When produced irresponsibly, palm oil can have a devastating impact on forests, species, communities and the global climate. Despite many long-standing commitments by brands and industry coalitions to ...

They bypassed the stonewalling of major Western brands that refused to say whether their products contain palm oil by using company data and U.S. Customs records to link the workers’ abuse to the ...

So if palm oil was boycotted and sunflower oil used instead, farming would require five times more land. Ultimately, the issue is about sustainability. There are brands that have pledged to stop ...

Illegal deforestation has reportedly surged to record levels in a wildlife reserve at the northern tip of Indonesia’s Sumatra Island that’s known as the “orangutan capital of the world.” A newly ...

With a huge labor shortage in the palm oil sector, they wondered: Were desperate men being tricked or sold to help harvest fruit that ends up in the supply chains of some of America’s most iconic food ...

On the Indonesian island of Sumatra, palm oil companies have sometimes bulldozed entire ... gleaming new shopping malls feature Western and Asian luxury brands. This past August, Mannan was ...

while 13 seem to have stalled and 6 gone backwards. Whilst the overall direction of the sustainability journey is good for the majority of companies, WWF wants to see all brands taking responsibility ...

Palm oil has found its way into more than half of ... another — and it's something that palm producers around the world have struggled with. Advocates in Guatemala worry about subsistence ...

The drop in inventories in the world's second-largest palm oil producer after Indonesia could support benchmark futures , which have corrected sharply in recent weeks after rising to their highest ...