Global Market Challenges: Impact on Palm Oil and Other Vegetable Oil
This paper was presented as the plenary paper at the International Palm Oil Congress 2011 event in Kuala Lumpur Convention Center, Kuala Lumpur on 15th November 2011. It discusses on how the peak oil crisis and the demand by the ever increasing global population will impact the vegetable oil market. It also highlights on why...
Fact-based Promotion for Palm Oil
The Roundtable for Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) annual meeting is currently taking place in Sabah. As anticipated, the Western NGOs are going on the offensive to mount their 'attacks' on the oil palm industry. As expected, they have tried to insinuate and belittle the industry’s effort to promote the good name of...
Sustainability in Aviation Fuel: Palm Oil is Part of the Solution
For many years, the aviation industry has been criticized for its high carbon GHG emission. Of the total global emissions, 56 % comes from burning of fossil fuels and 17 % from agriculture. The aviation industry alone contributes 649,000,000 tonnes of GHG emission annually which represents 2 to 3 % of the total globally! The...
A Scam Behind the Australian Palm Oil Labelling Bill?
Western NGOs have been using the Victoria Zoos network to mount anti palm oil campaigns in Australia by making allegations linking palm oil production to deforestation and orang utan habitat destruction. Heightened publicity is needed in these campaigns and signatures of sympathizers have been carefully obtained to show public support.
Australian Labelling Bill on Palm Oil Against WTO Provisions
If palm oil has to be labelled for all food products marketed in Australia, it is likely to disrupt trade. Imports of food products will be affected as the palm oil content of food manufactured overseas is not labelled specifically as required by the proposed bill. Local manufacturers will need to have new and specific...
Washington Dialogue on Sustainable Palm Oil – NGOs Fail to Sabotage Event
Recently, the Malaysian and Indonesian Ministers in charge of the palm oil industry had a roundtable dialogue with US NGOs, government officials and other food and non-food customers to discuss palm oil sustainability issues.
