An Italian think tank has defended the palm oil industry against accusations that it degrades the environment, saying it uses land more efficiently than do industries producing...
As haze blanketed large tracts of Southeast Asia last month, office workers with Genting Plantations Bhd. in Jakarta were investigating the source of the choking smoke more...
KRABI: Members of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) need to further improve transparency on their palm oil production and areas as well as make improvement...
An Indonesian palm oil executive has been arrested for allegedly ordering the killing two activist journalists who were mediating a land dispute between his company and local...
Earlier this month, France’s constitutional court upheld a law cutting palm oil from the country’s list of approved biofuels and eliminating associated tax exemptions. The court rejected...
In September last year the Indonesian government issued a presidential instruction to place a temporary ban on new permits for palm plantations for three years in a...
Two Indonesian journalists who were mediating a land dispute between local residents and palm oil plantation giants were found dead in North Sumatra province last week. After...
In late September, international news outlets caught flak for their coverage of Indonesia’s largest mass protests since the 1998 uprising that led to the fall of the...
Last year, when we published the report High Risk in the Rainforest, it was far from the first time that palm oil company Golden-Agri Resources (GAR) and its...