PALMOILMAGAZINE, JAKARTA – The sustainable palm oil initiative is poised to play a crucial role in generating positive impacts for local communities, particularly in enhancing their livelihoods and fostering environmental conservation. One significant benefit that local residents can derive from this initiative is the improvement of their economic sources of living.
By actively participating in these initiatives, people gain access to alternative, sustainable, and environmentally friendly income sources. This, in turn, has the potential to alleviate poverty and stimulate economic development within the community.
Martin Mach, Head of Environment Protection and Governance at Bumitama Agri Ltd., highlighted that sustainable palm oil initiatives often incorporate green projects, contributing to ecosystem restoration and the promotion of natural conservation.
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Active involvement from the local community allows individuals to engage in activities such as planting and nurturing trees. These initiatives not only contribute to environmental conservation but also empower local residents to actively participate in the restoration of the environment in their surroundings.
The cooperation also involve patrol which is very important to protect the forests and illegal activity such as, illegal logging and wild hunt. By involving them in the patrol, it delivered sense of belonging and responsibility, created more effective and sustainable approach to the forest protection.
“Involving the local people around the plantations delivered impacts for reforestation. They usually work to get wood in the forests and should be offered through income infrastructure to help the company to control and do reforestation,” he said, as Palmoilmagazine.com quoted from short video from RSPO, Saturday (13/1/2024).
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The key aspect of sustainable palm oil initiative is to deliver education for the local about sustainable agricultural practices. This involves sustainable method teaching environmentally in palm oil cultivation, confirms that the plantations should be cultivated by minimizing the negative impacts for the environment. Empowering the local people by delivering insight about their ability and capability to find balance between economic development and environmental conservation.
By proving alternative source of income and promoting sustainable practices, the initiatives would help to reduce natural resource pressures. The traditional methods in forest exploitation, such as, illegal logging, would be minimized when the communities adopt more sustainable and environmental practices. In the end, it would contribute to whole ecosystem conservation and make sure long term -sustainability from the local sources.
“We told them how to get sustainable ways in nursing their plantations, improve everything with their own help. It is hoped, this would escalate the results,” he said.
Prior, Bumitama Agri got Conservation Leadership Award in Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) Roundtable Meeting (RT2023), November 2023 in Jakarta for Bumitama Biodiversity and Community Project (BBCP). The project centered to three main elements, they were, protection, production, and inclusivity. (T2)
