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AJ | Indonesia: Police arrest businessman over journalists’ murder
"The suspects asked the victims why they had come to the plantation before a quarrel broke out, which ended in murder," said the North Sumatra police
Updated: Who Watches the Watchmen?
Siobhan Pearce, Forests Campaigner, said: “If the RSPO is not upholding any of its own rules and if its palm oil isn’t what it says it is on the t
Mongabay | Lembaga Keuangan Harus Bertanggungjawab Cegah Karhutla di Konsesi Sawit, Caranya?
Civil society organizations are urging in providing financing to oil palm plantations, financial institutions must pay attention to environmental and
Frontiers | Face palm: are palm oil boycotters hypocrites?
“Bananas, beef, cane sugar, chocolate, coconuts, coffee, pineapples, soybeans, tea and vanilla, to name a few, are all produced in previously forest
CIAT | Could these crops save Peruvian forests?
In Peru, many associations of small and medium producers claim to have actually grown their oil palm and cacao plantations on lands previously defores
WOL | Conversion of rainforest to oil palm and rubber plantations alters energy channels in soil food webs
Conversion of rainforests into rubber and oil palm plantations alters energy channels in the soil food web as shown by different composition of biomar
IF | Are there really any alternatives to palm oil?
Rape and sunflower plants can be cultivated in regions that do not face the threat of tropical deforestation in the same way that palm does. But expan
The Conversation | The geopolitics of palm oil and deforestation
Four major vegetable oils constitute more than 85% of the world consumption (figure 4). Sunflowers, rapeseed and soybeans were originally grown in tem
Eco-Business | Palm oil giants unite to tackle human rights challenges in Indonesia
Women have also been reported to be disproportionately affected by workers’ rights violations, as they typically make up the invisible workforce tha