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MPOB Monthly Report Imminent: Malaysia's Palm Oil Stockpiles May Surge Past 2.6 Million Tonnes as Strong El Niño Fuels Distant-Month Supply Cut Expectations
Malaysia’s palm oil stocks rise in July despite 14.5pc jump in exports
Malaysian end of July palm oil stocks hit near two-year high
CPO futures end mostly higher on soybean oil gains
Fall in palm oil price may lead to industry consolidation
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.
HSBC to cut lending to questionable oil palm and logging companies
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.
Wellness Food Trends for 2009
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.
INTERVIEW-UPDATE 1-India may tax palm in a month\'s time-Mistry
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.
Palm oil plantations available as prices drop
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.
Oil Palm Smallholders Still Making Profits Despite Fall In CPO Price
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.
NGO activists are not unlike employees in other professions
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.
Palm oil offers no green solution
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.
Clearing forests for biofuel hurts climate: study
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.
