African red palm oil, a staple in many African cuisines, is making its way into vegetarian cooking across the globe ...

Cameroon has quite a huge appetite for Indonesian palm oil technology, according to a senior diplomat, as Jakarta tries to ...

Agricultural experts in the palm oil sector have called for enhanced oil palm breeding strategies to produce drought-tolerant ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. The oil palm tree is native to one of the largest contiguous blocks of lowland rainforest in West Africa, and provides food and habitat for many ...

Water and soil pollution: Palm oil mill effluent (POME) is highly oxygen-demanding, depleting dissolved oxygen in waterways. Mill effluent and fertilizer runoff deplete waterways, degrade soil, and ...

Researchers have identified 6.5 million hectares of previously unrecorded oil palm growing wild, semi-wild and in gardens, across Africa—an area three times larger than all African commercial ...

Bangkok, Thailand (10 November) -- At its 14th Annual Conference in Bangkok, Thailand, the Roundtable for Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) publicly awarded leading global agribusiness company Olam ...

Palm oil is everywhere—especially in packaged foods—so knowing its benefits and issues helps you make smarter choices. Nutritionally, palm oil sits between coconut oil and olive oil, with mixed ...