Oil palm trees are native to Africa but were brought to South-East Asia just over 100 years ago as an ornamental tree crop. Now, Indonesia and Malaysia make up over 85% of global supply but there are ...

Sustainable palm oil is an option. This means not clearing native tropical forests for oil palm and protecting plants and animals, by creating wildlife corridors to link forests. Despite efforts ...

The oil palm tree, Elaeis guineensis, is native to West and central Africa, and commercial plantations are now expanding in the region. If a full-scale boom developed, it could encroach on crucial ...

In exploration of their theory to replace traditional palm with BSF larvae, scientists developed a scenario that replaced palm oil plantations with native forestry. Alongside this, the requirement of ...

JAKARTA] Indonesia is betting on tiny bugs from Africa to help boost its palm oil production, as the broader sector grapples ...

Indonesia is betting on tiny bugs from Africa to help boost its palm oil production, as the broader sector grapples with ...

Palm oil’s big problem has always been the jungle-covered terrain where the tree is grown. It’s native to Africa, but Malaysia and Indonesia now produce 85 percent of the world’s supply.

Sri Lanka’s agricultural landscape is witnessing a silent yet profound transformation with the rapid expansion of oil palm ...

Palm oil is found in so many products across the world that, to meet demand, vast areas of important native rainforest have been cut down across Asia to make room for palm oil plantations.

The Indonesian Supreme Court has upheld a government decision to curb the expansion of a multibillion-dollar oil palm plantation project in the country’s easternmost region of Papua. In its Dec. 2, ...