Table 1

Examples of public policies applied in the Americas to support oil palm development; (a) Countries where public policies changed from incentive to regulative.

Exemples de politiques publiques appliquées en Amérique pour accompagner le développement du secteur élaéicole ; (a) Pays où les politiques publiques ont évolué de politiques incitatives à régulatrices.

Country Title of the public policy Year(s) Content of the public policy Objectives of the policy Incentive Regulative
Brazil Planejamento para a Implantação da Cultura do Dendezeiro no Pará 1964 ● establish first plantations X

Programa Nacional de Pesquisa do Dendê 1980–1985 ● provide high quality seedlings limit dependence on commercial seeds and seedlings X

Programa Nacional De Fortalecimento Da Agricultura Familiar (PRONAF) Eco/Dende 1990s ● offer a preferential interest rate to oil palm growers
● finance scientific improvement
● provide technical support
X

Social Fuel Seal (part of the National Program for Production and Use of Biodiesel – PNPB) 2005 ● offer tax breaks to the industrial mills supplied by smallholders promote social inclusion, stimulate agricultural production and development in marginal and poor areas X

Programa de Produção Sustentável de Palma de Óleo no Brasil (SPOPP) 2010 ● set new regulations and penalties on cultivation areas
● establish lines of credit
● provide technical assistance to producers
● provide research and innovation funds
supervise the development of oil palm cultivation, restrict plantations development to degraded areas, preserve forests, include family farming X

Colombia Fondo de Fomento Palmero (FFP) 1994 ● fund research and marketing programs X

Decreto 2354 : Fondo de Estabilización de Precios para el Palmiste, el Aceite de Palma y sus Fracciones (FEP palmero) 1996 stabilize the income of producers X

CONPES 3477 : Estrategia Para El Desarrollo Competitivo Del Sector Palmero Colombiano 2007 ● offer credits to renew crops and to modernize extraction mills
● support the first productive alliance with 640 families
sustainably increase the competitiveness and production of the sector X

CONPES 3510 : Lineamientos de política para promover la producción sostenible de biocombustibles en Colombia 2008 produce knowledge on environmental issues, encourage an environmental certification program for biofuels, zoning of biofuel establishment areas, promote reduction of GHG emissions, strengthen environmental regulations X

Ecuador Plan de Mejor Competitiva de la cadena palma de aceite (PMC) 2014 analyze the sector and its prospects, design strategic development

Decreto 427 2014 ● offer tax exemptions for growers in the region of the Esmeraldas X

PROPALMA 2015 ● provide training and certification to growers increase the productivity of the sector X

Peru Decreto Supremo 015-2000-AG 2000 ● declare the oil palm plantations of national interest recover land allocated to migratory agriculture and illegal crops (coca) by establishing oil palm plantations X

Plan Nacional de Promocion de la Palma Aceitera. Perú 2000–2010 2001 expand oil palm in the Amazonian region X

Plan Nacional de Desarrollo Sostenible de la Palma Aceitera en el Peru (Resolucion Ministerial No0565-2015-Minagri) 2015 strengthen and sustainably improve the competitiveness, improve the services offered to producers, improve institutions and policies related to oil palm cultivation X

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