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Palm Oil. Palm oil (also known as dendê oil, from Portuguese) is an edible vegetable oil derived from the mesocarp (reddish pulp) of the fruit of the oil palms, primarily the African oil palm Elaeis guineensis, and to a lesser extent from the American oil palm Elaeis oleifera and the maripa palm Attalea maripa.
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Palm oil is literally everywhere in our foods, cosmetics, cleaning products and fuels. It’s a source of huge profits for multinational corporations, while at the same time destroying the livelihoods of smallholders. Displacement of indigenous peoples, deforestation and loss of biodiversity are all consequences of our palm oil consumption.
Plantation Areas and Owners Oil palm plantations are largely concentrated in Sumatera, and date back to the Dutch colonial era. Given its long history, the development of palm oil plantation and its related infrastructure in Sumatera is relatively more advanced than in other parts of Indonesia.
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Palm oil is the leading cause of orangutan extinction. It’s in 50% of all household and food products sold in the West. It’s an ingredient in shampoo, toothpaste, detergent, frozen microwave dinners, cookies, peanut butter, lotion, makeup and much more!
Jan 17, 2024· Many vast monocrop oil palm plantations have displaced tropical forests across Asia, Latin America and West Africa. Around 90% of the world's oil palm trees are grown on a few islands in Malaysia and Indonesia islands with the most biodiverse tropical forests found on Earth.
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Replacing natural forests with palm oil plantations vastly diminishes the ability of vegetation to capture and store carbon dioxide. It’s estimated that deforestation contributes up to 20 percent of global warming. Indonesia and Malaysia account for around 87% of global palm oil production and the demand for the cheap oil continues to grow.
been converted for oil palm production, affecting close to 200 threatened species, including the orangutan, the Sumatran tiger, and the pygmy elephant.38,39 As of 2024, oil palm plantations take up close to 18 million hectares of land.41 Palm oil-driven deforestation has been most prominent in Southeast Asia and Central and Western Africa.
What's Wrong with Palm Oil?
Palm oil is the leading cause of orangutan extinction. It’s in 50% of all household and food products sold in the West. It’s an ingredient in shampoo, toothpaste, detergent, frozen microwave dinners, cookies, peanut butter, lotion, makeup and much more!
Jan 07, 2024· KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 7 — The palm oil industry outlook is expected to be rosier this year with business resumption, improved production by producers and higher consumption in traditional markets, a plantation expert said. “Palm oil price will rise
What is Palm Oil? Facts About the Palm Oil Industry
Many vast monocrop oil palm plantations have displaced tropical forests across Asia, Latin America and West Africa. Around 90% of the world's oil palm trees are grown on a few islands in Malaysia and Indonesia islands with the most biodiverse tropical forests found on Earth.
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How the world got hooked on palm oil Palm oil The Guardian
A fire at an oil palm plantation in Pekanbaru, Sumatra, due to intensive farming methods and the dry season. In 1974, Davidson became vice-chair of Unilever International Plantations
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Palm Oil WWF
Palm oil grows best in low lying, wet tropical areas exactly where rainforests grow naturally. Clearing for palm oil plantations has led to widespread rainforest destruction and peatland degradation, especially in Indonesia and Malaysia where most of the world's palm oil is grown.
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Palm Oil Our World in Data
A global study of palm-driven deforestation found that in Southeast Asia, 45% of oil palm plantations came from areas that were forests in 1989. 10 In Indonesia this was 54% and in Malaysia, 40%. These distinctions on how quickly palm oil plantations replaced forests make it difficult to give a clear, single number on how much deforestation it
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Palm Oil and Global Warming Union of Concerned Scientists
Unfortunately, palm oil companies are increasingly destroying the swamps in order to make way for plantations— even though the growing conditions on peat are far from ideal. To plant oil palm trees it is first necessary to drain water from The world’s total land area under oil palm cultivation has rapidly
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5 problems with ‘sustainable’ palm oil Greenpeace Aotearoa
Transport of oil palm fruit by truck from PT Inti Indosawit Subur, an oil palm plantation owned by Asian Agri, the palm oil division of the RGE group. A recent WWF investigation documented trade from illegal oil palm plantations in Tesso Nilo National Park to the RSPO-certified PT Inti Indosawit Subur mill.
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The palm oil industry is changing — and the EU can help
The oil palm tree is one of the world’s largest sources of edible oil. It is also one of the highest yielding by land footprint, with an average yield of 3.7 tons per hectare, compared to just 0.7 tons for rapeseed oil, 0.6 tons for sunflower oil, and 0.4 tons for soybean oil.
