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-Palm oil is found in almost every product that is produced

-Palm oil is mainly used in food products, detergents, etc

-The production of palm oil increases more and more everyday

-Palm oil is unhealthy because it is very high in saturated fats

-Palm oil has many benefits to it as well as it being unhealthy it reduces health problems such as brain disease, cancer, vitamin A deficiency, etc.

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What is Palm Oil? Facts About the Palm Oil Industry

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As palm oil plantations spread rapidly, deforestation impacts wildlife habitats and human communities. The sustainable production and harvesting of palm oil is imperative.

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-  Since the start of covid 19, prices for palm oil have gone way up.
-  The prices are due to the pandemic, weather that is non-beneficial, high shipping costs, lack of shipping containers, and lack of truck drivers.
-  Palm oil is ranked the third highest reason for forest lost related to the agriculture system.
-  The European Union Legislation does not allow palm oil to be used as a source of biofuel.
-  The European Union Legislation also has rules set that say that any and all imported palm oil must be deforestation free.
-  James Fry from the LMC international predicts that palm oil won’t be as valued or as highly consumed in a few years compared to where it is now.
-  He says that soy is coming right of behind.
-  Soy also involves environmental impacts like deforestation, just like palm oil.

https://news.mongabay.com/2022/02/have-we-reached-peak-palm-oil-commentary/

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https://www.foodingredientsfirst.com/news/people-for-palm-oil-unilever-leverages-crowdsourcing-to-boost-supply-chain-transparency.html
-FMCG giant is building a new perspective on how palm oil is produced. Due to the way people feel about deforestation the company is inviting people to see the authentic and transparent version of what goes into making palm oil. The reason for this is to build customer relationships and make sure people are willing to buy palm oil.

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16 Feb 2022 --- With deforestation being critically linked to unsustainable practices across palm oil production, Unilever is leveraging smartphone-enabled crowdsourcing to broaden its oversight of this hot commodity's supply chain in Indonesia.

The FMCG giant is recruiting mill workers and suppliers to provide photos and information about collection points and ramps - collection points where fresh palm fruit from different smallholder oil palm producers are collected, purchased and subsequently sold to the mills - via the digital crowdsourcing platform Premise.

Contributors are taught, through Premise's platform, how to collect insights in a way that respects people and property laws in line with Indonesia's regulations.
To ensure a deforestation-free supply chain, ingredients must be traceable all the way back to where they are grown.
"World's first case" of large-scale crowdsourcing for commodities
In Aceh province in Sumatra, Indonesia, where Unilever ran the pilot of its initiative, the company was able to identify and document more than 5,000 collection points in a single region.

"Individuals, either as consumers or part of an organization, can often feel helpless in the face of challenges like deforestation or climate change. Our partnership with Premise is changing that by inviting people on the ground to help us follow the journey raw materials take in the first mile of the supply chain," says Andrew Wilcox, senior manager of sustainable sourcing and digital programs at Unilever.

"We believe our pilot in Aceh is the world's first case of large-scale crowdsourcing technology being applied to commodity sourcing. Technology is a powerful enabler of supply chain traceability and transparency," he continues.

"Crowdsourcing and partnerships are critical to building the capabilities Unilever, and the world, urgently needs to tackle deforestation."

" Transparency Triumphs" was crowned the Top Trend of 2021 by Innova Market Insights, and is sustained this year in 2022's Top Trend, " Shared Planet."

"With consumers increasingly demanding to know where the products they purchase came from and the prospect of potential bans on commodities linked to deforestation, we're not only safeguarding the environment by making sure our supply chains are sustainable, we're also future-proofing our business," stresses Wilcox.

Traceability for the critical first mile
To ensure a deforestation-free supply chain, ingredients must be traceable all the way back to where they are grown.

For a product like palm oil, the first mile from the plantation where palm oil crops are harvested to the point where they are processed is often where the most visibility is required.

But tracing what goes on in that critical first mile is not always straightforward, Unilever concedes.

Conventionally, companies draw a 50 km radius around the mills in their supply chain and assume that the farms or plantations in those areas are likely to be supplying the mills.

Palm oil fresh fruit bunches need to be processed within 24 hours of harvesting, so it was widely accepted that mills would therefore source from nearby farms.

However, given the complexity of palm oil supply chains, Unilever stresses it is necessary to improve the monitoring of these areas so that it can verify that its sourcing is not linked to deforestation.

"We know that, while some produce will go straight from farm to mill, sometimes the oil palm fruit is traded through a middleman, with fresh fruit bunches being dropped off and picked up at informal collection points," the company details.

"These collection points can be far away from where the fruit was grown, making it harder to determine whether the fruit was produced sustainably or not without concrete data," it underlines.

