The palm-oil industry’s effort to curb deforestation has lots of flaws

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Palm oil is highly versatile, turning up in about half of all supermarket products, from pizza dough to lipstick

shed perched on top of a hill in Musi Banyuasin, a district on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, a group of palm-oil farmers wax lyrical about their crop. They started planting in the early 1990s after arriving from Java, the country’s most populous island, as part of a government resettlement scheme. Before palm oil, they worked in paddy fields and grew vegetables. But their new life is much more lucrative. Many have bought more farmland and can afford to send their children to university.

There may, however, be cause for hope. In the past few years the palm-oil industry and the Indonesian government, egged on bycampaigns, have attempted to save more trees. Satellite images show that in 2017 the rate of deforestation in Indonesia fell to its lowest level in two decades. Nevertheless, some in the palm-oil industry have made sincere attempts to become greener. The main platform for this is the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil , which started in 2004 and is made up of palm-oil growers, investors, traders, retailers ands. It issues certificates to palm-oil mills whose green practices, such as preserving peatlands or forests, are confirmed by an independent auditor. In theory,In practice, things are more tricky.

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