Overview

RSPO and Monash University Malaysia are pleased to announce the first joint research symposium. The symposium offers a platform for researchers and industry practitioners from around the globe to share and explore latest and ongoing research findings as well as to discuss future directions for the advancement of a sustainable palm oil industry.

The RSPO-Monash Joint Symposium also aims to raise awareness and interest among students and young academics, and to support their engagement in the field of palm oil sustainability. Therefore, the platform is an opportunity for students to participate and contribute to the symposium by presenting their research projects.

The event will feature research discussions on focus areas relating to the RSPO and the Monash-Industry Plant Oils Research Laboratory (MIPO) with topics such as assessment of the performance, outcomes and impacts of social and environmental sustainability, highlighting oil palm smallholders, consumer and market demands, palm oil in food and health, as well as new technologies in palm oil processing and waste. The symposium will include oral presentations, panel sessions, and poster presentations.

RSPO and Monash University would like to welcome all interested stakeholders to participate and learn from the insights shared while expanding your global network of peers.

Event partner

POPSIG is one of the event partners.

Abstracts for poster presentations

The objective of this call for abstracts is to seek empirical and/or policy-oriented research papers that are aligned with the following sub-thematic areas for the Symposium: 

• Biodiversity and Environment
• Oil Palm Smallholders
• Social and Human Rights 
• Consumer and Market Demands
• Food and Health 
• Waste to Wealth
• Oil and Fats Processing

All researchers working on sustainable palm oil are invited to submit abstracts of their scientific research to be considered for a poster presentation at the Symposium. Abstracts submitted will be reviewed by our organising committee and will be selected for poster presentation at the Symposium.

Selected poster presentations may also be considered for a special issue publication in a journal.

Disclaimer: IChemE will not be storing or controlling any data linked to this event.