Maria Rydlund, Senior Policy Officer Tropical Forest at Swedish Society for Nature Conservation

The slippery question of whether to ban the controversial commodity, or work with the producers.

The new brief draws together SEI research done between 2011 and 2014 on agribusiness developments – especially of oil palm – in Thailand, Cambodia, Indonesia, and the Philippines. It presents overarching insights from that work, along with recommendations for how the industry could be governed more sustainably and aligned more closely with the interests of lo