Banks remain closed, cash points are all but empty and residents of Goma, the capital of North Kivu province, are forced to ...

Cash has become so scarce in Goma, the eastern Congolese city seized by anti-government fighters in January, that some ...

“There are benefits to palm oil which cannot be ignored,” Alan Townsend, dean of the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University, told me before I traveled to Indonesia. “Palm is one of the ...

Fats can be simplified into two categories: “good” fats and “bad” fats. The types of fats in the “good” category include monosaturated fats and polyunsaturated fats. These types of ...

Aerial view of a school completely surrounded by oil palm plantations in the municipality of Tomé-Açu, in Brazil’s northern state of Pará. Image by Wilson Paz for Mongabay. In August 2021 ...

Palm oil is one of the world’s most widely used vegetable oils and found in nearly 50 percent of all packaged products, according to the World Wildlife Fund. It plays a vital role in ...

The ubiquitous ingredient contributes to the loss of tropical forests. By Manuela Andreoni Palm oil — the ubiquitous ingredient for all things spreadable, from toothpaste to ice cream — is now ...

Fibiger, Mattias, and Adina Wong. "Golden Agri-Resources and the Challenge of Sustainable Palm Oil." Harvard Business School Case 723-059, March 2023. (Revised March 2024.) ...

Utilisation of BSF larvae could help to stem the expansion of damaging palm oil production, researchers from UK-based consultancy Tunley Environmental, claim in a new study. Cultivation of palm for ...

The causes of such blazes can be complex, but clearing forest to make way for palm oil has long been rampant in Southeast Asia. A combination of climatic, economic and political circumstances ...