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Live Panel Debate on the Social Impacts of Palm Oil with FPP and Sabah Environmental Protection Agency

You can watch Marcus Colchester, Senior Policy Advisor for FPP, in a recording of a live debate on the Social Impacts of Palm Oil in a Panel Debate hosted by Nadine Hawa of BetterPalmOilDebate with the head of the NGO Sabah Environmental Protection Agency and a Fellow of the Institute of Economic Affairs. The debate highlights the problems in the sector, especially land grabbing. It exposes the underlying problems of unjust laws and corruption and notes how too many members of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil are still implicated in abuses. The debate also reviewed the remedies available and looks to how to reshape land development in more just and sustainable ways.

To see the debate please click here.

Overview

Resource Type:
News
Publication date:
24 February 2014
Programmes:
Supply Chains and Trade

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