membership to sustainability standards continue to serve as critical challenges in compensating the gaps in human rights governance.

Sustainability Standards for Palm Oil

2015 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 292-314 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clara Brandi ◽  
Tobia Cabani ◽  
Christoph Hosang ◽  
Sonja Schirmbeck ◽  
Lotte Westermann ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Palm Oil ◽  
Sustainability Standards

scholarly journals Oreos Versus Orangutans: The Need for Sustainability Transformations and Nonhierarchical Polycentric Governance in the Global Palm Oil Industry

Forests ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 252
Author(s):  
Gabriel B. Snashall ◽  
Helen M. Poulos
Keyword(s):  
Rural Communities ◽  
Palm Oil ◽  
Current Trend ◽  
Oil Industry ◽  
Policy Reforms ◽  
Ecosystem Integrity ◽  
Cleaning Product ◽  
Polycentric Governance ◽  
Sustainability Policy ◽  
Sustainability Standards

While the myriad benefits of palm oil as a food, makeup, and cleaning product additive drive its demand, globally, the palm oil industry remains largely unsustainable and unregulated. The negative externalities of palm oil production are diverse and devastating to tropical ecosystem integrity and human livelihoods in palm oil nations. Given the current trend in increasing sustainability and transparency in global supply chains, we suggest that sustainability policy reforms are feasible and have the potential to promote 21st century U.S. and international sustainability standards. Polycentric governance may improve the attainment of sustainable global palm oil standards with a set of rules that interact across linear and nonlinear hierarchies and structures, thereby improving collaboration efforts, and increasing connectivity and learning across scales and cultures. Transformations towards sustainability in international palm oil governance has the potential to make valuable contributions to global sustainable development and improve the prosperity of poor rural communities in the tropics by providing a framework for achieving palm oil trade transparency and aligning the sustainability goals across a range of actors.

scholarly journals Sustainable Production Policy Impact on Palm Oil Firms’ Performance: Empirical Analysis from Indonesia

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (20) ◽  
pp. 8750
Author(s):  
Noxolo Kunene ◽  
Yessica C.Y. Chung
Keyword(s):  
Palm Oil ◽  
Forest Degradation ◽  
Sustainable Production ◽  
Difference In Differences ◽  
Production Policy ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Oil Sector ◽  
The Government ◽  
Sustainability Standards ◽  
The Impact

Sustainable production is a key element of sustainable development. The concept was first introduced in the United Nations Rio Earth Summit in 1992 and has become an important item on the management of industries. In conjunction, the government of Indonesia introduced the Indonesian Sustainable Palm Oil (ISPO) policy in 2011 to adhere to international sustainability standards of Sustainable Palm Oil and of reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+). This study investigates the impact of ISPO policy on palm oil firms’ performance. Using a sample of 409 palm oil firms of the Indonesian palm oil sector for the years 2010 and 2015, we employed a regression discontinuity (RD) with a difference-in-differences approach to explore the effect of the policy on firms’ performance. The RD results show that the introduction of the policy significantly reduced large firms’ profit by IDR 75m (equivalent to USD 5250); the negative effect of the policy increased with firm size. Furthermore, there was a significant reduction in performance for firms that promptly purchased land before the policy’s ban on land expansion. These findings suggest that a punitive sustainable production policy does not sustain the palm oil sector. Nevertheless, large companies that complied with international sustainability measures ahead of the introduction of the domestic policy benefited.

scholarly journals The Interaction of Private and Public Governance: The Case of Sustainability Standards for Palm Oil

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clara Brandi
Keyword(s):  
Palm Oil ◽  
Public Governance ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Regime Complex ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Private Certification ◽  
Sustainability Standards ◽  
Private Actors ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Over Time

Abstract By providing insights into the interaction between private-driven and public-driven governance initiatives in the context of the “Roundtable of Sustainable Palm Oil” (RSPO) and the “Indonesian Sustainable Palm Oil” (ISPO), this article sheds new light the interaction between private and public governance. It investigates how the relationship between the RSPO and the ISPO evolves over time and who and what drives this evolution. While the interaction between these standard schemes has initially largely been characterized by competition, it has become more collaborative and also coordinated in nature. This article argues that the experimentalist architecture of palm oil governance has fostered mechanisms for coordination across public and private certification schemes and has helped to join up the separate components of the regime complex through productive interactions. At the same time, several gaps and challenges remain, especially in light of the different interests of the multiple public and private actors involved in palm oil.

scholarly journals Barriers and Benefits Arising from the Adoption of Sustainable Certification for Smallholder Oil Palm Producers in Malaysia: A Systematic Review of Literature

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (18) ◽  
pp. 10009
Author(s):  
Nurul Fathiah Aziz ◽  
Norshamliza Chamhuri ◽  
Peter J. Batt
Keyword(s):  
Palm Oil ◽  
Agricultural Practices ◽  
Oil Industry ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Labor Rights ◽  
The European Union ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Government ◽  
Social Environmental ◽  
Sustainability Standards

Malaysia is the world’s second largest producer of palm oil, which, not unexpectedly, is one of the largest contributors to the country’s GDP. However, the Malaysian palm oil industry faces numerous issues, including a boycott for imports into the European Union (EU) on the basis that Malaysia does not allegedly practice good agriculture, fails to meet sustainability standards and exploits labor rights. To overcome the situation, the Government of Malaysia is strongly committed to implementing good agricultural practices that meet international sustainability standards through sustainable certification. To facilitate the adoption of sustainable certification by smallholder palm oil producers, through a comprehensive review of the literature, this study seeks to identify the social, environmental and economic benefits derived from sustainable certification.

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