Commodity: Palm Oil

Improving women’s right to land in traditional communities in Nigeria

Alice Agwu regained control of her late husband's land, where she now cultivates oil palm In Nigeria, almost 80 percent…

14 October 2020

Good farming, good energy

RSPO Members in Guatemala and Honduras adapt sustainable palm oil standards

The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) has issued the Principles and Criteria for Sustainable Palm Oil Production since 2005,…

09 September 2020

Boosting oil palm farming in Sierra Leone — teachers and army officers rise to the challenge

The Sustainable West Africa Palm Oil Programme (SWAPP) seeks to contribute to the transformation of the oil palm sector in…

01 September 2020

Farmers in Liberia record a boom in oil palm yields after training

Smallholder farmers implementing best management practices in oil palm fields in Liberia are recording 50 percent increases in yield following…

07 August 2020

Smallholder oil palm farmers improve their livelihood in Nigeria

Nigeria is the fifth-largest producer of palm oil globally with less than two per cent of total global market production.…

28 July 2020

Curriculum to unlock opportunities for youth in oil palm

Solidaridad has partnered with Ghana Skills Development Initiative, through the Sustainable West Africa Oil Palm Programme, to develop a curriculum…

07 May 2020

Dutch Advertising Code Committee bans margarine’s anti-palm oil message

The Dutch Advertising Code Committee (Reclame Code Commissie) has sent margarine brand The Flower Farm back to the drawing board.…

19 November 2019

Blog: Disrupting our thinking on palm oil

During a recent trip to Asia, Solidaridad’s honorary president Nico Roozen was struck by a meeting with a farmer whose…

08 October 2019

South-South cooperation to make small palm oil producers more sustainable

María Goretti Esquivel, Manager of Solidaridad’s palm oil programme in Colombia, went to Medan, Indonesia to share experiences and exchange…

03 October 2019