and taller trees are more difficult to harvest. Photograph by PASCAL MAITRE Indonesia and Malaysia are now the epicenter of palm oil, but the oil palm tree, Elaeis guineensis, is not native to Asia.

Palm oil is environmentally controversial because the trees grow in rainforest regions. Up to half of the deforestation in ...

Now researchers say there is a solution that could mitigate the damage. Setting up forests or “tree islands” in large oil palm farms can help restore biodiversity and ecosystems by aiding the natural ...

Most areas suitable for growing the oil crop are key habitats ... Palm oil comes from the oil palm tree, which is native to West Africa. However, most palm oil is currently grown in Indonesia ...

Oil palm trees are native to Africa but were brought to South-East Asia just over 100 years ago as an ornamental tree crop. Now, Indonesia and Malaysia make up over 85% of global supply but there are ...

But due to a growing popularity that's occurred over the last 50 years, now the tree is raised and harvested in more areas, ...

However, 200 years of planting by colonial interests transformed the palm from the revered “Tree of Life” to a cash crop monoculture grown on Pacific atolls for a singular purpose — production of ...

KUALA LUMPUR/MUMBAI, Dec 13 (Reuters) - Malaysia's palm oil production is set to fall for the fourth consecutive month in December as heavy rainfall hit harvesting in the world's second-largest ...

Palm oil has often been ... Over the past 20 years, growing demand has seen thousands of hectares of old, tropical forests chopped down to make way for the oily palm tree plantations.

KUALA LUMPUR/MUMBAI : Malaysia's palm oil production is set to fall for the fourth consecutive month in December as heavy rainfall hit harvesting in the world's second-largest producer of the ...