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The Effects of Palm Oil Official Orangutan Foundation
The main threat to the survival of orangutan populations in the wild is the massive expansion of palm oil plantations in Borneo and Sumatra. Palm oil is the most widely used vegetable oil in the world, having even surpassed soya in terms of usage. Surging global demand for palm oil has fueled massive forest destruction throughout Indonesia and
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International Journal of Oil Palm
International Journal of Oil Palm (IJOP) is a newly established scientific journal by Indonesian Oil Palm Society (IOPS), or Masyarakat Perkelapa-sawitan Indonesia (MAKSI). The journal is devoted to the publication of high quality scientific papers in every aspect of oil palm. International Journal of Oil Palm (IJOP) is an online and print-mode
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Ecological impacts of palm oil expansion in Indonesia
Historical and projected oil palm plantation area in Indonesia Palm oil is produced from a tropical palm, Elaeis guineensis, which is native to West and Central Africa. It grows in tropical rainforests with high annual rainfall and temperatures in the range of 24-30° C (Sheil et al., 2009). Oil palm
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Palm Oil: Global brands profiting Amnesty International
Amnesty International researchers traced palm oil from specific refineries or mills directly supplied by the plantations investigated to seven of the companies Colgate-Palmolive, Reckitt Benckiser, Nestlé, ADM, Elevance, AFAMSA,
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Rosier outlook for palm oil in 2024, say plantation
Jan 07, 2024· KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 7 — The palm oil industry outlook is expected to be rosier this year with business resumption, improved production by producers and higher consumption in traditional markets, a plantation expert said. “Palm oil price
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Global Market Report: Palm Oil
been converted for oil palm production, affecting close to 200 threatened species, including the orangutan, the Sumatran tiger, and the pygmy elephant.38,39 As of 2024, oil palm plantations take up close to 18 million hectares of land.41 Palm oil-driven deforestation has been most prominent in Southeast Asia and Central and Western Africa.
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Poverty Wages, Toxic Conditions on Palm Oil Plantations
A report released by Rainforest Action Network (RAN), OPPUK––an Indonesian labor rights advocacy organization––and International Labor Rights Forum (ILRF) titled, “The Human Cost of Conflict Palm Oil Revisited: How PepsiCo, Banks, and the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil Perpetuate Indofood’s Worker Exploitation,” reveals the findings of field investigations and worker
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From Big Oil to Palm Oil Amazon Frontlines
Palm oil plantations have more than doubled in Latin America since 2001, and Ecuador is now amongst the top 10 producing countries in the world. One needs to fly over Amazonian palm plantations in order to fully grasp the impact of such large operations. In the province of Sucumbíos, in the Northern Ecuadorian Amazon, blocks of forest covering more than 30 000 football pitches have
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About RSPO Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil
India, China, Indonesia and Europe are the main consumers of palm oil. It is estimated that a French person consumes on average 2 kg of palm oil per year, or 6% of total fat consumption of an adult between the ages of 18 and 72 (source: Fonds Français pour l’Alimentation et la Santé, Etat des lieux, November 2012).
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The palm oil industry is changing — and the EU can help
The oil palm tree is one of the world’s largest sources of edible oil. It is also one of the highest yielding by land footprint, with an average yield of 3.7 tons per hectare, compared to just 0.7 tons for rapeseed oil, 0.6 tons for sunflower oil, and 0.4 tons for soybean oil.
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Palm Oil and Global Warming Union of Concerned Scientists
Unfortunately, palm oil companies are increasingly destroying the swamps in order to make way for plantations— even though the growing conditions on peat are far from ideal. To plant oil palm trees it is first necessary to drain water from The world’s total land area under oil palm cultivation has rapidly
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Palm Oil and human rights: What Amnesty International
Indonesia generally has strong labour laws but weak enforcement of these laws has led to companies being able to get away with systemic abuses of workers in palm oil plantations. 3. Palm oil is most sought after in India, Europe and China. Global demand for palm oil is growing fast, with 61 million tonnes consumed in 2015. In 1990, it was less
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“Green” oil palm plantations are a scam: The case of OLAM
It is a partnership between the palm oil industry and a few NGOs, with WWF as one of the main actors. It is a response of the palm oil industry to the conflicts and the environmental problems, especially deforestation, caused by the very fast expansion of the industry, mainly in Indonesia and Malaysia, over the past 20 years.
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5 problems with ‘sustainable’ palm oil Greenpeace Aotearoa
Transport of oil palm fruit by truck from PT Inti Indosawit Subur, an oil palm plantation owned by Asian Agri, the palm oil division of the RGE group. A recent WWF investigation documented trade from illegal oil palm plantations in Tesso Nilo National Park to the RSPO-certified PT Inti Indosawit Subur mill.
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International Journal of Oil Palm
International Journal of Oil Palm (IJOP) is a newly established scientific journal by Indonesian Oil Palm Society (IOPS), or Masyarakat Perkelapa-sawitan Indonesia (MAKSI). The journal is devoted to the publication of high quality scientific papers in every aspect of oil palm. International Journal of Oil Palm (IJOP) is an online and print-mode
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How the world got hooked on palm oil Palm oil The Guardian
A fire at an oil palm plantation in Pekanbaru, Sumatra, due to intensive farming methods and the dry season. In 1974, Davidson became vice-chair of Unilever International Plantations
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Rosier outlook for palm oil in 2024, say plantation
Jan 07, 2024· KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 7 — The palm oil industry outlook is expected to be rosier this year with business resumption, improved production by producers and higher consumption in traditional markets, a plantation expert said. “Palm oil price
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RSPO Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil
The ACOP 2024 reporting period is open from 15 March to 7 May 2024.
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Palm Oil and Global Warming Union of Concerned Scientists
Unfortunately, palm oil companies are increasingly destroying the swamps in order to make way for plantations— even though the growing conditions on peat are far from ideal. To plant oil palm trees it is first necessary to drain water from The world’s total land area under oil palm cultivation has rapidly
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Palm oil is the elephant in the greenhouse International
One-third of all new oil palm plantations expand onto waterlogged peat soils packed with preserved organic matter accumulated over millennia. When peat soils are drained for oil palm plantations, the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are several times larger than the carbon loss from the forest biomass when averaged over 30 years.
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