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Tag: Palm Oil

Als hij kon toveren was niemand de sigaar
26SepDecember 4, 2022

Als hij kon toveren was niemand de sigaar

Afgelopen Vrijdag publiceerde Duurzaam Nederland een welhaast neocoloniaal stukje over de ontbossing in Indonesië onder de kop 'Tien palmolie-conces

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AJ | Indonesia: Police arrest businessman over journalists’ murder
10NovNovember 10, 2019

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

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Updated: Who Watches the Watchmen?
03NovNovember 3, 2019

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

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16OctNovember 10, 2019

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

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30JulAugust 10, 2019

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

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The Conversation |  The geopolitics of palm oil and deforestation
02JulJuly 2, 2019

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

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Eco-Business |  Palm oil giants unite to tackle human rights challenges in Indonesia
27JunJune 27, 2019

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

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Bloomberg | Palm Oil Importers Won’t Meet Zero Deforestation Goals by 2020
20JunJune 23, 2019

Bloomberg | Palm Oil Importers Won’t Meet Zero Deforestation Goals by 2020

Multiple importers noted that their experiences with personal care and household product manufacturers were different to those in the food industry, w

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29MayAugust 5, 2019

EurekAlert | Palm oil: Down from the conservation barricades and out of the rhetorical trenches

Our key message is the following: The effects of oil palm, on the environment and on human society, are case-specific and largely dependent on circums

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20FebApril 7, 2020

TheGuardian | How the world got hooked on palm oil

Palm oil’s world domination is the result of five factors: first, it has replaced less healthy fats in foods in the west. Second, producers have pus

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