Reducing forest and land fires through good palm oil value chain governance

Purnomo, Herry; Okarda, B.; Dewayani, Ade Ayu; Ali, Made; Achdiawan, R.; Kartodihardjo, Hariadi; Pacheco, Pablo; Juniwaty, Kartika Sari

doi:10.1016/j.forpol.2017.12.014

Cited by 74 publications

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“…Smallholders need to cope with pressing short-term challenges before dealing with long-term improvement on their plantations. As reported by smallholders and researchers (Purnomo et al 2018;Hartmann et al 2018), in 2015 large parts of Sumatra suffered from drought, followed by large-scale forest fires. According to smallholders, the smoke of these fires reduced palm fertility, leading to harvest losses of about 50-70%.…”

Section: Which Stakeholders Are Perceived As Important Within the Insmentioning

confidence: 87%

Environmental Governance Meets Reality: A Micro-Scale Perspective on Sustainability Certification Schemes for Oil Palm Smallholders in Jambi, Sumatra

Martens

Kunz

Rosyani

et al. 2019

Society & Natural Resources

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Multi-stakeholder sustainability certification schemes have become a favorite instrument for applying good governance, though studies indicate their inefficiency at the producer level. In this study, we used a mixed-method approach to first, map the institutional context of independent oil-palm smallholders in rural Sumatra while, second, reflecting upon the impact of the Smallholder Standard proposed by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil on smallholder management practices. We hold that non-recognition of micro-scale perspectives within governance processes may partially explain noncompliance with certification principles among smallholders. The Smallholder Standard appears unable to mitigate challenges important for smallholders, who in turn cannot properly comply with it, due to problems including weather instability and high management costs. We suggest that certification schemes need to work on some overlooked but essential preconditions of good governance, namely gaining micro-level visibility and acceptance.

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Section: Which Stakeholders Are Perceived As Important Within the Insmentioning

confidence: 87%

Environmental Governance Meets Reality: A Micro-Scale Perspective on Sustainability Certification Schemes for Oil Palm Smallholders in Jambi, Sumatra

Martens

Kunz

Rosyani

et al. 2019

Society & Natural Resources

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“…Beberapa persoalan yang dihadapi oleh petani sawit swadaya atau petani kelapa sawit rakyat(smallholders) dalam mengimplementasikan sertifikasi ISPO antara lain: a) persoalan legalitas lahan yang sangat kompleks; b) legalitas bibit yang bermasalah, karena asal bibit yang tidak berasal dari produsen bibit bersertifikat; dan c) persoalan pengetahuan manajemen lingkungan hidup yang masih sangat terbatas dimiliki oleh smallholders.Poin terakhir terkait masih banyaknya terjadi kebakaran lahan sebagai akibat salah kelola kebun kelapa sawit (Purnomo et al, 2017). Penelitian lain mengungkap bahwa petani sawit swadaya perlu dididik tentang prinsip-prinsip konservasi sumberdaya alam terutama penghargaan pada keanekaragaman hayati (Saadun et al, 2018) untuk menjamin keberlanjutan.…”

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Kesiapan Petani Kelapa Sawit Swadaya dalam Implementasi ISPO: Persoalan Lingkungan Hidup, Legalitas dan Keberlanjutan

Dharmawan

Nasdian²,

Barus³

et al. 2019

J. Ilmu Lingk.

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The expansion of oil palm plantations run very quickly within two decades in Indonesia. It provides a certain amount of risk against natural resources and the environment. These risks are mainly landscape changes, ecosystems changes and livelihood system change of the rural society. In order to suppress risk, sustainability standards for plantation operation, needs to be implemented. One of the instruments that ensure sustainability standards is ISPO (Indonesia Sustainable Palm Oil). However, its implementation is still limited to be voluntary. In the near future, ISPO will be implemented as mandatory for all business model of oil palm plantation as well as for oil palm mills. This research is about to find out the readiness of the oil palm smallholders to implement ISPO, in particular with regard to the parameters of land seeds legality, land legality, and knowledge on the management of the environment. This research was conducted in several villages in three locations, namely in Riau, Central Kalimantan and East Kalimantan Province. A number of respondents were withdrawn from each village and were selected using simple random sampling method. The results showed that land legality parameter, legality of the seed, and knowledge of oil palm smallholders about environmental management reveals unreadiness of the smallholder to carry out ISPO certification. Thus, the risk of a oil palm plantation expansion towards natural resources and the environment, will still be a great challenge in the future.

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“…In contrast, NDPE compliant growers enjoy wider, more secure markets, and can sell their CPO and PKO at higher prices (CRR, 2017b). Hence, the potential benefits from green products can be used to compensate the 'benefits' of using primary forests, peat, and exploitation (Purnomo et al, 2018). While a booming market can result in expansion in accordance with the Jevons paradox, a market that changes to display a preference for land saving should result in intensification to make up for the lost opportunities of expansion.…”

Section: Indonesia: Prospects For a U-turn?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Palm oil intensification and expansion in Indonesia and Malaysia: Environmental and socio-political factors influencing policy

Varkkey

Tyson

Choiruzzad

2018

Forest Policy and Economics

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Reducing forest and land fires through good palm oil value chain governance

Cited by 74 publications

References 29 publications

Environmental Governance Meets Reality: A Micro-Scale Perspective on Sustainability Certification Schemes for Oil Palm Smallholders in Jambi, Sumatra

Environmental Governance Meets Reality: A Micro-Scale Perspective on Sustainability Certification Schemes for Oil Palm Smallholders in Jambi, Sumatra

Kesiapan Petani Kelapa Sawit Swadaya dalam Implementasi ISPO: Persoalan Lingkungan Hidup, Legalitas dan Keberlanjutan

Palm oil intensification and expansion in Indonesia and Malaysia: Environmental and socio-political factors influencing policy

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