However, rain forests and peat lands in
palm oil producing countries are under pressure — particularly in Indonesia and Malaysia — and in response, many of the world's largest retailers and food companies have pledged to convert entirely to sustainable palm oil by 2015.
Not exact matches
The two Southeast Asian
countries produce about 85 percent of the world's
palm oil.
Palm oil plantations decimate orangutan populations and threaten other endangered species such as tigers, rhinoceros, and elephants indigenous to Malaysia and Indonesia, the two countries that produce 85 percent of the world's palm
Palm oil plantations decimate orangutan populations and threaten other endangered species such as tigers, rhinoceros, and elephants indigenous to Malaysia and Indonesia, the two
countries that
produce 85 percent of the world's
palm palm oil.
The area under
oil palm cultivation in Indonesia expanded from 673,000 hectares in 1990 to more than 5 million in 2008 and the
country expects to
produce 21 - 23 million tons of
palm oil this year, extending its lead as the world's top producer.
The initiative aims to differentiate Malaysian
palm oil from that produced in other countries, while offering a less stringent alternative to the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil, the sector's leading certification b
palm oil from that produced in other countries, while offering a less stringent alternative to the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil, the sector's leading certification bo
oil from that
produced in other
countries, while offering a less stringent alternative to the Roundtable on Sustainable
Palm Oil, the sector's leading certification b
Palm Oil, the sector's leading certification bo
Oil, the sector's leading certification body.