Economics. In 2012, the Malaysian palm oil industry employed an estimated 491,000 workers. Malaysia's Sime Darby is the largest listed palm oil company globally, based on plantation area and fresh fruit bunch production. The company was created through a Malaysian government initiated merger in December 2006.
What does sustainable palm oil cultivation look like? And how can consumers identify and support sustainable palm oil? Eco-Business explains. 1. What’s the issue with palm oil? In the palm oil industry’s early decades, companies freely cleared rainforests in Indonesia and Malaysia to expand their plantations.
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The Kellogg Company has updated its international palm oil policy in an effort to improve traceability throughout its supply chain. Kellogg – a member of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), the industry-led body that promotes the use of sustainable palm oil products, since 2009 – will ...
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Smallholders are a vital part of the global palm oil supply chain, but they are often less productive and sustainable than big firms. Experts at RSPO’s annual conference shared ways to help these farmers increase their productivity while reducing environmental impact.
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Sustainable Agriculture and the Environment in the Humid Tropics. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/1985. × Save. Cancel. Agriculture [Malaysia], 1991). Unlike shifting cultivation, the opening of new areas for tree crops has not been driven by the need to replace abandoned, exhausted lands. New plantations represent net additions to an essentially permanently ...
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The UK’s department for environment, food and rural affairs (Defra) said on Tuesday that it would only use palm oil from certified sustainable sources in the government’s own catering facilities by the end of 2015, and said it was ‘working towards’ a similar commitment from the various industries that use palm oil, including the food industry, which accounts for about 70% of total use.
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Palm oil, like all fats, is composed of fatty acids, esterified with glycerol.Palm oil has an especially high concentration of saturated fat, specifically the 16-carbon saturated fatty acid, palmitic acid, to which it gives its name.Monounsaturated oleic acid is also a major constituent of palm oil. Unrefined palm oil is a significant source of tocotrienol, part of the vitamin E family.
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Our suppliers can help us get closer to the people who grow our palm oil – which in turn helps us ensure it comes from sustainable sources. In January 2025, for example, we signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Indonesian government-owned palm oil plantation company PT Perkebunan Nusantara (PTPN).
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Value of gross output of agriculture sector registered an annual growth rate of 11.1 per cent to RM91.2 billion. Gross output of agriculture sector in 2017 was RM91.2 billion, an increase of 11.1 per cent per year compared to RM73.9 billion in 2015. Value added for this sector also increased to RM54.9 billion and value of intermediate input ...
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2020-02-14· Malaysian palm oil is a good example of how this works. Respecting our planet and its people From conserving natural resources to ensuring that farmers are getting paid a fair wage, sustainable agriculture aims to feed the world’s growing population without harming our planet or the people who grow our food.
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2025-12-22· Over in Malaysia, the Primary Industries Ministry is promoting the Malaysian Sustainable Palm Oil (MSPO) certification scheme for oil palm plantations, smallholdings and processing mills as an
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They say palm oil must be sustainable and that land conversion for agricultural use must not adversely impact the environment. They claim that we have not been complying with good agricultural practices which form one important pillar of sustainable cultivation. With the exception of smallholders who admittedly do not comply with the
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- Page 6 of 6 Recent posts related to sustainable agriculture and Malaysian palm oil
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Bunches of oil palm fruit harvested by hand are trucked to a mill for processing in mainland Malaysia. Oil palms yield more oil per acre than do other crops. But soaring demand for the world’s
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The CGF Sustainable Palm Oil Sourcing Guidelines 1. Introduction Following its 2010 Deforestation Resolution 1, The Consumer Goods Forum (CGF) recognises its responsibility to ensure that the sourcing of palm oil does not contribute to deforestation, and has
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Indonesia’s sustainable palm oil program. Indonesian Sustainable Palm Oil (ISPO) Program is a mandatory certification process that is legally binding for all oil palm growers, except for domestic smallholders. The government's mission through ISPO is to become the leading platform for the sustainability of the national palm oil industry. The
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2014-09-12· India and the palm oil sector are a good example. Earlier this year, the Centre for Responsible Business (CRB) published a study examining the market uptake of “sustainable” palm oil in
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The rise of palm oil as the world's most consumed vegetable oil has coincided with exponential growth in palm oil research activity. Bibliometric analysis of research outputs reveals a distinct imbalance in the type of research being undertaken, notably a disproportionate focus on biofuel and engineering topics. Recognizing the expansion of oil palm agriculture across the tropics and the
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2017-04-13· Unilever aims to secure the long-term production of palm oil. Palm oil traders intend to protect their product from negative publicity. A Swiss supermarket chain sees sustainable palm oil primarily as a unique selling point. When the Malaysian and Indonesian palm oil producers join the discussion, things get even more complicated. They are far
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Indonesia’s palm oil has long earned the ire of conscious consumers—its production has been linked to child and forced labor, massive deforestation and the demise of iconic species like orangutans. Most point to large corporations to solve the problem, but that’s overlooking a key actor in palm oil production: small farmers.
