Producing palm oil sustainably | Cargill Indonesia
Producing palm oil sustainably Since 2004, Cargill has been an active member of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), which promotes the production and use of sustainable palm oil throughout the supply chain, and has made significant progress in implementing the RSPO Principles and Criteria across its businesses.
Cargill Palm Oil Progress Update December 2015 Fires in Indonesia Cargill has a strict zero-burning policy and does not condone burning of land for any means. Since early September, we identified a number of hotspots and fires both in and outside the boundaries of our oil palm plantations in South Sumatra and West Kalimantan, Indonesia.
Cargill Seeking Poultry Play, Building Palm Oil Mills
Cargill Inc. is seeking to enter the Indonesian poultry sector and is investing in mills for its growing palm oil business there, part of plans to pour $1 billion into Southeast Asia’s largest
Oil Palm Teaching Farm with Institut Pertanian Bogor (IPB): In 2012, Cargill announced a collaboration with IPB, one of Indonesia’s leading agriculture institutes, to build Indonesia’s first oil palm teaching farm. It is the first such collaboration between a commercial oil palm grower and an educational institute.
Palm Oil | Cargill
Cargill tropical oils include palm oil, coconut oil, palm kernel oil. Some Cargill products are only approved for use in certain geographies, end uses, and/or at certain usage levels. It is the customer's responsibility to determine, for a particular geography, that (i) the Cargill product, its use and usage levels, (ii) the customer's product
The Wall Street Journal reports that U.S. industrial agriculture giant, Cargill Inc., is seeking to expand its oil palm plantations in Indonesia.The company currently has more than 42,000 hectares of plantations in the country as well as an additional 27,000 hectares worked in partnership with smallholder farmers.
Cargill: Severe deforestation, labour rights violations
Cargill: Severe deforestation, labour rights violations at Indonesian palm oil suppliers Five of the world´s largest palm oil companies , together with Cargill, set up the voluntary Sustainable Palm Oil Manifesto (SPOM) in July 2014 with the aim to “ensuring sustainability in the entire chain from cultivation to consumption” of palm oil 1 .
Overview of Indonesian Oil Palm Smallholder armers A Typology of Organizational Models, Needs, and Investment Opportunities i Indonesian smallholder oil palm farmers own and/or manage at least 3.1 million ha of oil palm, accounting for more than 40% of the total oil palm area and generating an estimated 35% of total crude palm oil production nation wide.
How Cargill is feeding a changing, growing world
A cocoa farmer holds up his harvest. Cargill’s operations in Asia Pacific include cocoa, oil palm, and sugarcane cultivation, among others. For most people, food represents pleasure, comfort, nourishment and economic sustenance. But in recent decades, growing and consuming food have become mired in difficult questions about hunger, climate change, forest loss, and human rights.
Cargill and Bunge, two of the world’s largest agricultural commodity traders, are refusing to cut ties with a leading Malaysian palm oil producer and trader, in spite of allegations that it
Cargill sells palm oil business in Papua New Guinea
Cargill will sell off its palm oil holdings in Papua New Guinea (PNG) to focus on operations in Indonesia, reports the Star Tribune. The $175 million sale involves 62,000 ha of oil palm across
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FOODPACK AFRICA - Contact Us
•Ethiopia To Allow Import Food Items From Foreign Companies • Africa's Agribusiness Sector Is Projected To Reach US$1 Trillion By 2030 • Coca-Cola Launches A Water Bottle (Bonaqua) Made Entirely From Recycled Plastic - Africa • Packaging Centre Has Been Set Up In Dar es Salaam To Benefit The SMEs • Ethiopia Revenue Showed An Increase By USD 95.1 Million In Export Earnings As Compared
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The Land Grabbers - Jacobin
But it has also proven destructive: a 2012 article in Scientific American warns that land-clearing for palm oil significantly contributes to greenhouse gas emissions. And the US Department of Labor considers palm oil one of the world’s worst industries for forced and child labor. A 2024 report by Friends of the Earth calculates that TIAA
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India’s Food Regulator under Probe for Partnering
The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has entered into several partnerships with organisations floated by food companies, sparking off concerns about conflict of interest since these companies are to be regulated by the Authority. On its website, FSSAI lists its partnerships, which include one with an organisation called CHIFFS (CII-Hindustan Unilever Initiative on Food
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THE GMO EMPEROR HAS NO CLOTHES
The GMO Emperor Has No Clothes Citizens around the world can see the false promises and failures of GMOs. And like the child who speaks up, are proclaiming “What the Emperor is telling us is not true. It is an illusion. The GMO Emperor has no clothes”. Joining together to say that “The GMO Emperor has no clothes” empowers citizens to
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EJAtlas | Mapping Environmental Justice
Welcome to Environmental Justice Atlas The EJ Atlas is a teaching, networking and advocacy resource. Strategists, activist organizers, scholars, and teachers will find many uses for the database, as well as citizens wanting to learn more about the often invisible conflicts taking place.
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Commodities Market Data & News | Nasdaq
Get the latest global commodities market data and news from Nasdaq.
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Elaeis guineensis - WikiMili, The Free Encyclopedia
Elaeis guineensis is a species of palm commonly just called oil palm, but also sometimes African oil palm or macaw-fat. It is the principal source of palm oil. It is native to west and southwest Africa, specifically the area between Angola and The Gambia; the species name guineensis refers to the na
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FT Commodities Global Summit 2024 organised by FT Live
Add to my Calendar 03/19/2024 18:30:00 03/21/2024 13:30:00 true FT Commodities Global Summit 2024 Commodities have always been prone to boom and bust. Now, more than a year into a recovery, the foundations for a new cycle are being laid. A lull in investment is already leading to a contraction in supply across many markets, helping to support prices and boost sentiment.
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Stop Vision Loss Now by Bruce Fife - The Weston A. Price
The discussion on the positive effects of red palm oil on eye health was a pleasant surprise. Chapter after chapter, Dr. Fife addresses the problems of ageing eyes, excessive sugar intake, refined carbohydrate consumption, and the harmful effects of drugs, smoking, and excitotoxins such as MSG.
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Bionic Fuel Group is an engineering company that develops and builds synthetic fuel reactors and turnkey production plants. In 2008, it established Bionic Palm Limited (BPL) in Ghana to invest in agricultural production. In Ghana, the company acquired a palm-oil mill and 1,750 ha on a 50-year lease for oil-palm plantations.
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The Farmers’ Crisis – Navdanya international
Suicides are taking place where farmers have become dependent on buying costly seeds and costly chemicals as inputs, they have been forced to give up diversity, to grow a commodity crop which can only be sold to government or traders, or the corporations behind both. Buyers are driving prices down.
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