Neighbourhood Risk Assessment: A methodology for environmental risk assessment of palm oil mills

Endorsed by the RSPO, the Lead Auditor training course provides lead auditors and other participants with an in-depth knowledge of the RSPO Principles and Criteria and their implementation. It focuses on application of the RSPO Certification Systems and audit practice requirements to ensure consistent and appropriate audit decision making.

Daemeter publishes a report, The Cost of Conflict in Oil Palm in Indonesia, a first-of-its-kind study to monetize the costs of chronic social conflict in largescale oil palm. By estimating all expenditures, direct and indirect costs, as well as loss of value from both tangible and intangible assets, the study…

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…