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The premium the smallholders receive helps them to build capacity for further production of sustainable palm oil. Palm oil, which is used in modern food products, such as biscuits, pies and ready meals is one of the largest drivers of global deforestation, with Malaysia and Indonesia, which have some of the richest rainforests on the planet ...
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Oil Development, Deforestation, and Indigenous Populations in the Ecuadorian . Article (PDF Available) · January 2009 with 509 Reads How we measure 'reads' A 'read' is counted each time ...
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Buy buddleia 'Nanho Blue' and 'Nanho Purple' from Saga Garden Centre. For a ‘heavy-handed’ buddleia choose ‘Dartmouth’ for this magenta-purple flowering form has hand-shaped blooms with several spikes appearing from one ‘palm’. Collected on Dartmoor in 1971 (by a retired American gardener who was holidaying in Devon) cuttings had to ...
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Over the last two decades, the plantation sector has laid waste to Indonesia’s forests and peatlands. Millions of hectares have been destroyed for pulp and oil palm concessions at great cost to ...
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Editor's note: At the heavily watched POC KL, the largest palm oil conference, observers note unusually hearing all three palm oil predictors aligned point to a further price rise in coming months; due to dry weather weakening output, with an unusual drop in production amidst trend of continual increase.
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Palm oil production is vital for the economy of Malaysia, which is the world's second- largest producer of the commodity after Indonesia. The Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB) is a government agency responsible for the promotion and development of the palm oil sector in the country. The country's palm oil industry produces about 90 million tonnes of lignocellulosic biomass, including empty fruit
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French NGOs and multinational oil and gas company Total continue their arm-wrestling over the tax status of palm oil palm oil tax saga palm oil in fuels because of deforestation.
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San Francisco, CA Today the world’s largest palm oil certification scheme, the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), ordered the suspension of the “sustainability” certificates of Indonesian palm oil giant Indofood’s subsidiary, London Sumatra (Lonsum). This is the latest episode in an ongoing saga with the company after over twenty violations of the RSPO’s standard and 10
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Introduction []. Oil palm plantations produce a vegetable oil from oil palms such as the African Elaeis guineensis.Crude palm oil is made from squeezing the fruit of an oil palm while while palm kernel oil comes from crushing the kernel of the fruit.Palm oil may be used in various everyday products including ice cream, packaged bread, margarine, lipstick, soap, laundry detergent, and bio-fuel.
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The palm oil industry has caused dramatic deforestation in Indonesia. This report, based on an Eyes on the Forest investigation, demonstrates how tainted crude palm oil entered the supply chains of several of the most well-known palm oil suppliers in the world, including subsidiaries of the Sinar Mas group and Wilmar that operate in Indonesia.
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The decision by the European Commission to approve a certification scheme for palm oil has been condemned by environmental groups, which say the biofuel is driving deforestation in Indonesia and
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The sheer volume of Indonesian palm oil has drawn criticism. An announcement of a 1.3 million-hectare increase in land devoted to palm oil production between 2000 and 2008, up to 7.3 million hectares, hasn't helped. This comes amid a 2,000 percent increase over 30 years, according to Indonesia's Center for International Forestry Research.
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Earlier this year, the European Parliament voted on the renewable energy directive (RED). While the outcome was not ideal, we welcomed Parliament’s vote because it caps food-based biofuels, redirects investments into the fuels of the future (electricity, advanced biofuels) and ends support for palm oil
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he situation analysis primarily focuses on oil palm in the context of biodiversity conservation based on literature published before 31 January 2025, and aims to provide a constructive pathway to
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11 of the World’s Most Important Forests Set for Catastrophic Deforestation by 2030. New WWF report identifies global according to findings in the latest chapter of WWF’s Living the biggest cause of deforestation is expanding agriculture including commercial livestock, palm oil
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Twenty-five palm oil groups had cleared over 130,000 hectares of rainforest since the end of 2015.That is an area almost twice the size of Singapore destroyed in less than three years.
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Glob- ally, production of palm oil has doubled during the past decade, and is set to do so again by 2020. Cultivation of the oil palm plant already has exacted a devastating toll on the birds of Indonesia (and of Malaysia, where most of the rest of the world’s oil palm is grown).
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Global Deforestation is a relatively short book, comprising just six chapters but well referenced, and some figures are reproduced in color at the end. It begins with an introduction to the drivers of deforestation, including a historical perspective that describes the trajectory of clearing and in some cases recovery by region.
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In addition, recorded changes in the environment as a result of oil palm expansion in the region are likely to be experienced in other areas of the world in the future, as oil palm cultivation expands in
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PRESS RELEASE: Palm Oil Giant Golden Agri-Resources Removed from Dow Jones Sustainability Index after Bribery and Corruption Scandal including consistent and well-documented allegations of deforestation, a local chapter in Indonesian Borneo of the National Alliance of Indigenous Peoples.
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The Brazil palm oil market size was estimated at USD 738.2 million in 2025 and is projected to register a CAGR of 13.6 % from 2025 to 2025. Significant rise in consumption owing to its cheaper prices coupled with rising awareness regarding its health benefits are anticipated to drive the market growth
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5-3-2020· Spot a spider monkey from your armchair: Citizen scientists urged to help tackle deforestation and habitat loss by scouring drone footage for sightings of
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Ferrero Group reaches the goal of 100% certified segregated RSPO sustainable palm fruit oil and goes beyond As of 1st January 2015 Ferrero products are produced with only palm fruit oil that is 100% certified as sustainable and segregated according to the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) supply chain, one year ahead of its original target.
Get PriceThe Nestle palm oil saga. In June 2025, Nestle was suspended from the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) for failing to submit progress reports to the association, as well as neglecting to pay its membership fees of €2,000 (US$2,338).
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These five megatrends present major global threats for planet Earth — problems that must be solved if the world is to remain a supportive habitat for humans and other species. DW looks at causes
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SDI is partnering with the Civil Society Oil Palm Working Group and the Bomi Chapter of the Civil Society Council of Liberia. “SDI will work with civil society council of Liberia, Bomi Chapter to build a mass movement of community members acting to defend their land rights,” the project document said in a release on Tuesday, January 28.
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Type: Book. Achieving sustainable cultivation of oil palm Volume 1 Introduction, breeding and cultivation techniques Editor Professor Alain Rival is Regional Director for South East Asia and Focal Point for Oil Palm Research at CIRAD, the internationally-renowned French Center for International Cooperation in Agricultural Research for Development.
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Greenpeace exposes Indonesian palm oil firm's are the latest chapter in a long and bitter dispute and which is also under intense international pressure to curb deforestation,
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on palm oil and deforestation of reminds the Commission of its objective in the COP21negotiations to halt global forest cover loss by 2030 at the latest and to reduce gross tropical deforestation by along with binding and enforceable sustainable development chapters covering deforestation, environment, human rights abuses
Get PriceIndonesia’s oil palm expansion during the last two decades has resulted in widespread environmental and health damages through land clearing by fire and peat conversion, but it has also contributed to rural poverty alleviation. In this paper, we examine the role that decentralization has played in the process of Indonesia’s oil palm development, particularly among independent smallholder
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6-3-2020· Latest news . by Earth Hour. 4 ways environmental issues have changed over the years. Data released today shows that deforestation is leading to mass extinction. 13 Dec 2025. Chapter 1 "Forests for a living planet" PDF 5.91 MB. Living Forests Report:
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However, at a press conference in Brussels this week, trade commissioner Cecilia Malmström said: “The agreement, when it’s ready, will obviously contain trade and sustainable development chapter with reference to deforestation ,” she said.
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