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8. Conclusion
International donors and NGOs agree that oil palm cultivation has an essential role to play in eradicating poverty in tropical countries, and in contributing to the United Nations' sustainable development goals. In less than a century, this crop has gone from being a food crop in Africa to one of the world's major agricultural products. This spectacular evolution has profoundly altered landscapes and the lives of populations in the tropics. Driven by global demand and the desire for development in emerging and less advanced countries, the trend is unlikely to be reversed.
The growing importance of public policies, both in Europe and in oil-producing countries, will influence the development of palm oil. In Europe, palm oil is the only biofuel classified as high-risk in terms of land-use change, and will therefore be gradually replaced by 2030, in line with the European...
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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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