Sustainability certification among smallholders in Malaysia: a review / Nurul Shazleen Mustaffa Kamall

This study attempts to identify the current status among smallholders on sustainability certification in Malaysia and to anticipate the sustainability certification adoption among smallholders namely organized and independent smallholders. The inputs were obtained from a few existing literature avai...

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Main Author: Mustaffa Kamall, Nurul Shazleen
Format: Student Project
Language:English
Published: Faculty of Plantation and Agrotechnology 2019
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Online Access:https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/24448/1/24448.pdf
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description This study attempts to identify the current status among smallholders on sustainability certification in Malaysia and to anticipate the sustainability certification adoption among smallholders namely organized and independent smallholders. The inputs were obtained from a few existing literature available in database example Web of Science (WoS), Scopus and Google Scholar resources identified related 57 studies. This study focuses on adoption of smallholders towards sustainability certification. The result shows that the organized smallholder are more engaged in willingness to comply the certification standards towards sustainable palm oil production, meanwhile it is creating a lot of challenges that the independent smallholders experiences mainly regard their knowledge, financial incentives, experience of organization, external support and certification cost. In conclusion, organized smallholder are major in willingness to participate into certification schemes and in comparison, many of the challenges for independent smallholder certification centrals around the adoption of agricultural changes, the acceptance of new practices and the changing of habits.
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spelling uitm.eprints-44482020-07-20T09:29:57Z https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/24448/ Sustainability certification among smallholders in Malaysia: a review / Nurul Shazleen Mustaffa Kamall Mustaffa Kamall, Nurul Shazleen S Agriculture (General) This study attempts to identify the current status among smallholders on sustainability certification in Malaysia and to anticipate the sustainability certification adoption among smallholders namely organized and independent smallholders. The inputs were obtained from a few existing literature available in database example Web of Science (WoS), Scopus and Google Scholar resources identified related 57 studies. This study focuses on adoption of smallholders towards sustainability certification. The result shows that the organized smallholder are more engaged in willingness to comply the certification standards towards sustainable palm oil production, meanwhile it is creating a lot of challenges that the independent smallholders experiences mainly regard their knowledge, financial incentives, experience of organization, external support and certification cost. In conclusion, organized smallholder are major in willingness to participate into certification schemes and in comparison, many of the challenges for independent smallholder certification centrals around the adoption of agricultural changes, the acceptance of new practices and the changing of habits. Faculty of Plantation and Agrotechnology 2019 Student Project NonPeerReviewed text en https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/24448/1/24448.pdf Sustainability certification among smallholders in Malaysia: a review / Nurul Shazleen Mustaffa Kamall. (2019) [Student Project] <http://terminalib.uitm.edu.my/24448.pdf> (Unpublished)
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Sustainability certification among smallholders in Malaysia: a review / Nurul Shazleen Mustaffa Kamall
title Sustainability certification among smallholders in Malaysia: a review / Nurul Shazleen Mustaffa Kamall
title_full Sustainability certification among smallholders in Malaysia: a review / Nurul Shazleen Mustaffa Kamall
title_fullStr Sustainability certification among smallholders in Malaysia: a review / Nurul Shazleen Mustaffa Kamall
title_full_unstemmed Sustainability certification among smallholders in Malaysia: a review / Nurul Shazleen Mustaffa Kamall
title_short Sustainability certification among smallholders in Malaysia: a review / Nurul Shazleen Mustaffa Kamall
title_sort sustainability certification among smallholders in malaysia a review nurul shazleen mustaffa kamall
topic S Agriculture (General)
url https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/24448/1/24448.pdf
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