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Oil palms (Elaeis guineensis) Oil palm fruit is one of the most widely produced primary crops in the world.. An estimated 1.5 million small farmers grow the crop in Indonesia, along with about 500,000 people directly employed in the sector in Malaysia, plus those connected with related industries.
In 2004, Cargill was the largest US importer of palm oil, sourcing the oil from at least 26 producers and buying roughly 11% of Indonesia's total oil palm output. [11] By 2006, there had been hundreds of cases of social conflict documented at Cargill's oil palm plantations by NGOs, government, and Indonesia's National Human Rights Court. [12]
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Members of the RSPO include palm oil producers, environmental groups, and manufacturers who use palm oil in their products.No mention to well documented nocive health effects of palm oil is made by the organization, however. [5] [6] [2] In 2014, Indonesia accounted for 40% of global palm oil production and 44% of the total RSPO-certified areas. [7]
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The working group concluded that butter hardening could not be "solely attributed" to palm oil supplementation. [11] An academic also correlated palmitic acid content in butter with hardness, critiqued the lack of transparency in the Canadian dairy supply, which it linked to an inability to make firm conclusions linking agricultural practises ...
In Honduras, the business-lending arm of the World Bank aligned itself with a key player in a land dispute that has left more than 130 people dead, including Gregorio Chávez, a preacher who went out to tend his garden one day and didn’t come back. In the last decade, the International Finance Corp.’s lending and influence has soared, even as it has embraced financing methods that shield ...
“The current U.S. intake of oils is in the range recommended for heart health,” Petersen assured. A few eyebrows could be raised over the fact that the new review was “financially supported ...