"But now, working with our partner Premise, we are creating a community of local people in Indonesia who will help us track the palm from point of origin to processing."

Putting the power in people's hands
Premise runs the sourced material through its AI-powered quality control system to verify the credibility of the photos and to ensure collection points are not being double counted.

The company details that this helps it build a better picture of previously undocumented parts of the palm supply chain operating in the area.

"We can integrate this with the rest of our sourcing information, joining the dots for a fuller picture of our supply chain and enabling us to take more targeted action to improve it - whether that's rolling out more support for smallholder farmers or starting new conversations with our suppliers," Unilever concludes.
Edited by Benjamin Ferrer
To contact our editorial team please email us at editorial@cnsmedia.com

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People for palm oil: Unilever leverages crowdsourcing to boost supply chain transparency

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16 Feb 2022 --- With deforestation being critically linked to unsustainable practices across palm oil production, Unilever is leveraging smartphone-enabled crowdsourcing to broaden its oversight of this hot commodity's supply chain in Indonesia.

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Palm oil has began to hurt Sumatran orangutan’s habitats because there habitats are being cleared out and destroyed in order to install palm oil plantations. Nowadays palm oil is appearing in so many different products like Famous Amos cookies, hot pockets, Nutella and much more.

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One of the Sumatran orangutan's richest habitats, an area of swampland containing the highest density of the red apes on the planet, is being illegally slashed and burned by palm oil companies to make way for palm oil plantations.
Demand for palm oil, used in packaged food products, leaves orangutans at risk
Many packaged food products contain palm oil. This is NOT an exhaustive list but is intended to give an idea of the range of products that contain palm oil.

- Orville Redenbacher's Microwave Movie Theatre Butter Popcorn

- Famous Amos Chocolate Chip Cookies

- Hot Pockets Pepperoni Pizza

- Nutella Hazelnut Spread

- Balance Bars (flavors including Caramel Nut Blast and Chocolate Peanut Butter)

- Hershey's Mr. Goodbar

- Kellogg's Eggo waffles

- Oreo Cookies

- Starburst

- Twix Cookie Bars

- Carr's Table Water Crackers

- Kraft Cool Whip

- Milano cookies

- Breyer's Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Ice Cream

- Pam Cooking Spray for Baking

- Hunt's Chocolate Pudding Snack pack

- Frosted Strawberry Pop-Tarts

- Milky Way

- Kellogg's Rice Krispies Treats

- Boboli Original Pizza Crust

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One of the Sumatran orangutan's richest habitats, an area of swampland containing the highest density of the red apes on the planet, is being illegally slashed and burned by palm oil companies to make way for palm oil plantations. Demand for palm oil, used in packaged food products, leaves orangutans at risk Many packaged food products contain palm oil.

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Altin Nikezi- Palm oil-deforestation for everyday products:

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Altin Nikezi- Palm oil-deforestation for everyday products:

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1. Plan oil is everywhere in our foods, cosmetics, cleaning products and fuels.

2. At 66 million tons annually, palm oil is the most commonly produced vegetable oil.

4. Since 2009, the mandatory blending of biofuels into motor vehicle fuels has been a major cause of deforestation.

5. The warm, humid climate of the tropics offers perfect growth conditions for oil palms.

6. As consumers, we are largely unaware of these broader issues, yet our daily palm oil consumption also impacts our health.

7. Only 70,000 orangutans still roam the forests of Southeast Asia, yet the EU’s biofuels policy is pushing them to the brink of extinction.

8. A march of villagers protesting the palm oil company PHC ended with arrests and horrific violence – villagers were arrested and abused so badly that one man died of his injuries and another remains in critical condition.

Source: https://www.rainforest-rescue.org/topics/palm-oil

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Palm oil is literally everywhere - in our foods, cosmetics, cleaning products and fuels. It's a source of huge profits for multinational corporations, while at the same time destroying the livelihoods of smallholders. Displacement of indigenous peoples, deforestation and loss of biodiversity are all consequences of our palm oil consumption. How could it come to this? And what can we do in everyday life to protect people and nature?

5-minute info - palm oil

The issue - rainforest on our dinner tables and in our fuel tanks

The impact - suffering and death in producer countries, climate havoc

The solution - a revolution on our dinner tables and in our fuel tanks

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Palm oil - deforestation for everyday products

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Palm oil is literally everywhere - in our foods, cosmetics, cleaning products and fuels. It's a source of huge profits for multinational corporations, while at the same time destroying the livelihoods of smallholders. Displacement of indigenous peoples, deforestation and loss of biodiversity are all consequences of our palm oil consumption.

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Palm oil is destroying rainforests. But try going a day without it. 

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Palm oil is destroying rainforests. But try going a day without it. 

