Eighteen farmers from Pepesa in the Prestea Huni-Valley Municipality have received aid from the Gold Fields Ghana Foundation (GFGF) to establish an oil palm nursery production company called “Ecopalms ...

By Juliana Agbo. Solidaridad West Africa has trained 48 women and youths on oil palm nursery establishment, management, and agri-business academy in Enugu to tackle the challenges of low yield due ...

Ghana’s oil palm industry is grappling with a significant production shortfall, raising concerns about the sector’s long-term ...

(11/26/2013) A controversial palm oil project set in the West African rainforest in Cameroon has won a three-year provisional lease to convert 20,000 hectares of land for plantations.

Here, stretching off into the distance, are rows upon monotonous rows of African palms. They all belong to Palmas del Ixcán, one of the country’s largest exporters of edible palm oil. The company’s ...

A total of 61 independent oil palm farmers from Batubara Regency, North Sumatra, participated in a field trip to PT Eastern ...

Palm oil is in bread, instant noodles, Girl Scout cookies, lipstick, Nutella and ice cream, to name a few. People around the world use it to cook daily. But to make all of that oil, ...

In neighbouring Malaysia, where oil palms tend to be older, the replanting rate in 2022 slowed to 100,000 hectares from 160,000 hectares replanted in 2020, according to the Malaysian Palm Oil Board.

Temporal variation in nitrous oxide (N2O) fluxes from an oil palm plantation in Indonesia: An ecosystem‐scale analysis. GCB Bioenergy, 2023; 15 (10): 1221 DOI: 10.1111/gcbb.13088; ...

Item 1 of 2 A mini tractor grabber collects palm oil fruits at a plantation in Pulau Carey, Malaysia, January 31, 2020. Picture taken January 31, 2020.

Across swathes of Southeast Asia, maturing palm oil trees, some as tall as a 12-storey building, are turning into a multi-billion dollar headache for local farmers, regional governments and ...

“Palm oil has been a pervasive problem for a while,” said Ashley Thomson, a senior policy adviser at Global Witness. “What this analysis shows, in the other commodities as well, is just how ...