Sentences with phrase «palm oil producing countries»

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.

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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.

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