Podcasts / #palm oil
Carbon & Climate
Seeing through the haze – is palm oil still to blame?
Transboundary haze pollution is back with a vengeance in Southeast Asia. The Eco-Business Podcast talks to RSPO CEO Joseph D'Cruz about what the palm oil sector can do to put out the peatland fires that have burned annually for four decades.
Food & Agriculture
Is there such a thing as sustainable palm oil?
Some environmentalists would argue that there's no such thing as sustainably grown palm oil, because of the crops links to deforestation and human rights abuses. Eco-Business spoke to Monique van Wijnbergen about how palm can be done right.
Food & Agriculture
Child labour in palm oil: How can children on plantations be kept safe?
EB Studio
Should the priority be to stop all child labour on palm oil plantations? Or to address the root causes of child labour?
Food & Agriculture
After another haze outbreak chokes Southeast Asia, can palm oil smallholders shift to sustainable farming?
EB Studio
Smallholders have taken much of the blame for this year's haze-causing forest fires in Sumatra and Kalimantan. How can they be motivated to switch to more sustainable, fire-free production methods?
All #palm oil Podcasts
3 September 2019
Food & Agriculture
Where is the palm oil industry on human rights?
11 June 2019
Food & Agriculture
What do RSPO's new standards mean for palm oil and tropical forests?
19 December 2018
Carbon & Climate
What does it take to save one of Indonesia's last peatland forests?
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