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Zachlod and the wider research team chose to analyze the productivity of palm oil plantations in Malaysia using satellite images from the European Space Agency (ESA), which are freely available ...
A report released by the Liberian and Dutch affiliates of Friends of the Earth says the Maryland Oil Palm Plantation in Liberia ... West Africa. Photo courtesy of Maja Hitij for Mongabay.
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The Rainforest Action Network (RAN) and The Tree Map provided satellite image evidence of the widespread deforestation driven by palm oil plantations in the ... The resulting ...
KUALA LUMPUR: Sime Darby Plantation Bhd will help boost Sarawak's palm oil industry standards in terms of operational efficiency and productivity in a tie up with Sarawak Land Consolidation and ...
Palm oil is found in half the products sold in supermarkets and in biofuels. Around 50 per cent of the world’s supply is grown in Indonesia, mostly on massive plantations. Government land concessions ...
Rainforests within the legally protected wildlife reserve had been cleared to make way for palm oil plantations during ... citing satellite images that it says reveal deforestation in the area.
scientists developed a scenario that replaced palm oil plantations with native forestry. Alongside this, the requirement of commercial space for farming of BSFL was also considered. Also read → How ...
Tania Li receives funding from Canada's Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. She is currently a visiting research fellow at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University.