Edoardo Cavallo, associate at FACS, presented to industry leaders at the 10th Asia Sustainable Oil Palm Summit in Bali. His presentation focused on the existing innovative financing models for oil palm smallholders and what it takes to scale them up. Three main partnership models were presented:

This week the FACS team went out in the field. We visited the newly established mill by PT Prosympac in the Jambi region where we were shown the latest development in oil palm sustainable practices and established an interesting dialogue with the company to better understand the dynamics of the mill-farmer relationship.

FACS was invited to present at the in-house workshop held by CIMB Niaga Indonesia in Jakarta. This “Managing Palm Oil Risks” is part of a series of events driven by RSPO to engage with the financial sector in Indonesia with the long-term goal of shifting the preference of the targeted banks to actively support sustainable palm oil, and to gradually depart from supporting unsustainable companies.