Sentences with phrase «palm cultivation»

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.

However, since it is designed primarily to rapidly identify the highest priority areas for further investigation, it should not be used to predetermine where oil palm cultivation expansion should occur.

But this is the really short version in regards to climate change: When you chop down the forests grown on peat and drain the land to depths sufficient for oil palm cultivation, the soil starts oxidizing and releasing massive amounts of CO2.

What I'm specifically thinking of is whether activities with severely negative environmental impact when done at the expense of forested areas — namely agriculture and oil palm cultivation — will be held accountable.

Like any agricultural activity, oil palm cultivation can be done well or badly, but it need not be done badly.

This oil palm cultivation is responsible for the destruction of 30,206 hectares of forest, equivalent to 29 percent of total annual deforestation in the country.

As traditionally practiced in southeast Asia, oil palm cultivation is responsible for widespread deforestation that reduces biodiversity, degrades important ecological services, worsens climate change, and traps workers in inequitable conditions sometimes analogous to slavery.

Peatlands need to be drained in order to be suitable for oil palm cultivation.

And more is to come: The Indonesian government wants to put 10 million hectares of land into oil palm cultivation by 2015, up from the current total of 6 million hectares.

According to the UCS, «Oil palm cultivation in Indonesia accounted for an estimated 2 to 9 percent of all tropical land use emissions from 2000 to 2010.»

It also has importance for seed banking and conservation and may be of relevance to modern date palm cultivation.

So far, research on the environmental impact of oil palm cultivation has been scattered and patchy.

Palm cultivation is linked to deforestation, loss of biodiversity and social conflicts in the producing countries — mainly Indonesia and Malaysia.

This report provides an independent review of available scientific information and published literature on impacts of the use of tropical peat for oil palm cultivation in Southeast Asia.

Not exact matches

Palm Oil Not to be Confused with Processed Palm Kernel Oils (Which is Mass Produced and Whose Cultivation often Results in the Deforestation of the Valuable Rainforest)

RSPO certification promotes the growth and use of sustainable palm oil, helping reduce the negative impact of palm oil cultivation on the environment.

1) Lactobacillus fermentum CECT5716 * from organic production ** organic palm oil from sustainable cultivation, certified by independent inspection bodies.

* organically produced organic palm oil from sustainable cultivation, certified by independent checkpoints

The commissioner said that for oil palm, government had commenced the raising of 220, 000 improved oil palm seedlings for distribution to 250 farmers for cultivation on 500 hectares of Oil palm plantations.

One study found them in the foothills of the Swiss Alps, after a decorative palm escaped cultivation into the mountains; it spread simply because frost is not as prevalent as it used to be.

In 2008 Unilever announced that it will make a shift to using sustainable palm oil, as soon as the first supplies become available.This major initiative is one that will have a significant impact, not just on climate change but also on the sustainability of the rainforest.Unilever's intention is to move to 100 % certified, sustainable palm oil by 2015, and we will also support an immediate moratorium on any further deforestation in Indonesia linked to palm oil cultivation.

Much of the interior is given over to coconut cultivation, though tourists are proving themselves a more lucrative crop and slowly the palm plantations are either making way for places to stay or at least shading bungalows beneath.

Specifically, areas the authors suggest focusing on are restoring formerly forested land, preventing loss of existing forests, improving forestry and livestock management practices, using smarter application of chemical fertilizers and supporting agroforestry, and preventing the draining and conversion of wetlands — most prominently for palm oil cultivation.

The Program for Sustainable Production of Palm Oil, announced today by Brazilian President Lula da Silva, is novel in its approach to protecting standing forests while allowing cultivation in areas that have been deforested in the past, namely for use as short - lived sugarcane plantations or lumber operations.