Submitted by
Erik.MEIJAARD
on Wed, 12/04/2019 - 10:12
General Information
Resolution
46478
IUCN Constituent
IUCN SSC Oil Palm Task Force 2017-2020
Period covered
Geographic scope
Global
Actors involved in implementing this Resolution:
IUCN Commissions
A6842ABA-BD24-E711-B6EC-005056BA6623
455DC7B3-D2A1-E611-B6EC-005056BA6623
IUCN Secretariat
Yes
II. Implementation
Activities carried out to implement this Resolution
Activity
Convene stakeholders/Networking
Description and results/achievements of activities:
Organize webinar "Palm oil and other vegetable oils: impacts and prospects"
Status
Completed
Activity
Fundraising
Description and results/achievements of activities:
Submitted proposal to Ferrero Scientific Board on Sustainable Nutrition to study trade offs and synergies among Sustainable Development Goal indicators in different production settings of Indonesian palm oil. This proposal has been approved and research should commenced in mid-2021.
Status
Completed
Activity
Other
Description and results/achievements of activities:
Submitted revised Terms of Reference for Oil Palm Task Force for 2021-2025 Quadrennium, which included 1) assigning a co-chair; 2) changing new of task force to Oil Crops Task Force; 3) broaden the task force's mandate to focus on all major oil crops and not just oil palm. Terms of Reference were approved by CEM, CEESP and SSC.
Status
Completed
Activity
Scientific/technical activities
Description and results/achievements of activities:
Publication in high impact journal of key findings or review on environmental impacts of oil palm: Meijaard, E., Brooks, T.M., Carlson, K.M., Slade, E.M., Garcia-Ulloa, J., Gaveau, D.L.A., Lee, J.S.H., Santika, T., Juffe-Bignoli, D., Struebig, M.J., Wich, S.A., Ancrenaz, M., Koh, L.P., Zamira, N., Abrams, J.F., Prins, H.H.T., Sendashonga, C.N., Murdiyarso, D., Furumo, P.R., Macfarlane, N., Hoffmann, R., Persio, M., Descals, A., Szantoi, Z., and Sheil, D. (2020). The environmental impacts of palm oil in context. Nature Plants 6, 1418-1426.
Status
Completed
Describe any challenges encountered in implementing this Resolution and the measures taken
Finding the financial means to fund the work we want to do to meet the goals of the Resolution has been elusive. Without funding it has been very difficult to implement studies the Task Force members had agreed to conduct. A good example is the study on the socio-economic impacts of different oil crops which has not been comprehensively done.
Please report on the result /achievement of the actions taken
Since the task force started working on the complex issues surrounding the sustainability of palm oil and other oil crops there has been a noticeable shift in language in media and scientists reporting on this issue, especially in reference to relative yields of different oil crops and land allocation to different oil crops to meet future vegetable oil demands.
Identify and briefly describe what future actions/activities are planned for the implementation of this Resolution
Future action / activity
Other
Description
The new mandate of the Oil Crops Task Force requires that we expand our membership to include more members with experience of other oil crops besides oil palm (e.g., soy, rapeseed, peanut etc). The new co-chair will also ensure that the social aspects of vegetable oil production are equally well covered as the environmental ones
Future action / activity
Scientific/technical activities
Description
We now have funding for implementing several studies that the Task Force considers important for meeting Resolution 061
Report status
Published