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3. Delicate cohabitation
The biology of the oil palm, which originated in the Gulf of Guinea, dictates a strictly intertropical distribution, and therefore a forced cohabitation with the world's last biodiversity hotspots: the Congo Basin, Amazonia and Borneo.
This delicate cohabitation also affects other field-grown oilseeds. For example, soybean cultivation (now 75% GMO) also faces major environmental constraints, particularly in Brazil, where the area under production has risen from 1.7 to 21.7 Mha in less than 40 years.
The relationship between palm plantations and deforestation is neither direct nor automatic. Concessions are granted by public authorities to logging companies, which exploit the timber. Degraded forests are then left to regenerate as secondary forests, or may evolve into savannah or cultivated land under human intervention. Deforested areas...
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Bibliography
Websites
Dossier Oil palm and sustainable development: Oilseeds, Fats, Lipids https://www.ocl-journal.org/articles/ocl/pdf/2010/06/ocl2010176p360.pdf
Stability of Altered Forest Ecosystems (SAFE) Project http://www.safeproject.net/
...Events
RSPO Sustainable Palm Oil Dialogue-Europe. June 23, 2020, Frankfurt, Germany.
RSPO RT17 – XVII Round Table, Indonesia, November 8-11, 2020.
PIPOC 2021 – MPOB International Palm Oil Conference, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, November 2021.
FEDEPALMA – XIX a Conferencia International sobre Palma de Aceite, Cartagena,...
Standards and norms
- Système de management de la qualité. - ISO 9000 -
- Système de management environnemental. - ISO 14000 -
- Responsabilité sociale. - ISO 26000 -
- IFC-World Bank : http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/758161490942631734/pdf/113766-WP-FRENCH- Performance-Standards-2012-Full-Document- - IFC Standards -
Regulations
EU Regulation no. 1169/2011 of 25/10/11 on the provision of food information to consumers – OJ EU L304, 22/11/11, p. 18-63.
Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/807 of March 13, 2019 supplementing Directive (EU) 2018/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards, on the one hand, the determination of feedstocks with a high risk of inducing indirect land-use change whose area of...
Directory
AIPH (Association Interprofessionnelle du Palmier à Huile de Côte d'Ivoire) http://www.aiph.ci/
Forest Preservation Alliance https://alliance-preservation-forets.org/
Amsterdam Declaration "Towards Eliminating Deforestation from...
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