CAREY ISLAND, April 11 — Malaysian palm oil farmer Reta Lajah is one of only a few in her village to be certified green and ethical, after a year-long journey to join a global...
CAREY ISLAND, April 11 — Malaysian palm oil farmer Reta Lajah is one of only a few in her village to be certified green and ethical, after a year-long journey to join a global scheme that she hopes will help her navigate a new European Union law to curb deforestation.
That could push risk-averse palm oil buyers in Europe to switch to larger plantations with deeper pockets. In response, many larger growers in Indonesia and Malaysia — the world’s top two palm oil producers — have sought certification from the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil , a body of plantation firms, consumer groups and environmental organisations.
Reta has been a palm oil grower for 35 years and now experiments with natural fertilisers, uses less chemicals and pesticides, and allows areas on her land to be overgrown with leaves and branches to improve soil quality and the environment. Sustainability advisors such as Wild Asia, a Malaysia-based social enterprise, work with smallholders like Reta to help them meet RSPO standards but they, too, are worried about the new EU law.
And Malaysian palm oil and rubber smallholders last month filed a petition to the EU to protest against the new law. Marks of Dublin City University said the EU could offer a premium price for palm oil produced sustainably and legally, and set a minimum quota for the share sourced from smallholders. Antoine Gilbert, EU policy officer at the Forest Peoples Programme , a European human rights group, urged the RSPO to upgrade its standards to match the ambitions of the EU law.
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