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2025-11-04· He cited the example of Malaysia, the world’s No. 2 producer of palm oil, which has invested heavily in technologies and practices to boost productivity and improve sustainability.
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A recent report on a Japanese initiative provides a good example of the arguments around palm oil as green energy. The arguments against it or indeed, any component of the palm oil tree is that it cannot be green because it “destroys rainforests.” The ability to grow a supply to meet our needs for energy cannot be rejected if the intent to divest from fossil fuels is an honest one.
Get PriceAs the Malaysian palm oil industry is committed to delivering sustainable palm oil products to meet customer demand, this research was to enable identification and prioritisation of areas for improvement. As an example, the Roadmap of Malaysian Palm Oil Industry 2009–2020 was finalised as one of its strategies to attain sustainable production of palm oil and improvement in the quality of
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Palm oil: What’s the issue? Palm oil is widely used due to boasting several benefits over other vegetable oils, including versatility, low cost and high yield. It has contributed significantly to economic development in a number of countries, in particular Indonesia and Malaysia, which together produce over 85% of the world’s crude palm oil.
Get Price2025-05-28· The environmental impacts of the palm oil industry are widely recognised. Unsurprisingly, many people, including many conservation pundits, consider oil palm a major evil. What is less widely recognized is the extent to which this industry has benefited people. Oil palm development, if well-planned and managed, can provide improved incomes and employment and generate investments in
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However, as more and more international companies are seeking to purchase sustainable palm oil that meets the criteria of the Malaysia- based Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil, Indonesian plantations and the government need to enhance their 'green-policies'. Western governments (the European Union is a good example) are also creating stricter
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Palm oil is a small ingredient in the U.S. diet, but more than half of all packaged products Americans consume contain palm oil—it’s found in lipstick, soaps, detergents and even ice cream. Grown only in the tropics, the oil palm tree produces high-quality oil used primarily for cooking in developing countries.
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2.2. Land potentially available for oil palm expansion. We distinguish three types of limits to oil palm expansion: (i) land that is prevented from being converted to other uses such as built-up land, (ii) land which is already used such as cropland and pasture and (iii) non-protected areas which are nevertheless important for biodiversity conservation and carbon storage.
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It would mean the EU helping Malaysia become the world’s first truly sustainable palm oil producer and an example for others on how to end deforestation and mitigate climate change.
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Sustainable Agriculture and the Environment in the Humid Tropics. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/1985. Instead, tree crops represent the principal agricultural land use in Peninsular Malaysia. Rubber, oil palm, coconut, and cacao accounted for 83 percent of the area devoted to agriculture in 1988 (Ministry of . Jeffrey R. Vincent is an institute associate at
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2017-11-22· Press: How good are competing palm oil certification systems at respecting human rights and social values? Press release. by. Angus MacInnes. Publication date . 22 November, 2017. Work theme. Global Finance & Trade. Palm oil & RSPO. A new report from the Forest Peoples Programme assesses six different certification schemes being used by companies to facilitate their
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Palm oil: What’s the issue? Palm oil is widely used due to boasting several benefits over other vegetable oils, including versatility, low cost and high yield. It has contributed significantly to economic development in a number of countries, in particular Indonesia and Malaysia, which together produce over 85% of the world’s crude palm oil.
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2025-11-08· Big oil palm sustainable change in Malaysia could be difficult, but according to Widdig, studies like this one could push the country in the right direction. “First we produce the results, then we try to get the politicians doing something about it,” said Widdig. “This is not in our hands right now. It’s important that things change in
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As the Malaysian palm oil industry is committed to delivering sustainable palm oil products to meet customer demand, this research was to enable identification and prioritisation of areas for improvement. As an example, the Roadmap of Malaysian Palm Oil Industry 2009–2020 was finalised as one of its strategies to attain sustainable production of palm oil and improvement in the quality of
Get Price2013-08-03· Although Agriculture Ministry Regulation No. 19 concerning Indonesian Sustainable Palm Oil (ISPO) was issued in March 2011, many oil palm stakeholders and observers still have questions about its national effect, how it will be interpreted in the field, and
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Oil palm was the major contributor to the GDP of agriculture sector in 2025 at 37.9 per cent followed by other agriculture (25.1%), livestock (14.9%), fishing (12.5%), forestry & logging (6.9%) and rubber (2.8%). Release Date : Friday 29, November 2025 1200 Supply and Utilization Accounts Selected Agricultural Commodities, Malaysia 2014-2025
Get Price2016-02-01· Yusof Basiron is the CEO of the Malaysian Palm Oil Council. He has worked in the palm oil industry for over three decades, including 14 years as director general of the Malaysian Palm Oil
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As fuel markets snatched up every ounce of domestic soy oil to meet the American fuel mandate, the food industry also replaced the soy it had used with something cheaper and just as good: palm oil
Get Price2.2. Land potentially available for oil palm expansion. We distinguish three types of limits to oil palm expansion: (i) land that is prevented from being converted to other uses such as built-up land, (ii) land which is already used such as cropland and pasture and (iii) non-protected areas which are nevertheless important for biodiversity conservation and carbon storage.
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