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https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/
- It is the world's most popular edible oil, and makes up a third of all vegetable oil consumed across the planet.
- Palm is usually not labeled since it is an ingredient in other ingredients.
- Palm oil is found in many personal care items.
- It is also found in a variety of food products.
- Most whole foods, or foods with a very short list of ingredients do not contain palm oil because palm oil is found in processed foods.
- Even though palm oil is responsible for about 2.3% of gloal deforestation, replacing it with another vegetable oil would cause even more deforestation than palm oil.
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- Indonesia and Malaysia produce 85% of world palm oil supply and 42 other countries produce palm oil.
- Around 50% of packaged products have palm oil in it. Used as an animal feed and biofuel in many parts of the world.
- Palm oil is very versatile by it being a semi solid at room temperature with that helping the spread of products it’s in, it doesn’t oxidize meaning the products it’s in its gives longer shelf lives, its odorless and colorless meaning if it’s not used in cooking it does change the odor or color of the food.
-It’s a very efficient crop giving large quantities or harvest and use small amount of land.
- Palm oil has and still is a major driver of deforestation. The burning of the forests releases greenhouse gases. Exploitation of workers and child labor.
- Roundtable on sustainable palm oil formed in 2004 was made to set a production standard that sets the best practices producing and sourcing palm oil. They set polices to stop deforestation, conversion of other natural ecosystems, human right violations, certified palm oil, being transparent about were its from and how it’s produced.
- Palm oil is a very efficient crop producing more oil per land the other vegetable oil crop. 40% vegetable oil supply is palm and 6% of the land used is palm.
- Boycotting would mean other areas would get destroyed for other plants to create oil and smallholder farmers who depend on producing palm oil lose their livelihoods.
- RSPO palm oil can be very sure that deforestation, conversion of other natural habitats, and exploitation of people  weren’t involved in the creation of.
- In 2012 UK government made commitment to all the palm oil they use to be from sustainable sources the problem was that they got to 70% but the rest of the unsustainable sources were in stuff like animal feed for example because of this stronger transparency overall is needed.
https://www.wwf.org.uk/updates/8-things-know-about-palm-oil

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The RSPO is the global standard for the sustainable production of palm oil. When palm oil is produced in adherence to RSPO standards, growers help to protect the environment and the local communities who depend on the crop for their livelihoods, so that palm oil can continue to play a key role in food security, economic development, and food supply chains. We should continue to use RSPO certified sustainable palm oil in products, as replacing it would result in more deforestation and natural habitat conversion. RSPO certified products that use palm oil from 'Segregated' or 'Identity Preserved' supply chains offer the greatest assurance of sustainable palm oil.

Along with other organisations, WWF plays an active role in influencing and shaping the RSPO standard to make sure it puts in place more safeguards for people and the planet. In November 2018, the RSPO standard was strengthened and it now represents an essential tool that can help companies achieve their commitments to palm oil that is free of deforestation, conversion of other natural habitats like peatlands, and the exploitation of people.

8. What is being done in the UK?

In 2012, the UK Government recognised that we were part of the palm oil problem and could also be part of the solution. They set a commitment for 100% of the palm oil used in the UK to be from sustainable sources that don't harm nature or people. In 2019, 70% of the total palm oil imports to the UK were sustainable. This is great progress but there is more to be done to get to 100%.

An area that represents a substantial gap in the uptake of certified sustainable palm the use of palm-derived ingredients in animal feed - for chickens, pigs and cows, for example. Much of this palm oil material is unlikely to be certified. This area requires much stronger transparency and ambition from the UK industry, and is going to be critical over the coming years if we are to truly tackle the UK's palm oil footprint.

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Palm oil is one of the most efficient and widely used vegetable oils that comes from the fruit of oil palm trees. We've broken down they key facts.

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India cuts tax on palm oil imports to help consumers, refiners- Arnav A.

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India cuts tax on palm oil imports to help consumers, refiners- Arnav A.

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https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2022/2/14/india-cuts-tax-on-palm-oil-imports-to-help-consumers-refiners

India cut its tax on crude palm oil imports from 7.5% to 5% to help domestic refiners and consumers

India is the world’s biggest edible oil importer

The reduction in the tax will widen the gap between the crude palm oil and refined palm oil import duties

This makes it cheaper for Indian refiners to import crude palm oil

The import tax difference between crude palm oil and refined palm oil would widen to 8.25%

This will help refiners, but a difference of 11% is needed to encourage local refining

A reduction on edible oils will last until September 30

The tax reduction expired on March 31

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Boycott or reform? - Russell Boguslavsky & Sana Arsalan 

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Boycott or reform? - Russell Boguslavsky & Sana Arsalan 

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Palm oil is extremely cheap because of exploited workers and cheap lands

Plantations often recruited undocumented migrant workers form countries like Indonesia, Nepal. Myanmar, Bangladesh, and the Philippines

Because of how inexpensive palm oil was, manufacturers found many different uses for it such as replacing chemicals in soaps and cosmetics, and also become a biodiesel feedstock in Asia

There are enough oil palm plantations worldwide to cover an area larger than Kansas

The dangerous conditions and abusing labor practices are spreading from Southeast Asia to Africa and Latin America

Because palm plantations require deforestation, about 200 at risk species are threatened, this has received more press

Despite this, the IUCN says that shifting away from palm oil could cause more problems (more deforestation, extra exploitation of workers, etc.)

