Deforestation and the Palm Oil Industry
A worker collects palm oil fruits at a state-run plantation in Bogor, West Java, on Jan. 6, 2021. (B1 Photo/Mohammad Defrizal) Deforestation and the Palm Oil Industry BY :JOKO SUPRIYONO […]
Indonesia’s palm oil angers Swiss anti-globalisation activists
Palm oil plantation https://www.swissinfo.ch/resource/image/46315522/landscape_ratio3x2/880/587/57409a201e48a29f528482f02c7c6eb0/2C0AA130DCD2C9F8E5E64E7DBF6B3DF2/292993165_highres.jpg Indonesia is the world’s leading palm oil producer and the south-east Asian country is considered also a lucrative market for imports and investors from Europe. Rony […]
‘In Indonesia palm oil is bigger than watchmaking is for Switzerland’
Indonesia is committed to reducing deforestation, according to Ambassador Muliaman Hadad. swissinfo.ch Amid a referendum just launched in Switzerland against a free trade agreement with Indonesia, the Indonesian ambassador to the Alpine […]
Can Europe defeat a palm oil ‘monster’ of its own making?
ENVIRONMENT The EU’s biofuel policy was meant to help the climate. Instead it’s been linked to loss of rainforest because of its reliance on palm oil. New rules aim to […]
World’s largest brands responsible for Indonesia forest destruction: Greenpeace
GERMAN PRESS AGENCY – DPA JAKARTA, Indonesia A handout picture released by Greenpeace on 21 March 2012 and taken on 28 February 2012 shows untouched forest in the Sungai Sembilang […]
A Tangle of Conflicts: The Dirty Business of Palm Oil
By Nils Klawitter Palm oil can be found in many of the products we consume each day. Much of it comes from Indonesia, where brutal methods are deployed against locals. One of the main suppliers says it is cleaning up its act, but has it really changed? Two months ago, […]