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...
Zoos Victoria Creating Agricultural Trade War Amongst Friendly Nations
Zoos in various states in Australia recently issued defiant statements defending their position to continue to allow NGOs to use their premises as campaign grounds to link the oil palm industry with orang utan habitat lost. Posters displayed by the NGOs on the cages housing the orang utans at the zoos were found to be...
Biased Studies on Deforestation and Indirect Land Use Effect of Oil Palm
There have been many attempts by the Western Environmental NGO (WENGOs) to undertake studies to demonstrate the impact of deforestation on climate change or biodiversity losses. Often universities are involved to conduct the studies in the hope that the final reports issued will be credible. However, not all these studies will be...
Deforestation Moratorium and Future Shortages of Food Supply Will Require 10 Times More Forest Conversion
The world population of over 6 billion is increasing by 70 to 80 million people annually. Food supply needs to expand to keep up with the additional demand. Land to grow food crops is getting scarce. By 2020, arable land in the world is projected to decrease to less than 1 acre per capita which...
How WENGOs Can Contribute to a Better World?
WENGOs can re-align their campaigns by focusing on what developed countries could do in order to make a more meaningful contribution to their objective of reducing global CO2 emission and not just focus on stifling the growth of agricultural commodities of developing countries such as palm oil which will harm the income potential of...
Sustainability: New Market for Certified Sustainable Oils and Fats?
Confusion reigns over certified and uncertified oils In recent years, the Western Environmental NGOs (WENGOs) together with producers and buyers of palm oil have attempted to promote the development and market for certified sustainable oils and fats products in addition to existing non-certified products. This has resulted in two types of market for oils and...
