Date: 12 December, 09.00 AM CET | 15 PM WIB Speaker: Dr Wahyu Darsono, Topic: “Oil Palm – Livestock integration in South Kalimantan” Language: English, with translation of slides in Bahasa Indonesia. Register via this link: https://forms.gle/T9KrCcRid7GArtM26
October 15 2024 Nahrowi and Sudrajat, with the sheep manager and the mill manager, showed the IPB Jonggol research site on Java island to Pak Wahyu from South Kalimantan and Aart vd Linden from Animal Sciences Wageningen University. In Jonggol there is an oil palm mill which may be transformed to a test mill when…
Do you know that oil palm trunks can be transformed into sturdy building materials and stunning furniture? Once considered waste, these trunks hold incredible potential to be repurposed into high-quality, eco-friendly products. With the growing demand for sustainable alternatives, oil palm trunks offer a renewable resource that not only helps reduce deforestation but also supports…
The SustainPalm program organized a panel on ‘Evaluating sustainable transformation in the oil palm sector to decrease environmental impact and increase social wellbeing in an economically viable way’. Jusrian Saubara Orpa Yanda from PT Arconesia presented opportunities and challenges for upscaling intercropping in oil palm fields. Wolter Elbersen (Wageningen Food & Biobased research) discussed options…
Maja Slingerland (WU) presented as invited speaker on behalf of the living lab team of SUSTAINPALM in PT BKB Siska in South Kalimantan. She presented on ‘Quality and Quantity of Plantation undergrowth in Integrated Cattle-Oil Palm Production Systems’. See presentation material here. In the same conference, Mr. Nahrowi (IPB) presented about The Effect of the Combination Boron…
On October 7th 2024 staff and students from the Vocational High School for Agriculture, SMKN 3 Pertanian, Bengkulu Tengah visited the SUSTAINPALM supported intercropped oil palm fields in Bengkulu. One picture shows students next to oil palm watermelon combination. A second picture shows two students, a farmer who is a former graduate of the school,…
SustainPalm WP3 colleagues from the Lambung Mangkurat University (ULM) published an article about the potential for developing an intercropping system on oil palm field in peatland. In this study they investigated the factors that influence the development of such a system by organising group discussion forums with steakholders of farmer groups, academics, local governments, and…
We would like to invite you for the upcoming webinar in the two-monthly SUSTAINPALM webinar series on intercropping in oil palm fields. Date: 10 October, 09.00 AM CEST | 14 PM WIB Speaker: Dr Aritta Suwarno, Environmental Science, Wageningen University Topic: “Oil palm coffee intercropping: practices, challenges and opportunities” Language: English, with translation of slides…
This week a workshop on “Carbon and Biodiversity rich landscapes” took place in South Kalimantan, Indonesia. It was organised under the #SustainPalm Program by Lambung Mangkurat University in Banjarbaru. Staff and students from IPB University, Lambung Mangkurat University and Van Hall Larenstein University of Applied Sciences are working together in developing plans and actions to phase out oil palm from deep peat areas in…
Research in Indonesia shows that it is possible to meet global demand for palm oil without felling forests, while also reducing the environmental impact of palm oil production. Palm oil has had a bad name in Europe for many years. It is used in an incredibly large range of products, from cookies to cosmetics and…