The environmental impacts of palm oil in context Nature
Oil palm originates from equatorial Africa where it has been cultivated for millennia, but it is now widely grown in Southeast Asia. Between 2008 and 2017, oil
Small-scale Palm oil Processing in West and Central Africa
The extraction of palm oil from oil palm fruits is practiced in many countries in Africa. The technologies for these processes are, in most cases, either still traditional or very...
How the palm oil industry is transitioning to net-zero
Although palm oil has its positives, it is frequently associated with deforestation and significant greenhouse gas emissions. To address these concerns, the
Red gold: the rise and fall of West Africa palm oil empire
Breakthroughs in chemistry, in the 1820s facilitated a change to large-scale, industrial soap production. Ever larger quantities of palm oil ?increasing from 157 metric tonnes per year in the
Oil palm in the 2020s and beyond: challenges and solutions
Background Oil palm, Elaeis guineensis, is by far the most important global oil crop, supplying about 40% of all traded vegetable oil. Palm oils are key dietary
As palm oil production ramps up in Africa, communities work
Indonesia, in the process, rose to become the third-largest contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), a partnership between stakeholders in the palm oil industry, such as producers, retailers and NGOs, was created over a decade ago to make the industry more environmentally and socially responsible.
3. PALM OIL PROCESSING Food and Agriculture
3.1.4 Digestion of the fruit. Digestion is the process of releasing the palm oil in the fruit through the rupture or breaking down of the oil-bearing cells. The digester commonly
3. PALM OIL PROCESSING - Food and Agriculture Organization
Small mechanical, motorised digesters (mainly scaled-down but unheated versions of the large-scale units described above), have been developed in most oil palm cultivating African countries. Palm oil processors of all sizes go through these unit operational stages.
Red gold: the rise and fall of West Africa’s palm oil empire
Early 19Th-Century BoomThe Rise in Oil Palm BrokersColonial TakeoverPalm oil has been known in Europe since the 15th century. It was Liverpool and Bristol slave traders who, in the early 19th century, began larger-scale imports. They were familiar with its multiple uses in West Africa and had already been buying it regularly as food for slaves being shipped to the Americas. With the abofao.org
What is Palm Oil? Facts About the Palm Oil Industry
Global production of and demand for palm oil is increasing rapidly. Plantations are spreading across Asia, Africa and Latin America. But such expansion comes at the expense of tropical forests攚hich form critical habitats for many endangered species and a lifeline for some human communities.
