Consumer goods companies such as Unilever, Cargill, General Mills and Nestlé that together represent about 90 percent of
the palm oil trade have committed through the Tropical Forest Alliance to deforestation - free supply chains by 2020.
The palm oil trade has turned these elephants into refugees.
Not exact matches
Additionally, prices for its major commodity exports - crude
oil and
palm oil - have dropped sharply and its currency, the ringgit, is
trading close to its lowest levels since the Asian financial crisis of the late 1990s.
Prices for major commodity exports crude
oil and
palm oil have dropped sharply and its currency, the ringgit, is
trading close to its lowest levels since the Asian financial crisis in the late 1990s.
Getting to 100 % CSPO shows that these brands are committed to making sure that they are supporting sustainable producers — but now these brands need to focus on shifting to segregated sources of CSPO and show that they also support the
trade in physical sustainable
palm oil.
Nutiva USDA Certified Organic, non-GMO, Cold - Filtered, Unrefined, Fair
Trade Ecuadorian Red
Palm Oil, 15 Ounce (Pack of 2)
The RSPO allocates 10 % of income generated by the
trade of Certified Sustainable
Palm Oil (CSPO), as well as 50 % of surplus income, to the RSPO Smallholder Support Fund (RSSF).
Bob Norman, General Manager at GreenPalm, the sustainable
palm oil certificate -
trading programme, believes that the RSSF can facilitate real change as well as fostering ongoing relationships between manufacturers and growers:
Each square of MELT Organic spreads are truly good for you: certified organic, non-GMO (Non-GMO Project Verified), kosher pareve, halal, and made with Fair
Trade Fair for Life certified organic virgin coconut
oil and Rainforest Alliance certified
palm fruit
oil.
Through the Consumer Goods Forum, the CDP / We Mean Business Coalition, and the public - private Tropical Forest Alliance 2020, hundreds of major companies have committed to eliminating commodity - driven deforestation from their supply chains by 2020, including companies that account for 90 percent of the global
trade in
palm oil.
The organic
palm fruit
oil we use in all MELT products is sourced from Colombia (South America) and certified by the RSPO, Fair
Trade USA and the Rainforest Alliance (www.rspo.org, www.fairtradeuse.org, www.rainforest-alliance.org).
Our organic and non-GMO
palm fruit oil is Rainforest Alliance Certified, certified Eco-Social and Fair Trade by the Roundtable of Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) and Fair Trade
palm fruit
oil is Rainforest Alliance Certified, certified Eco-Social and Fair Trade by the Roundtable of Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) and Fair Trade U
oil is Rainforest Alliance Certified, certified Eco-Social and Fair
Trade by the Roundtable of Sustainable
Palm Oil (RSPO) and Fair Trade
Palm Oil (RSPO) and Fair Trade U
Oil (RSPO) and Fair
Trade USA.
The organic
palm fruit
oil we use in all MELT products is sourced from Colombia (South America) and certified Fair
Trade / Ecosocial by the RSPO, Fair
Trade USA and Rainforest Alliance (www.rspo.org, www.fairtradeuse.org, www.rainforest-alliance.org).
Buyers of
palm oil can now choose to support specific, named producers with GreenPalm certificates, which now include the name, address and GPS location of the sustainably certified mill
trading each certificate.
Sustainable
palm oil producers in Asia have earned more than $ 6m in premiums via the GreenPalm certificate
trading programme.
GreenPalm is gathering momentum as we head towards our millionth certificate
trade, with more familiar names backing our drive for sustainable
palm oil.
GreenPalm, the certificate
trading system that supports sustainable
oil palm production, has introduced certificate traceability back to the individual originating certified mill for the 2016 market.
By joining GreenPalm and
trading certificates,
palm oil producers have earned an additional $ 9m for their efforts — a clear incentive to continue working sustainably and a powerful message to other producers that the sustainable route is a commercially worthwhile one to take.
Organic Ingredients: Coconut Milk, Raw Jelly Bush Honey (Australia's Manuka), Beer, Organic Sustainable
Palm Oil, Fair
Trade Organic Virgin Coconut
Oil, Fair
Trade Organic Raw Shea Butter, Castor
Oil.
Organic Ingredients: Raw Fair
Trade Shea Butter, Virgin Coconut
Oil, Raw Mango Butter, Virgin
Palm Oil, Australia's Jelly Bush Honey.
Ingredients: Organic Sustainable
Palm Oil, Fair
Trade Organic Virgin Coconut
Oil, Fair
Trade Organic Shea Butter, Australian Pink Clay, Rose Geranium Essential
Oil, Raw Cocoa.
Nutiva Organic Vegan Superfood Shortening: This soy - free, dairy - free, gluten - free, GMO (genetically modified organism)- free, fair -
trade product is a combination of red
palm oil and virgin coconut
oil.
Organic Ingredients: Raw Fair
Trade Shea Butter, Virgin Coconut
Oil, Raw Mango Butter, Virgin
Palm Oil, Natural Peach Flavour.
Organic Ingredients: Raw Fair
Trade Shea Butter, Virgin Coconut
Oil, Raw Beeswax, Virgin
Palm Oil, Peach Natural Flavour.
