1) The document outlines the process for independent smallholders to become RSPO certified and sell GreenPalm certificates for their certified palm oil. 2) It involves forming a group, adopting sustainable farming practices, getting RSPO certified which involves a certificate, entering the certified volume onto the GreenPalm website, and GreenPalm finding a buyer for the certificates. 3) Becoming certified allows smallholders to sell at a higher price, use less fertilizers and pesticides, and improve their yields in a sustainable way.

1. RSPO Certifiednon-RSPO Certified
Improve
your yield4
RSPO Certified = Cost lessnon-RSPO Certified = Cost more
3 Use less fertilizer
& pesticides
GreenPalm
Application
Membership
Rules
Brokerage
Terms &
Conditions
6 Become a
GreenPalm member
Certified Palm Growers
Certificate
5 Get RSPO
certified
Adopt sustainable
farming practices2
GreenPalm:
The process for independent smallholders
Form a
group1

2. www.greenpalm.org
Bob Norman: bob.norman@greenpalm.org +44 (0) 1482 332013
Simon Chrismas: simon.chrismas@greenpalm.org +44 (0) 1482 333972
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Sell fruit bunches
to your usual buyer11
Agree a
certificate
price with
your buyer
97 Enter RSPO
certified volume
onto GreenPalm
website
Receive money from
certificate sale10
GreenPalm:
The process for independent smallholders
GreenPalm
finds a buyer
for your
certificates
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