Commodity: Palm Oil
A decade of Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil – A personal journey
Marieke Leegwater is palm oil programme manager at Solidaridad. She visited nearly all RSPO meetings in the last ten years,…
20 August 2014
Johnson & Johnson supports Palm Oil programme of Solidaridad
Johnson & Johnson Family of Consumer Companies, which offers the world’s broadest range of health care products, has a longstanding…
West Africa: Ghana smallholders to implement Oil Palm Best Management Practice
The oil palm tree although very productive and indigenous to West Africa remains under-utilized on many farms in the region.…
Cargill, Solidaridad and Wild Asia embark on sustainability of independent smallholders palm oil
Solidaridad will together with trader Cargill and Malaysian-based social enterprise Wild Asia start an independent oil palm smallholder sustainability support…
Henkel and Solidaridad foster smallholder programme to support sustainable palm oil
Together with Henkel’s Laundry & Home Care business sector Solidaridad will start a 3-year programme in Honduras (Central America) to…
Financial literacy and agricultural training for Indonesian oil palm smallholders
Palm oil is expanding rapidly in West Kalimantan and increasingly rubber farmers are switching to the more profitable oil palm…
Malaysia: Improving the livelihoods of palm oil smallholders together with Cargill
Solidaridad, together with trader Cargill and Malaysian-based social enterprise Wild Asia have started an independent oil palm smallholder sustainability support…
Transition of the palm oil sector in Colombia
Colombia is a country with great potential for agriculture production and a need of rural livelihood options with impact after…
Integrating Ghanaian palm oil smallholders into global markets
While oil palm is indigenous to West Africa, the region produces only six percent of the global palm oil which…
Creating an independent smallholder hub in Jambi, Sumatra
Jambi is the 5th largest palm oil producing province in Indonesia, with a total palm oil producing area of more…
