NGOs Got It Wrong: Oil Palm Reduces Deforestation
When the east, mid-west and southern agricultural states of the USA were cleared of their forests for European settlers to build farms, each family was given 5 acres of forested land to convert into farmland. Within a few decades of land grab rush, the forests were gone. A law was even passed to send Native...
The Green in Palm
In this first instalment of a series of monthly articles, we question the rationale of double-counting green house gas emissions by the US Environmental Protection Agency. MALAYSIA made a policy commitment at the Rio Earth Summit in 1992 to keep a minimum of 50% of the country’s land area under permanent forest. Today, it still...
Indirect Land Use Change, Green House Gas Emission and Trade Protectionism
Malaysia made a policy commitment at the Rio Earth Summit in 1992 to keep a minimum of 50% of the country’s land area under permanent forest. Today, it still has 55% of its land under forest. Forests act as a carbon sink and remove carbon emissions generated by economic activities and other sources in the...
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.
Palm Oil: How Greenies Threaten Jobs and Food Security
The economic contribution of palm oil and other plantation commodities provided the assurance of a remunerative source of income and unlimited employment opportunities throughout the year for the people of Malaysia. A day’s work of harvesting oil palm fruits or tapping rubber trees for latex can provide a person with an income of more than...
How Sustainable Production of Palm Oil Contibutes to Reduced Global Warming
At a recent forum organized by the Palm Oil Refiners Association of Malaysia (PORAM), it was revealed that there was no moral case for Western Environmental NGOs (WENGOs) campaigns against palm oil. Data indicates that the agricultural land occupied by the world palm oil industry is miniscule as compared to the total land allocated to...