There are more sustainable ways to make palm oil, but they will only be implemented if enough consumers care.

https://theconversation.com/how-palm-oil-became-the-worlds-most-hated-most-used-fat-source-161165

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https://news.mongabay.com/2022/02/have-we-reached-peak-palm-oil-commentary/

-The prices of palm oil have sky rocketed during the pandemic.

-The prices are seen as temporary but industry player don’t want to make any severe moves before a few things play out.

-The pandemic has caused supply shortages, pressure for pricing, high shipping costs, and labor shortages.

-wether disasters are unavoidable, but are inked to climes change, have cause heat and drought affecting soy in south.

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Have we reached peak palm oil? (commentary)

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The price of palm oil has doubled since the early weeks of the pandemic. In May 2020, the price of palm oil contracts sold on the Bursa Malaysia, the main trading market, was below $600 a metric ton; it is now more than $1,200. Even a decade ago, a price hike on this scale would [...]

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Palm oil land grabs ‘trashing’ environment and displacing people - Christian Buenaventura 

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Palm oil land grabs ‘trashing’ environment and displacing people - Christian Buenaventura 

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-Palm oil and cobalt were extreme risks for land grabs according to an analysis of 170 commodities by research firm Verisk Maplecroft
-Chandrasekaran said the increasing production of commodities was driven not by demand but by companies’ desire to lower prices, as well as trade agreements, such as the EU’s proposed deal to import beef from South America.
-Land Matrix, which monitors land deals globally, said in a September report that an increase in land acquisitions starting in 2008 had peaked, but there was potential for a new land rush as economies try to recover from the Covid pandemic, with countries like India and Indonesia opening up their land markets.
-Campaign group Focus on the Global South published a letter signed by 257 organisations last Tuesday rejecting carbon-offsetting pledges from corporations and warning that initiatives such as tree planting will displace indigenous populations while land is still exploited for industrial agriculture.
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/nov/15/palm-oil-land-grabs-trashing-environment-and-displacing-people

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The Social and Environmental impact of palm oil- Sanya Shah and Anjali Pyeddu  

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The Social and Environmental impact of palm oil- Sanya Shah and Anjali Pyeddu  

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Social impacts
- brings many different communities out of poverty
- a lot of illegal land grab
- many arguments over power over land
- loss of income depending os prosperity of plantations
- impact social welfare

Environmental Impacts
- palm oil collection has destroyed many different enviorenment
- main different species are going extinct
- release of carbon in atmosphere is amusing global warMing to speed up

https://greenpalm.org/about-palm-oil/social-and-environmental-impact-of-palm-oil

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Anagha Kotha - Palm Oil - Pros & Cons of it today 

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Anagha Kotha - Palm Oil - Pros & Cons of it today 

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Palm oil is good because
- great for the economy of the country
- cheap
- healthy
- natural oil
- in many products
- substitutions for many expensive items
But palm oil is bad because
- bad for environment
- hurts ecosystems
- harmful for animal regular environment
- deforestation
- ultimately leads to global warming

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwjv3rasoH2AhXkjYkEHZSdCukQFnoECAoQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eco-business.com%2Fnews%2Fpalm-oil-the-pros-and-cons-of-a-controversial-commodity%2F&usg=AOvVaw3NbXIdZm_YwZs_-UDlkT

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Francesca Appice, Katerina Vogel, And Charlotte Taylor

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Francesca Appice, Katerina Vogel, And Charlotte Taylor

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https://www.ft.com/content/d7dc168d-c9ff-42a8-88e6-319e40a179cf

- President of Nigeria attempts to cut the countries food import bill
- Nigeria is the worlds leading palm oil producer
- Sales provide half of all government revenues and foreign exchange earnings
- Government bans foreign exchange of palm oil
- Crude palm oil from importers
- Palm oil production grew in 2020-2021 (1.26mn tones)
- Nigeria imported 34 per cent of palm oil
- Supply failed to meet demand
- Authorities want more palm production
- Production worldwide increased to 28.7mn in 2020
- Producers sign up for certification (Sustainable Palm Oil)