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Palm Oil

Pure palm oil - production from rural Jukwa village, Ghana
Jukwa Village & Palm Oil Production, Ghana
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Palm oil
Oil palm
Categoy: Oil palm
Food vs. fuel
Tropical agriculture

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In the News . . .

For the last few years palm oil has been at the heart of a major world controversy touching all levels of society from the extinction of the orangutan to the morality of putting a bottle of palm oil in your shopping cart. Have a look at some reports . . .

EU 'boycott' of Indonesian palm oil is a lie, envoy says -- Jakarta Post (04 March 2012)
Palm oil industry in the line of fire -- Free Malaysia Today (FTM) News (24 February 2012)
Palm Oil and Scout Cookies: The Battle Drags On [blog] -- HILLARY ROSNER, New York Times (13 February 2012)
PALMEX INDONESIA 2012: 10-12 October
Palm oil threat to Indonesia's orangutans -- BBC News (27 December 2011)
Palm oil plantations 'threaten Indonesia's orangutans' -- BBC News (27 December 2011)
Using cooking oil to fuel lorries -- BBC News (21 August 2011)
Malaysia's industrialisation threatens rainforests -- BBC News (08 July 2011)
Palm oil deal aims to save forests and carbon -- BBC News (08 February 2011)
Indonesia to start Green Palm Oil Certification in 2012 -- Far Eastern Agriculture

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Can palm oil help Indonesia's poor? -- BBC News (01 March 2010)

In pictures: Palm oil's impact on Jangkang -- BBC News (01 March 2010)

MY palm oil [blog] -- Ooi Tee Ching, New Straits Times/Business Times, Malasia

Orangutan plight protest at Nestle in York and Croydon -- BBC News (17 March 2010)

Orangutan Survival and the Shopping Trolley -- BBC News (22 February 2010)

Orphaned-Orangutan Rescue Highlights Threats -- National Geographic (02 June 2009)

Palm Oil Action

PalmOil.com

Palm Oil Internet Seminar (POINTERS)

Palm Oil Refiners Association of Malaysia

Palm oil research project launched by government -- BBC News (13 July 2010)

Palm oil's carbon benefit queried -- BBC News (02 December 2008)

Rainforest is worth more standing -- BBC News (05 June 2009)

Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil

Support for Sustainable Palm Oil Gains Traction in China -- National Geographic (14 July 2009)

Top five forest stories of 2010 -- National Geographic (04 January 2011)

'Whole communities' have fled -- BBC News (08 December 2009)

Oil Palm

African Oil Palm (Elaeis guineensis)

Scientific classification

Kingdom:	Plantae
Family:	Arecaceae
Subfamily:	Arecoideae
Tribe:	Cocoseae
Genus:	Elaeis Jacq.
Species:	Elaeis guineensis Elaeis oleifera

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Palm nuts in volumn - production from rural Jukwa village, Ghana
Jukwa Village & Palm Oil Production, Ghana
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Cooking palm nuts to soften the nuts for oil extraction
Jukwa Village & Palm Oil Production, Ghana
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