palm oil milling for small smallholders

                                               
                                               
                                               
                                               
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  • Why should smallholders care about sustainable palm oil?
  • Future research should target issues of immediate concern for smallholders. ‘Sustainable palm oil’ aims to eliminate deforestation, greenhouse gas emissions, land conflicts and labour abuses from palm oil global value chains while maintaining palm oil production as a vehicle for development in tropical countries.
  • Does oil palm cultivation help smallholder farmers?
  • Oil palm cultivation has improved living standards and alleviated the poverty of many smallholder farmers. However, challenges such as climate change, aging palms and negative sentiments in the major markets, threaten the wellbeing of and raise the question on smallholder farmers’ resilience, which remains poorly understood.
  • Can smallholder palm oil growers improve smallholder support services?
  • In general, even though the cultivation of palm oil has largely coincided with the rise of sustainability discourse, many areas for research on smallholder palm oil growers do not differ from traditional topics within agricultural and development studies on finding ways to enhance smallholder support services ( Brandi, 2017 ).
  • How important are smallholders in the palm oil supply chain?
  • Smallholders are an important part of the palm oil supply chain. Although many receive support from government schemes and/or local CPO mills, there are large numbers of independent smallholders that remain largely unsupported. As the palm oil industry works to become more sustainable, these independent smallholders can be left behind.