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The National Initiatives for Sustainable and Climate-Smart Oil-Palm Smallholders (NISCOPS) is a long-term engagement between key palm-oil producer and consumer countries and complements market-driven, supplychain initiatives in palm-oil producing countries. It facilitates joint action at the national level by governments, the private sector and civil society in developing climate-smart agriculture in palm oil landscapes, capable of improving the lives of the smallholder farmers (SHFs). The development of this 8 country partnership is based on mutually agreed frameworks of sustainability and has been approved in 2 phases:
● NISCOPS 1 (2019–2023), supported by the Dutch government, focused on Ghana, Indonesia,
Malaysia and Nigeria, with market interventions in Europe and India.
● NISCOPS 2 (2024-2028), supported by both the Dutch and the UK governments, adds an additional palm oil producing country, Colombia, a greater focus on Asian markets, and an explicit focus on supporting smallholders meeting EU and UK regulations.