No palm oil or green palm oil? Retailers face labelling dilemma
Kuala Lumpur, MalaysiaThomson Reuters Foundation Retailers in Malaysia and Indonesia should ensure shoppers can easily find foods made with sustainable palm oil, instead of refusing to stock products that steer clear of the controversial oil, environmentalists said last week. Palm oil, the world’s most widely used edible oil, is found in everything from margarine to […]
Protected forests to grow under new rules, says palm oil watchdog
Kuala Lumpur, MalaysiaThomson Reuters Foundation Protected forest areas will grow by up to 10 per cent under new rules to stop deforestation, the palm oil industry watchdog – which is working to make the edible oil greener – said on Tuesday. Under pressure to tighten standards, the 4,300-member Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil, introduced tougher rules late […]
Palm oil development leaves Liberians poorer, says winner of ‘Green Nobel’
Dakar, SenegalThomson Reuters Foundation Palm oil plantations in Liberia are billed as bringing jobs and development but actually leave locals poorer, said a Liberian lawyer who won the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize on Monday. The US-based Goldman Environmental Foundation gives the prize – often known as the Green Nobel – to six grassroots activists each […]
INDONESIA: WITH FOREST RIGHTS, INDIGENOUS PEOPLES STAVE OFF MINING AND PALM OIL PLANTATIONS
RINA CHANDRAN, reporting for the Thomson Reuters Foundation, writes about how Indigenous people on the Indonesian island of Sumatra are looking to assert land rights to preserve forests…