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SUMMARY:CRP Lecture: Palm Oil--Leading on the Long Road to Sustainability 
 with Yu Leng Khor (Head Research for Southeast Asia at LMC International) 
 - Speaker to be confirmed
DTSTART:20160517T130000Z
DTEND:20160517T143000Z
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DESCRIPTION:The Centre for Rising Powers is pleased to host Yu Leng Khor (
 LMC International) for a lecture on\n\nPalm Oil: Leading on the Long Road 
 to Sustainability\n\nChair: Dr Kun-Chin Lin\, Director of the Centre for R
 ising Powers\, POLIS\nDiscussant: TBA\n\nAbstract: \nPalm oil\, the world
 ’s leading source of oils and fats\, has undergone a rapid transition to
  sustainability certification via voluntary standards. Vertically integrat
 ed plantation giants have been keen to offer certified product\, but small
  producers and smallholders are lagging behind\, leading to a consolidatio
 n of supply and knock-on effects on product prices for smaller players. Af
 ter 12 years\, palm oil’s key certification programmes have achieved an 
 18% demand share\, all amidst rising cost-complexity and pressing question
 s about labour and the ongoing peat-fire driven haze-smog crisis. Given th
 e relative maturity of the palm oil sustainability movement\, we ask what 
 this could mean for sustainability policy evolution. Many point to the pro
 blem of policy leakage in voluntary standards. Some argue that it is only 
 (well implemented) state-driven policy that can bring real change at the o
 rigins. Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo’s April 2016 suggestion for 
 an oil palm concession moratorium bears watching. Can this reduce deforest
 ation?\n\nYu Leng Khor\, B.A. (Oxon)\, M.Sc. (Econs) is the Head Research 
 for Southeast Asia at LMC International\, a leading independent economic a
 nd business consultancy for the agribusiness sector around the world. Yu L
 eng has researched the agribusiness sector for over ten years\, specialisi
 ng on cane sugar\, palm oil\, soy and the commercial economics of its sust
 ainable supply-chains in Asia and frontier markets. She has published on a
  wide range of issues surrounding palm oil\, including sustainability poli
 cy\, the Indonesia peat fires and oil palm smallholders as well as the pol
 itical economy of FELDA smallholders.\n\nAll are welcome to attend. 
LOCATION:Room SG1\, Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Road\, University of 
 Cambridge
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