Background: The expansion of oil palm agriculture across the nations, especially in countries such as Malaysia and Indonesia, is growing at exacerbated levels. However, there is still a lack of awareness of the environmental, social, and economic challenges among the sector, ranging from the...

This paper highlights the overlap between private sector and the state in regulating the sustainability of palm oil industry in Indonesia through the presence of two different certification schemes: the voluntary, global market-driven Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) and the mandatory,...

Palm Inc was the world''s largest supplier of personal digital assistants (PDA''s). The company was troubled by the declining annual shipments of its products, which many analysts felt were primarily due to their slow technological obsolescence and increasing popularity of converged mobile...

Sustainability is one of the main concerns of decision makers, factories, and retailers. This importance increases when the organization needs to define, implement, and manage a sustainable portfolio to succeed in today’s environment of change and uncertainty. Therefore, this study examines...

Around 75% of tropical deforestation in the XXI century has been driven by the expansion of agriculture and forest plantations. Since 1990s, palm oil has been standing for a critical global traded product in terms of embodied deforestation. The European Union (EU) is one of the major players in...

Movements in palm oil price give important signals to various stakeholders of the palm oil industry in Malaysia. Thus, understanding external and internal factors that may affect the palm oil price is vital to the industry players for sustainability of their activities. This study investigates...

Trading activities represent the flow of market information to the investors. This paper examines the effect of trading activities, i.e., trading volume and open interest, on the volatility of return for Malaysian Crude Palm Oil Futures. The GARCH model is applied by adding the expected and...

This paper investigates the impact of soybean and crude oil futures on palm oil indexes by utilising monthly data from three palm oil indexes listed in Bursa Malaysia, i.e., the Asian palm index, Malaysian palm index, and Plantation index, spanning from January 2010 to June 2020. The impacts...

Palm oil is one of the most traded vegetable oils in the global market due to its versatile usage and having a lower price than competitor products. Trade is related to logistics performance as it connects the exporter and importer countries; thus, improving the indicators of logistics also...

Crude palm oil (CPO) is a valuable commodity for Indonesia's economy as the country has become the world's biggest producer and exporter. Therefore, maintaining productivity in the CPO industry is crucial to ensure that the global demand is met. This study aims to examine Indonesian CPO...

Palm oil is an essential commodity used in the manufacture of various daily products and is highly competitive with vegetable oil. However, the palm oil competition is fierce and complex due to movement of palm oil trade. The study examined the determinant, stability, and duration of...

In Brazil, public policies to encourage the production of oil palm aimed to minimize the associated potential deforestation in the Amazon. A decade after the initiative was launched, however, little is known about its effects on deforestation. This study investigated the spatio-temporal dynamics...

Palm oil is an agricultural product of vital importance for the Colombian economy, as its production has almost tripled between 1996 and 2021, making it the fourth largest producer in the world and the first in the Americas; however, there are no studies that establish the way in which...

We create a novel, spatially explicit microeconomic panel of Indonesian palm oil mills, to provide the first estimates of deforestation price elasticities based on observations of the actual prices paid at mill gates. To identify price elasticity, we spatially model how deforestation in upstream...

This study assessed the production capabilities of some modern palm oil mills in selected States of Nigeria for production of special palm oil, by collecting information from their staff on the operation of the mills. Government-owned mills (Okitipupa and Nigerian Institute for Oil Palm Research...

This article studies the Malaysian palm oil industry, tracing the industry from the oil palm plantations and ending to its finished products. Palm oil industry is a prominent industry in Malaysia, creating economic growth and development. For instance, the government helped roughly 90,000...

The Government of Indonesia has been promoting the advancement of the biodiesel sector to fulfill its commitment to support clean energy, energy security, and rural development. This paper examines the economic impact of the biodiesel sector using a computable general equilibrium model. Besides...

Three decades after the establishment of many smallholder oil palm plantations, large areas of oil palm will require replanting soon or are already overmatured. The process of replanting offers a unique opportunity to redesign plantations, close yield gaps, boost productivity and therefore...

Objective - "Sustainability" meanings are many different things, e.g. food security, food safety, and economic growth short-tern survival of the production which included social, environmental, economic, based on the institutional objectives. This study aimed to conduct the sustainability of the...

A ban on palm oil imports by the European Union has become a problematic issue, especially for palm oil producers’ countries. Oil palm has been widely used in many sub-sectors, and any changes in the production side may affect many sectors that use oil palm as an input factor in their...

Der Anbau verschiedener Agrarrohstoffe, wie beispielsweise Palmöl und Soja, steht häufig in Verbindung mit der Abholzung von artenreichen tropischen Regenwäldern mit hoher Kohlenstoffspeicherkapazität. Diese sogenannten „Waldrisiko-Rohstoffe“ werden über internationale Lieferketten...

Die Dynamik im Handel ist untrennbar von dem Einfluss der Politik, der Preise und der Rolle der Händler selbst. Obwohl sich die Handelspolitik exportierenden und importierenden Länder unterscheiden kann, im Allgemeinen wird der inländische Handelssektor unterstützt, was problematisch für...

Dramatic land-use change in tropical regions due to oil palm expansion has recently raised controversies in the broader public. Indonesia is one of the countries where such rapid land-use change is happening. In many parts of Indonesia, oil palm is increasingly replacing forests and also more...

The booming of palm oil plantations in Indonesia has brought social and environmental problems, and this should be dealt with by the law. Unfortunately, the 2014 Plantation Law has failed to realise the constitutional mandate of ensuring that natural resources be used to the greatest benefit of...

This paper studies the interactions between political and economic incentives to foster forest conversion in Indonesian districts. Using a district–level panel data set from 2001 to 2016, we analyze variation in remotely sensed forest losses as well as measures of land-use licensing. We link...

This study was an assessment of strategies for rural women participation in commercial palm kernel oil production for wealth creation in Taraba State, Nigeria. Four specific objectives and research questions guided the study. The study adopted the survey research design. The instrument for data...

The objective of this paper is to contribute towards understanding the effects of palm oil production upon key macroeconomic variables in Malaysian economy. A dynamic general equilibrium model was employed in order to analyze the dynamic macroeconomic adjustment processes arising from palm oil...

The management of waste produced during processing remains a major preoccupation to the local environment. This study aims to assess palm waste management on environmental sustainability, identify different waste management practices, environmental problems, and identify measures that can be set...

Turnover is a critical issue for companies because of its negative impact on companies, such as recruitment costs, training costs, low productivity, and operational disruption. Turnover intention has been acknowledged as the best predictor of actual turnover, hence, the importance of studying...

The way WTO dispute settlement balances WTO Members’ obligation to avoid unnecessary obstacles to international trade with their right to enact measures in pursuit of legitimate public policy objectives has drawn much criticism. The contours of this balance are about to stretched in a...