This report evaluates feasibility of applying the Jurisdictional Approach (JA) to eliminate deforestation from Indonesia’s palm oil sector and promote wider improvements to land governance. Based on extensive stakeholder interviews, field research, and geospatial analysis to understand JA challenges and opportunities, the report describes distinctive features of the JA, where…

This series of three working papers, and a Synthesis, presents results of field research and outreach over the past two years to understand organizational, finance and sustainability challenges inked to Indonesian smallholder oil palm farming. The series will help to inform how farmer support programs can be designed, how to…

This working paper highlighted that smallholder farmer needs vary tremendously with local conditions, but in general most farmers experience five main challenges to some degree, including: organizational, productivity, financial, legal and sustainability challenges.

RSPO supported by Daemeter launches its First Consumer Perception Study, "Seeing Palm Oil through Indonesian Consumers’ Eyes" in Jakarta, Indonesia on 6 November 2015