Berita Arkib

03/12/2008 (Guardian Newspaper) - THE Plantation Owners Forum of Nigeria (POFON) over the weekend in Benin called on the Federal Government to make a definite pronouncement on the alleged lifting of the ban on the importation of crude vegetable oil and its related products.

03/12/2008 (Reuters), Nusa Dua, Indonesia - Indian buyers who defaulted on palm oil imports from Indonesia have begun to ship out a portion of the old contracts following protests from producers, an industry official said.

02/12/2008 (Mongabay.com) - A dramatic fall in palm oil prices may provide an opportunity for plantation giants to add to their holdings, reports Reuters.

02/12/2008 (Mongabay.com) - HSBC has cut lending to oil palm developers and logging companies in Malaysia and Indonesia due to environmental concerns, reports Reuters.

02/12/2008 (Food Processing) - The hot nutrition and wellness issues coming in 2009 and beyond start with the very youngest members of the family. Growing awareness of the equation of “unhealthy food + children = future unhealthy adults,” coupled with advances in food and ingredient processing are influencing how parents feed infants and toddlers in the 21st century.

02/12/2008 (Reuters), NUSA DUA, Indonesia - India, the world's second largest vegetable oil importer, could tax crude palm oil shipments within a month, top industry analyst Dorab Mistry said on Tuesday.

02/12/2008 (International Herald Tribune) - A slump in palm oil prices is giving Asia's cash-rich planters a chance to take over smaller companies that mushroomed in recent years as commodities boomed but are now struggling to survive.

02/12/2008 (My Sinchew), Kuala Lumpur - Oil palm smallholders are still making a profit, although smaller, from crude palm oil (CPO) which is at a low level of RM1,500 per tonne at the moment.

02/12/2008 (The Jakarta Post) - Greenpeace strongly criticized the recent annual meeting of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) in Bali for being too soft on its "green-washing" members (growers and buyers). Abetnego Tarigan, the newly elected director of palm oil business watchdog Sawit Watch, shared with The Jakarta Post's Kornelius Purba his views about the RSPO, Indonesia's palm oil situation, and his experience as an NGO activist.

02/12/2008 (BBC News) - A major international study says palm oil plantations reduce plant and animal diversity, and do little to reduce carbon emissions.

01/12/2008 (Reuters), Poland - Clearing tropical forests to plant biofuels is a bad idea for the climate and reduces the diversity of animal and plant life, a study found on Monday.

01/12/2008 (Market Watch), Washington - Keeping tropical rain forests intact is a better way to combat climate change than replacing them with biofuel plantations, a study in the journal Conservation Biology finds.