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Malaysian palm oil futures fall under fundamental pressure, amplifying the impact on other oil prices
Palm oil consumption forecast to increase
Palm oil inventories to stay elevated next year
CPO Reference Price Falls 3.9 Percent in December 2025
Palm oil tested on sustainability
03/03/2010 (Asia Times Online), NUSA DUA, Bali - Palm oil plantations play a major role in the growing problems of deforestation and greenhouse gas emissions in Indonesia and tropical woodlands around the world. Last week's gathering of the International Conference on Oil Palm and Environment (ICOPE) is one move toward making the industry part of the solution.
Palm oil: environmental curse or a blessing?
02/03/2010 (Asia One News), NUSA DUA, Indonesia - It is blamed for everything from deforestation to threatening the extinction of the orangutan, but palm oil is a vital source of income for many developing countries, the crop's producers say.
Portland palm oil protest: Harbour authority\'s support for scheme
01/03/2010 (Dorset Echo) - Steve Davies, chief executive of Portland Harbour Authority, said: “The port has been keen to support the proposal for the biofuel plant on land on Portland Port.
Ondo to Witness Palm Oil Revolution
03/03/2010 (The New York Times) - Children love airplanes! It probably seemed like a perfectly good idea to an air traffic controller at Kennedy International Airport to bring his children to work last month — heck, this country has a whole day set aside for that sort of thing.
Wilmar to Expand India Business to Half of China
01/03/2010 (Bloomberg) - Wilmar International Ltd., the world’s biggest palm-oil trader, aims to expand its India business to about half of China in 10 years as rising incomes lift demand for processed foods in the South Asian nation.
INTERVIEW-UPDATE 1-India may buy more soyoil as palm prices rise
01/03/2010 (Reuters), Kuala Lumpur - India, the world\'s top vegetable oil buyer, may shift orders to soyoil from palm oil by 500,000 tonnes to meet higher middle-class demand if the price difference narrows further, the Sunvin group said on Monday.
\'Environmentally-friendly\' biofuels are more harmful to the planet than normal fossil fuel
01/03/2010 (Mail Online) - \'Environmentally-friendly\' biofuels have been found to be more harmful to the planet than normal fossil fuel.
Can palm oil help Indonesia\'s poor?
01/03/2010 (BBC News) - Panorama last week reported on the disturbing destruction of orangutan habitats in Indonesia for palm oil plantations. But are there benefits from these plantations for local people?
Green fuels cause more harm than fossil fuels, according to report
01/03/2010 (Times Online) - The expansion of plantations has pushed the orang-utan to the brink of extinction in Sumatra, where it takes 840 years for a palm oil plantation to soak up the carbon emitted when rainforest is burnt.
