Global sustainability standards and food security: Exploring unintended effects of voluntary certification in palm oil

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 220-226 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Oosterveer ◽  
Betty E. Adjei ◽  
Sietze Vellema ◽  
Maja Slingerland
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Palm Oil ◽  
Unintended Effects ◽  
Global Sustainability ◽  
Voluntary Certification ◽  
Sustainability Standards

scholarly journals The global palm oil sector must change to save biodiversity and improve food security in the tropics

2017 ◽  
Vol 203 ◽  
pp. 457-466 ◽  
Author(s):  
Badrul Azhar ◽  
Norzanalia Saadun ◽  
Margi Prideaux ◽  
David B. Lindenmayer
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Palm Oil ◽  
Oil Sector ◽  
The Tropics ◽  
Improve Food Security

scholarly journals KETAHANAN PANGAN RUMAH TANGGA PETANI KELAPA SAWIT DI KECAMATAN BANGUNREJO KABUPATEN LAMPUNG TENGAH

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 516
Author(s):  
Alfu Mifta Khusufa ◽  
Dwi Haryono ◽  
Fembriarti Erry Prasmatiwi
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Palm Oil ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Food Prices ◽  
Food Distribution ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
Household Food Security ◽  
Dietary Habit ◽  
Affecting Factors ◽  
Food Reserves

The aims of this research are to analyze the level of food security, the factors that influence the level of household food security, and efforts to increase the level of food security of palm oil farmer households.   The location of this research is chosen purposively in Bangunrejo Sub district, Central Lampung Regency in which respondents are 75 palm oil farmers household.  The data were collected in January – March 2019 using a survey method and analyzed using cross-classification between the share of food expenditure and energy adequacy level, ordinal logistic regression, and descriptive qualitative analysis.  The results of the research showed that the majority of farmer households (61.33%) were classified as food secure, and the rest were classified as less food secure (28%), vulnerable to food (9.33%), and food insecure (1.33%).  The affecting factors on the level of food security were formal education level of housewives, households’ income, and number of household members. The efforts to increase the level of food security by Government were through monitoring food availability and food reserves, developing food distribution and stabilization of food prices, Program Keluarga Harapan (PKH), Raskin, and Bantuan Pangan Non Tunai (BPNT). Whereas, the efforts by palm oil farmer households were food loan (93.33%) and changing dietary habit (6.67%).Key words: cross-clasification, food security, palm oil farmer households

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 DIFFUSION OF GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY STANDARDS: THE INSTITUTIONAL FIT OF THE ASC-SHRIMP STANDARD IN INDONESIA

2016 ◽  
Vol 56 (4) ◽  
pp. 411-423 ◽  
Author(s):  
Greetje Schouten ◽  
Sietze Vellema ◽  
Jeroen van Wijk
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Change ◽  
Organizational Fields ◽  
Institutional Fit ◽  
Transformative Capacity ◽  
Global Sustainability ◽  
Global Partnership ◽  
Global Standards ◽  
Stakeholder Partnerships ◽  
Multi Stakeholder ◽  
Sustainability Standards

ABSTRACT The past two decades saw a rapid proliferation of sustainability standards created by multi-stakeholder partnerships of multinationals and international NGOs. This paper argues that the transformative capacity of these global partnerships to bring about sustainable change largely depends on how well the institutional features of global sustainability standards fit local organizational fields. This paper therefore aims to unravel the dynamics of global-local interactions. To this end, the concept of institutional fit is operationalized to assess whether and how the technical, cultural and political characteristics intrinsic to global sustainability standards are able to connect to local projects, strategies and practices. The introduction of the Aquaculture Stewardship Council's standard into the Indonesian shrimp sector is used as a case to investigate these interactions. This paper shows that a process of fitting occurs when provisional institutions generated within a global partnership can be modified. We argue that global sustainability standards can benefit from steering more explicitly on dovetailing regulative and normative structures of global and local organizational fields. Local NGOs can play important mediating roles in this regard, which can potentially increase the transformative capacity of global standards in terms of generating and accelerating sustainable change.

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