Organic Ingredients: Raw Fair
Trade Shea Butter, Virgin Coconut
Oil, Raw Mango Butter, Virgin Palm Oil, Sweet Orange essential o
Oil, Raw Mango Butter, Virgin
Palm Oil, Sweet Orange essential o
Oil, Sweet Orange essential
oiloil.
Ingredients: Organic Virgin
Palm Oil, Fair
Trade Organic Virgin Coconut
Oil, Fair
Trade Organic Shea Butter, Star Anise Essential
Oil, Orange Essential
Oil, Activated Charcoal.
Ingredients: Organic Virgin
Palm Oil, Organic Fair
Trade Coconut
Oil, Organic Coconut Cream, Natural Peach Flavour.
Organic Ingredients: Raw Fair
Trade Shea Butter, Virgin Coconut
Oil, Raw Beeswax, Raw Australian Jelly Bush Honey, Virgin
Palm Oil.
Organic Ingredients: Rhassoul Clay, Organic Virgin
Palm Oil, Fair
Trade Organic Virgin Coconut
Oil, Fair
Trade Organic Shea Butter, Castor
Oil, Cedarwood, Orange and Cloves essential oils.
About Global Agri -
trade Corporation Global Agri -
trade Corporation (GATC), a privately owned company located in Long Beach, Calif., is one of the largest importers of origin packaged
palm oil and coconut
oil products sold in North America under the brand names Olera ® and Copia respectively.
Olera ® Shortenings and Oils, the food products division of Global Agri -
trade Corporation (GATC), is taking another major step in its commitment to be a competitive supplier of 100 % RSPO certified sustainable
palm oil (CSPO) products in North America.
«Our collective aim is to raise the awareness of truly sustainable
palm oil [so that] other producers that meet this highest standard of sustainability join the program, thus eventually becoming a collaboration of organic fair
trade producers that can truly move the needle in impacting the
palm oil industry.»
Each square of Rich & Creamy MELT Organic is truly good for you: certified organic, non-GMO (Non-GMO Project Verified), kosher pareve, halal, vegan, and made with Fair for Life Fair
Trade certified organic virgin coconut
oil and Rainforest Alliance certified
palm fruit
oil.
Le Moulin du Pivert's factory makes its organic cookies without
palm oil and supports small local organic farmers by using fair
trade ingredients from development programmes (France).
Made from organic swiss chocolate and sweetened with rapadura, this chocolately egg is also fair
trade and
palm oil free.
Global agribusiness giant Bunge has committed to building a traceable supply chain for 100 percent of the
palm oil and
palm derivatives it
trades, processes and utilizes in commercial and consumer products worldwide.
It's sustainably made with fair
trade cocoa and hazelnuts, certified vegan, free from GMOs, preservatives, colors, artificial sweeteners, hydrogenated fats and
palm oil.
And many countries outside the union are covered by the 53 bilateral
trade agreements it enjoys, conferring favourable
trading terms for basic food industry commodities like
palm oil and soya.
Palm oil accounts for about 65 % of all vegetable
oil traded internationally, and demand for this resource continues to rise.
Rapid deforestation, mainly due to the
oil palm industry and other agricultural plantations, illegal pet
trade and poaching by killing mothers so their young can be taken, has resulted in the population in Borneo decreasing by more than 50 percent.
Ngansou and other villagers in the area have embraced the planned
palm oil plantations as a welcome addition to a region that mostly survives on growing cassava, bananas, yam and coco, as well as the declining bush meat
trade.
The study, which involved experiments in supermarkets, shows that the higher prices consumers were willing to pay for conservation grade
palm oil — akin to Fair
Trade programs — more than made up for companies» costs of providing conservation land.
The European Parliament is set to back a ban on use of
palm oil for biofuels, in a bid to protect rainforests, but exporters warn this would violate
trade rules
The expansion of international
trading practices throughout the 16th century allowed the once geographically isolated
palm oil to be introduced to new parts of the world, including South America and Southeast Asia.
We can be trusted supplier of organic coconut sugar bulk, virgin coconut
oil, arenga
palm sugar, desiccated coconut, coconut sugar indonesia, coconut chips since we are Member of Alumni Association Import Export Training Center held by
Trade Ministry of Indonesia and we are Gold Member Alibaba 4th year and Tradekey Silverkey Member and registered as Chamber Commerce Member, beside we are a registered company in Indonesia.
This briefing was submitted to the London Stock Exchange's Alternative Investment Market along with a sign - on letter from over 60 indigenous organizations and NGOs from Peru, Europe, and the United States calling for United Cacao to be removed from
trading on AIM for its breaches of AIM rules and ongoing illegal deforestation for
palm oil and cacao in the Peruvian Amazon.
But UCS analysis shows that a majority of tropical deforestation occurring today can be traced to just four globally
traded commodities: beef, soybeans,
palm oil, and wood products.
(01/12/2010)
Palm oil is one of the world's most
traded and versatile agricultural commodities.
This review looked at the Fair
Trade International, GlobalGAP, Organic, Rainforest Alliance / Sustainable Agriculture Network, UTZ Certified and Roundtable for Sustainable
Palm Oil programmes.
Companies that produce,
trade, and use
palm oil must go beyond the inadequate «sustainable» standards of the RSPO to be truly responsible.