Sentences with phrase «oil plantations at»

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To trace the palm oil used in each ingredient, from plantation to processing plant, and to ensure it was kept segregated at every stage, would be a logistical nightmare, prohibitively expensive... well, it's simply not possible right now if manufacturers want to get their cakes mixed and baked and sold in time for Christmas day.

Smallholders at Cargill's oil palm plantation, PT.

Speaking at the Deza (Oil Palm) festival on Saturday, the president lauded the chiefs for releasing 50 - acre land for oil palm plantatiOil Palm) festival on Saturday, the president lauded the chiefs for releasing 50 - acre land for oil palm plantatioil palm plantation.

Satellite imagery shows how palm oil plantations are displacing peatlands — at tremendous cost to the climate

This is obvious in the most egregious example of all: the clearing of tropical rainforest in Malaysia and Indonesia for oil - palm plantations, at least a third of which are used to produce feedstocks for biofuels (the rest goes into processed food, from chocolate to cooking oil, and cosmetics).

«We found that nearly a billion metric tons of above - ground carbon stocks in Peru are at imminent risk for emission into the atmosphere due to land uses such as fossil fuel oil exploration, cattle ranching, oil palm plantations and gold mining,» Asner said.

At first, clones helped to increase oil production on plantations, but in 1977, something strange started to happen.

At the time, Tan Yap Pau was a plant breeder and researcher at United Plantations, a Danish palm - oil company based in MalaysiAt the time, Tan Yap Pau was a plant breeder and researcher at United Plantations, a Danish palm - oil company based in Malaysiat United Plantations, a Danish palm - oil company based in Malaysia.

«Our research shows that habitats surrounding palm oil plantations, although they are affected by agricultural activity, still sustain a number of threatened species,» says Chris Carbone, a senior research fellow at the Zoological Society of London.

For oil palm plantations to be labelled «sustainable, they must include a riparian zone — a buffer of forest land immediately bordering streams — of at least 30 metres.

Besides using fire for land - clearing, oil palm plantation companies — at least in Indonesia, in many cases — will ask for primary [natural] forests rather than secondary forests (or logged forests) for their concessions.

Until companies actually implement their commitments and start making changes on the ground, critically important forests, wildlife, and local communities will remain at risk from expanding oil palm plantations.»

Recent data indicate that at least 20 percent of the burning — and probably more — can be traced to oil palm plantations.

MAGDALENA MEDIO, Colombia — It is a usual hot and humid day at one of the oil palm plantations in Magdalena Medio, Colombia.

«It emerged at the international level, through the combination of, among others: (1) the conservationist interests of big environmental NGOs in the North, (2) the interests of national and sub-national governments in the North seeking low - cost alternatives to supposedly «offset» their continued and excessive emissions of pollutants and greenhouse gases, (3) the interests of national and sub-national governments in the South seeking to obtain financial resources for the «protection» of forests in their countries, (4) the interests of corporations that could profit from market - tradable «offset» credits, including through speculation on secondary (derivatives) markets, which would allow them to continue destroying the forests for the extraction of timber, minerals or oil, the establishment of monoculture plantations, etc., thus expanding their business opportunities, and (5) the interests of consultants and other actors involved in financial capital markets who want to turn «unexploited» forests into a new market for this type of capital, through the commercialization of «environmental services» such as carbon sequestration, among others.»

At a 7 percent tax rate for carbon, the present value of tax revenue for the Indonesian government ranges from $ 476,000 to $ 752,000, whereas the oil palm plantation generates $ 495,000.

However, one disturbing consequence of rising biofuel production is that new oil palm plantations are coming at the expense of tropical forests.

Unlike logged forest, which has the capacity to support at least some orangutans, oil palm plantations are not viable habitats for orangutans.

In a July 29th editorial we argued that in some cases, preserving ecosystems for carbon credits could be more valuable than conversion for oil palm plantations (known as sawit kelapa in Indonesia), providing higher tax revenue for the Indonesian treasury while at the same time offering attractive economic returns for investors.

What this shows is that the majority of oil palm plantations were developed on degraded lands, meaning forests converted to ferns, grasslands and scrubs by drought and recurrent burning, mainly during El Nino years,» Gaveau said in a presentation at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation.

(11/04/2009) Environmentalists and palm oil producers meeting at the annual Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) were locked in an impasse over how to account for emissions from converting forests and peatlands to oil palm plantations, report conference attendeoil producers meeting at the annual Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) were locked in an impasse over how to account for emissions from converting forests and peatlands to oil palm plantations, report conference attendeOil (RSPO) were locked in an impasse over how to account for emissions from converting forests and peatlands to oil palm plantations, report conference attendeoil palm plantations, report conference attendees.

Oil palm plantation expansion at the expense of natural forest in the Malaysian state of Johor.

This week we are focusing on the long term impacts of palm oil production, including the effects of tropical deforestation on climate change, toxic waste pollution from processing plants, and forced labor at palm oil plantations.

Frogs can survive in oil palm plantations, but at the cost of diversity of species — and the impact can radiate out deep into neighboring forest ecosystems, according to a...

In a July 29th editorial we argued that in some cases, preserving ecosystems for carbon credits could be more valuable than conversion for oil palm plantations, providing higher tax revenue for the Indonesian treasury while at the same time offering attractive economic returns for investors.

And despite Agricultural Ministry statements to the contrary, the trees in palm oil plantations won't absorb even a fraction of the emissions the old forest did: Policy Is Short - Sighted and Factually Inaccurate Gatot Irianto, head of the research and development at the Agriculture Ministry said,

Oil palm plantation companies are still eating away at the Leuser Ecosystem, one of Indonesia's last best rainforests, despite a provincial ban on forest clearance to make way for the...

(12/17/2007) Researchers have confirmed that converting peat forests for oil palm plantations results in a large net release of carbon dioxide, indicating industry claims that palm oil helps fight climate change are unfounded, at least when plantations are established in peatlands.

«To our knowledge, our study provides the first evidence of edge effects from oil palm plantations on [frog] diversity in adjacent forest landscapes,» said study co-author Sarah Scriven, a post-doctoral research associate at the University of York in the U.K.