Palm Oil: Colombia's new drug? | The City Paper Bogotá
The African oil palm originated, as its name implies, in West Africa, but it has since been planted successfully in tropical regions within 20 degrees of the equator – including Colombia. Colombia is not the world’s largest producer of palm oil – that honor goes to Indonesia – but Colombia is the fastest-growing producer of palm oil.
International concerns for Colombia’s palm oil. Earlier this year, Colombia’s palm oil industry and central government expressed concern that the European Parliament’s vote to ban the use of ...
The Oil Palm Industry: A Blight on Afro-Colombia | NACLA
More impressive is the growth in value of Colombian palm oil exports, from $25.7 million in 2002 to $78 million in 2006—a 300% increase. 1 With more than 741,000 acres of planted oil palm, Colombia is today the largest palm producer in the Americas and the fifth-largest in the world. 2 Moreover, African palm cultivation is the fastest-growing ...
Producing 1.6 million tonnes annually, Colombia’s accounts for 2% of global palm oil. This may seem like a drop in the ocean compared to Malaysia and Indonesia’s joint 85%, but that still makes it the fourth biggest palm producing country in the world and the biggest in Latin America.
Spotlight on Colombia: A Different Story of Palm Oil
Spotlight on Colombia: A Different Story of Palm Oil. Palm oil is associated with negative practices such as deforestation and displacement, but this plant and its fruit have other stories of remote lands that have not been told.
#4 Colombia aims to overtake Thailand to become the world’s third largest producer of palm oil. Today, Colombia produces more palm oil than any other country in Latin America, and is the fourth-largest producer globally. Producing 1.6 million tonnes annually, Columbia accounts for 2% of global palm oil production.
Smallholder oil palm producers contributing to peace
Smallholder oil palm producers contributing to peace and sustainability in Colombia. Farmers in Tumaco, Colombia, have been cultivating oil palm since the 1960s. However, the arrival of bud rot disease in 2006 had a devastating impact on oil palm crops as well as the livelihoods of many farmers and their families.
With the production of more than 1.2 million tons of palm oil and palm kernel oil, Colombia is the fourth largest producer of palm oil in the world and the largest producer in America. The palm oil production in the country accounts for about 1.8% of the total worldwide production, and is characterized because a great portion of the
In Colombia, a palm oil boom with roots
The palm oil industry has been a boom to Colombia’s economy, doubling its production over 10 years and employing 100,000 people. But a mounting body of evidence has shown that the industry has ...
Palm Oil is the most environmentally damaging ingredients on the market today. To help you minimise your impact, here is a list of Palm Oil Free Products for everyday life - The ones to take out of your shopping basket, and the ones you should leave in!
How is Colombia's palm oil 'unique and differentiated'?
Producing 1.6 million tonnes annually, Colombia’s accounts for 2% of global palm oil. This may seem like a drop in the ocean compared to Malaysia and Indonesia’s joint 85%, but that still makes it the fourth biggest palm producing country in the world and the biggest in Latin America.
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Which Everyday Products Contain Palm Oil? Pages WWF
You might not cook with it, but you almost certainly eat or use palm oil. Palm oil is the most widely consumed vegetable oil on the planet, found in many packaged products sold in the supermarket. While palm oil is the most efficient source of vegetable oil, its rapid expansion threatens some of the
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How the world got hooked on palm oil News The Guardian
Palm Oil Investigations, which dubs itself “the palm oil watchdog”, lists more than 200 common ingredients in food and home and personal care products containing palm oil, only about 10% of
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How Colombia became Latin America’s palm oil powerhouse
Palm oil producer organization Fedepalma reported a record 1.6 million metric tons of crude palm oil was produced in Colombia in 2024 — a substantial 42 percent increase over the previous year.
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Palm oil deforestation for everyday products
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
Palm oil is an edible vegetable oil derived from the mesocarp (reddish pulp) of the fruit of the oil palms, primarily the African oil palm Elaeis guineensis, and to a lesser extent from the American oil palm Elaeis oleifera and the maripa palm Attalea maripa.. The use of palm oil in food products has attracted the concern of environmental activist groups; the high oil yield of the trees has
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Palm Oil Market Size, Share Industry Analysis Report
Product Insights. Crude palm oil (CPO) emerged as a prominent segment of the palm oil market in 2024 accounting for 58.3% of the total revenue share followed by palm kernel oil (PKO). Increasing consumption in oleo chemicals production of agrochemicals and cleaning products is expected to boost market growth over the forecast period.
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8 things to know about palm oil WWF
Palm oil can be produced more sustainably and things can change. The Roundtable of Sustainable Palm Oil or RSPO was formed in 2004 in response to increasing concerns about the impacts palm oil was having on the environment and on society. The RSPO has a production standard that sets best practices producing and sourcing palm oil, and it has the buy-in of most of the global industry.
