Market Highlights
Egypt Staying Ahead: Window of Opportunity for Greater Malaysian Palm Oil Exports
Country’s Synopses Egypt’s unique geographical location at the crossroads between Africa, Europe, and the Middle East makes it an ideal regional business hub. Egypt is a country packed with potential. With around 110 million inhabitants, it is the highly populous country in the Arab worl...
EU policies setting global benchmarks
The US considers the EU’s deforestation policy as an important benchmark and intends to ban products linked to deforestation. In October 2021, the Forest Act of 2021 Bill was introduced in the US Congress. The Act has the objective to ban products linked to deforestation. Similar to the EU’s Defores...
Connecting Food – can the blockchain revolutionise supply-chain traceability?
Traceability, ideally along the entire supply chain, is one of the key ingredients of sustainable palm oil, but it is only possible through transparency. This is where Connecting Food, a Paris-based technology company, comes in. What does Connecting Food offer? Maxine Roper, Co-Founder and Managing...
There´s an App for that: How Indonesia is reaching smallholders
The fourth edition of the Sustainable Palm Oil Dialogue (SPOD) took place with the motto: “Securing Sustainability in Turbulent Times”. It was held in Amsterdam on 20 October 2022 and boasted a breakout session, ‘Innovative ideas: delivering sustainable palm oil now!’ among its many events. During t...
Of elephants and men: How the Earthworm Foundation works towards the coexistence of both species
During the Sustainable Palm Oil Dialogue (SPOD) on 20 October 2022, Giacomo Tabacco presented the work of the Earthworm Foundation in the breakout session ‘Innovative ideas: delivering sustainable palm oil now!’ Giacomo is a Landscape Engagement Manager at Earthworm and sees his role at the intersec...
The Rimba Collective: A fresh look at saving forests?
Under the heading ‘Securing Sustainability in Turbulent Times’, the fourth Sustainable Palm Oil Dialogue (SPOD) took place in Amsterdam, Netherlands, in October 2022. In a much-noticed Breakout Session, “Innovative ideas: delivering sustainable palm oil now!”, Neil Judd, Senior Advisor at Lestari Ca...
Getting off the couch: The trials and tribulations of sustainable palm oil
The fourth edition of SPOD, which was held in Amsterdam on 20 October 2022, also featured a sofa interview with the topic ‘Social challenges and market access for smallholders’. This particular event was streamed live to an external audience of several hundred. The nitty-gritty of sustainability Mod...
The EU’s path towards the Deforestation-Free Regulation
After difficult negotiations, EU Institutions reach an agreement A legislative initiative with significant implications On 17 November 2021, the European Commission (Commission) published its Proposal for a Regulation on the making available on the Union market as well as export from the Union of ce...
The EU’s new Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive
In November 2022, the European Parliament and the Council of the EU are adopting the EU’s new Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), which will significantly enhance and expand sustainability reporting obligations for a broader range of companies. In 2021, the European Commission publi...
Trialogue Negotiations on the Deforestation-Free Products Regulation
On 17 November 2021, the European Commission (Commission) published its Draft Proposal for a Regulation on Deforestation-free products. Under the future Regulation, commodities and products associated with deforestation and forest degradation, likely including wood, cattle, soya, palm oil, coffee, a...
