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RSPO P&C 2018 NATIONAL INTERPRETATION (NI) PROCESS IN CAMEROON WWF SEEKS AN INDEPENDENT FACILITATOR FOR THE NATIONAL INTERPRETATION OF THE ROUNDTABLE ON SUSTAINABLE PALM OIL, PRINCIPLES & CRITERIA Context and Justification: Driven by the ever-increasing global demand for edible oils especially palm oil, the past few decades have seen a rapid expansion of the production of palm oil in the tropics including Cameroon. Palm oil is one of the commodities envisaged to leverage Cameroon’s economic ambition of becoming an emerging economy by 2035. With annual production estimated at about 300,000 tons, the Government’s ambition is to increase production by 450,000 tons by 2020 in an effort to offset its current annual structural deficit estimated at 130,000 tons and to become a net palm oil exporter. The development of the palm oil sector in Cameroon remains largely regulated within the confines of the national laws and in the absence or weak application of any sustainability standard. The absence of a sustainability standard may impact the country’s ambition considering the increasing global pressure to ensure that palm oil production is sustainable i.e. meets social, environmental and economic standards of sustainable development. In 2013, Cameroon embarked on elaborating a national sustainable palm oil strategy but this strategy finalized as far back as December 2014 and updated in May 2016 is still pending official endorsement from Government. At the same time, the Government has signed onto initiatives like the African Palm Oil Initiative with the development of National Guiding Principles. While these initiatives aimed at enriching the policy landscape, there is a need to move beyond policies creating the enabling environment to standards that puts Cameroon’s palm oils sector at the global platform of sustainability. This is also motivated as the country’s major palm oil producing companies i.e. SOCAPALM and SAFACAM are gearing towards …