Environmentalists might call it karma. An industry that has completely altered the landscape of much of rural Indonesia and ...

Photograph by PASCAL MAITRE Indonesia and Malaysia are now the epicenter of palm oil, but the oil palm tree, Elaeis guineensis, is not native to Asia. It comes from West and central Africa ...

Large trials in Indonesia and Malaysia are showing it is possible to become sustainable without damaging productivity or ...

A man and a woman, aged 26 and 25, were involved in a car accident when their vehicle skidded and caught fire after being overloaded with stolen oil palm bunches. The incident, which occurred in ...

The top two producers of palm oil are Indonesia and Malaysia, generating tens of millions ... tropical forests chopped down to make way for the oily palm tree plantations. But these forests ...

Oil palm trees are native to Africa but were brought to South-East Asia just over 100 years ago as an ornamental tree crop. Now, Indonesia and Malaysia make up over 85% of global supply but there are ...

Palm oil comes from the oil palm tree, which is native to West Africa. However, most palm oil is currently grown in Indonesia and Malaysia. Environmentalists say the region's forests have paid the ...

The oil palm tree produces high-quality oil used primarily for cooking ... Palm oil imports, mostly from Indonesia and Malaysia, constitute around 59% of the total edible oil imports. In domestic ...

Hailing from the oil palm tree, scientifically called Elaeis guineensis ... Much is sourced from small farms around Indonesia, Malaysia, West Africa and many Latin American countries. There's a lot of ...

But a one-acre residence on a quiet country lane in Walnut Creek, 25 miles east of the San Francisco, is home to a thriving palm tree garden valued at more than $1.5 million, according to the ...

Indonesia now supplies over half of the world’s palm oil, with research showing 11,583 square miles of tropical peat swamp forests in Malaysia and ... glide through the tree tops using the ...