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ABOUT PALM OIL PALM OIL INVESTIGATIONS
Indonesia is being deforested faster than any other country in the world, and it has everything to do with one product: palm oil. Large areas of tropical forests and other ecosystems with high conservation values have been cleared to make room for oil palm plantations, essentially killing the biodiversity of the ecosystems that they replace.
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UK palm oil consumption fuels Colombia violence, says
"The UK, despite being one of the largest consumers of Colombia's palm oil products, remains unaware of the devastating impact of cultivation of this crop on the lives of indigenous and Afro
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Sustainable Palm Oil & Ethical Sourcing Information The
Daabon, a 100-year-old family-owned company, has been growing palm and producing organic and sustainable palm oil in Colombia for more than two generations. Its supply chain is completely vertically integrated, which ensures full traceability for responsible brands and products, and supports the land on which it is grown and the people who produce it.
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How to Avoid Products With Palm Oil Green Global
A Few of the Thousands of Products with Palm Oil How to Avoid Products With Palm Oil. So how can we avoid products with Palm Oil altogether? It starts with taking time to study the labels and try to stop buying the aforementioned products. We’re not suggesting you should go cold turkey on ALL your favorite snacks. But if each of us consumed
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Average prices for palm oil worldwide from 2014
This statistic depicts the average annual prices for palm oil from 2014 through 2025*. In 2024, the average price for palm oil stood at 639 nominal U.S. dollars per metric ton.
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What Products Contain Palm Oil Orangutan Alliance
#4 Colombia aims to overtake Thailand to become the world’s third largest producer of palm oil. Today, Colombia produces more palm oil than any other country in Latin America, and is the fourth-largest producer globally. Producing 1.6 million tonnes annually, Columbia accounts for 2% of global palm oil
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Palm Oil Ethical Consumer
An explanation of Iceland's full history with palm oil with updates leading into April 2024 from Ethical Consumer. Supermarket Iceland score a best rating for ‘Palm Oil Policy and Practice’ on our scoring system. We look at why this is and investigate controversies with the continuing presence of palm oil in products stocked by the supermarket.
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Thin Oil Products Family owned company that markets
Thin Oil Products is a leader in handling and exporting palm oil, palm kernel oil, and their fractions out of Latin America. Our TOP priority is the delivery of your products in a competitive, secure and effective manner to satisfy your requirements.
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The European market potential for palm oil alternatives
Suppliers of palm oil alternatives to natural ingredient and/or cosmetic companies should capitalise on this opportunity to persuade them to purchase their ingredients. The reason is that companies can use the environmental credentials of palm oil alternatives as a marketing story to increase the sales of their products.
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Palm oil usage worldwide 2024/2024 Statista
This statistic shows the palm oil consumption worldwide from 2015/2024 to 2024/2024. In 2024/2024, the palm oil usage amounted to over 2.5 million metric tons worldwide.
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Palm Oil WWF
Palm oil is the world’s most traded vegetable oil, widely used as a cooking oil and in the manufacturing of many products, from margarine to lipstick, biscuits to candles, chocolate to laundry detergent, and biofuels. But growing it irresponsibly can devastate forests, wildlife, communities and the global climate.
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Palm oil: Pros and cons Global Ideas DW 19.02.2010
Palm oil can help fight poverty. Alan Oxley from the non-governmental organization World Growth says palm oil is a particularly sustainable and climate-friendly product. It generates nearly ten
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What Products Contain Palm Oil Orangutan Alliance
#4 Colombia aims to overtake Thailand to become the world’s third largest producer of palm oil. Today, Colombia produces more palm oil than any other country in Latin America, and is the fourth-largest producer globally. Producing 1.6 million tonnes annually, Columbia accounts for 2% of global palm oil
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Palm Oil Imports by Country World's Top Exports
Palm oil collage (Pixabay) International purchases of imported palm oil cost an estimated total US$31.5 billion in 2024. Overall, the value of palm oil imports decreased by -10.9% for all importing countries since 2014 when international purchases of palm oil cost $35.3 billion.
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Oil palm tree Britannica
Oil palm, (Elaeis guineensis), African tree in the palm family (Arecaceae), cultivated as a source of oil. The oil palm is grown extensively in its native West and Central Africa, as well as in Malaysia and Indonesia. Palm oil, obtained from the fruits, is used in making soaps, cosmetics, candles,
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The Search for Sustainable Palm Oil Rainforest Alliance
The coalition aims to promote the use of more sustainable palm oil and advocate for leading trading and manufacturing companies to build sustainability principles into their business operations. Until 2024, there was very little engagement in palm oil sustainability among companies in India. Since the launch of our collaborative initiative in
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Palm Oil 1980-2024 Data 2024-2022 Forecast Price
Palm Oil decreased 493 MYR/MT or 17.82% since the beginning of 2024, according to trading on a contract for difference (CFD) that tracks the benchmark market for this commodity. Historically, Palm Oil reached an all time high of 4298 in March of 2008.
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