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Palm oil expansion reignites decade-old Indigenous land conflict in Indonesia

JAKARTA — Two palm oil companies embroiled in a long-running land dispute with an Indigenous community in Indonesian Borneo have resumed the clearing of rainforest and other land t...

Stricter laws alone cannot resolve Indonesia’s forest oil palm dilemma, study finds

Indonesia’s Palm Oil Crackdown Is Failing Its Forests — and Its Farmers, Landmark Study Warns Indonesia produces more palm oil than any other country on Earth, and nowhere are the...

Palm oil firms kept zero-deforestation pledges, but forests saw little extra benefit

JAKARTA — A new study of palm oil concessions linked to Indonesian supply chains finds no evidence that corporate zero-deforestation commitments have led to additional reductions i...

Dr. Bronner’s soap mixes Israeli and Palestinian olive oil — and dodges product boycotts

When members of Brooklyn’s Park Slope Food Coop’s voted earlier this year to boycott Israeli products, among the items to instantly disappear from shelves was bottled olive oil mad...

Indonesia takes on Malaysia in battle over palm oil pricing

Indonesia produces and exports more palm oil than any other country, but when it comes to setting the price, it still plays second fiddle to Malaysia. President Prabowo Subianto wa...

How to Prevent Biofuels from Causing Deforestation

This year, the federal government requires that more than 10% of diesel used in the US be biofuel. To meet this requirement, Americans will have to use almost 7 billion gallons of...

Should palm kernel be included in Irish livestock rations?

A debate has kicked off with regard to the merits of including palm kernel expeller in Irish livestock rations. For its part, the Irish Grain Growers’ Group (IGGG) believes the pro...

US MAHA war on seed oils could benefit Asian palm and coconut oil

Thanks to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his Make America Healthy Again tribe, seed oils have been getting a lot of unwanted attention. The MAHA types despise them. Despise is not too s...

‘We now live without this violence’: the Colombian farmers giving up coca for palm oil

Subsidies and a crackdown on armed groups are helping smallholders rebuild their lives, leaving behind decades of conflict and fearSurrounded by towering oil palm trees on his farm...

Stand Strong With Environmental and Human Rights Defenders

Environmental and human rights defenders are under attack worldwide, facing violence, political and legal persecution for standing up for the indigenous peoples, animals and the pl...

KMT calls for accountability in soybean oil contamination case

Cacao plantations in Liberia encroach into proposed Kwa national park

A cocoa boom in southeast Liberia is wiping out native forests and encroaching into a proposed national park. The would-be Kwa National Park, a dense tropical rainforest, is home t...

Biofuels in Brazil: Green Growth or Greenwash?

Biofuels in Brazil are currently being promoted to the world as a revolutionary climate solution. The post Biofuels in Brazil: Green Growth or Greenwash? appeared first on The Good...

South Africa’s top court blocks Shell oil exploration off country’s Wild Coast

In a landmark judgment on Aug. 14, South Africa’s Constitutional Court set aside exploration rights held by oil giant Shell and Impact Africa, a South African oil and gas company....

Report: Top banks accused of arranging 'sustainability-linked' loans to palm oil firms with ties to deforestation

A report by Global Witness alleges hundreds of banks collectively loaned an estimated $31bn to deforestation-linked companies operating in Indonesia's palm oil sector

Hammond Teachers Union organizing boycott of BP over lockout at Whiting refinery

The Hammond Teachers' Federation is calling for a boycott of BP after the lockout at the BP Whiting Refinery approaches its fifth month.

‘Cocoa fever’ in Liberia’s Grand Gedeh is wiping out native forests

Until 2020, 99% of Liberia’s Grand Gedeh county was covered by natural forests. Since then, cacao farms have rapidly encroached on those forests, reports Mongabay’s Ashoka Mukpo. G...

Ben & Jerry's Ben Cohen urges Kareena Kapoor Khan to cut ties with Unilever

ALBAWABA - Ben & Jerry’s co-founder Ben Cohen urged Bollywood star Kareena Kapoor Khan to cut ties with Unilever and Magnum over the company's alleged actions of silencing pro-...

The vanishing forests on Liberia’s cocoa frontier

(GRAND GEDEH, Liberia) – Off in the woods beyond the ekki trees, a sharp crack cuts through the buzzing of insects. “It’s a tree falling,” says George Bowey, a baby-faced community...

A Call for a Global Boycott of Wines Grown with Glyphosate and Any Herbicides

Greenpeace launch legal challenge against US$2.5bn expansion by Premier Beehive parent company JBS

Greenpeace Netherlands has petitioned a Dutch court to compel agribusiness giant JBS to disclose information about a proposed expansion into Nigeria. The post Greenpeace launch leg...

Palm Oil, Cocoa, Coffee… Who’s Going to Tend to Tomorrow’s Large Tropical Plantations?

Palm oil plantations, for one, are increasingly struggling with the sector’s declining attractiveness, which has hardly changed since the colonial era. Behind basic foodstuffs like...

Costa Rica banana plantation destroyed protected wetland, complaint alleges

A legal complaint in Costa Rica has alleged that a banana plantation destroyed parts of a protected wetland in Bananito Sur, located in the Valle La Estrella district in the centra...

Forests in Liberia are falling to cocoa, in half a year the EU could ban imports

On this week’s episode of the Mongabay Newscast, we speak with features writer Ashoka Mukpo, who traveled to southeastern Liberia to investigate what satellite images indicated was...