This case study highlights how credible voluntary sustainability standards (VSS) support palm oil companies with regulatory requirements such as the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR). Featuring the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), it explores how VSS enable traceability, ensure legal production, and promote smallholder inclusion - helping businesses build deforestation-and conversion-free (DCF) supply chains that go beyond compliance.

Investigating emerging national and regional living income strategies: design, implementation and enabling conditionsDespite the growing interest in living income mechanisms and initiatives at the national or regional level, there is limited comparative evidence on how existing mechanisms are successfully integrated, operationalised and aligned into genuine national or regional living income strategies and which conditions enable coherent implementation across government and stakeholder groups.