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4. From deforestation to sustainable development
The large-scale plantation programs currently underway in Africa (Liberia, Angola, Gabon, Cameroon) also pose a growing threat to forests . Indeed, the growing number of regulations prohibiting the conversion of natural forests, the shortage of land, the monitoring of major land acquisitions, and the hopes raised by Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) in major producing countries such as Malaysia and Indonesia, are prompting major Asian companies to diversify their production zones and invest in Africa.
Since 2010, 27 projects for industrial oil palm plantations in West and Central Africa have failed or been abandoned....
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From deforestation to sustainable development
Conditions for sustainable operation
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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