Senegal palm oil plantation plantation industry lanscape

Market opportunities and entry strategies for palm oil

  • Senegal palm oil plantation plantation industry lanscape
  • Senegal palm oil plantation plantation industry lanscape
  • Senegal palm oil plantation plantation industry lanscape
  • Senegal palm oil plantation plantation industry lanscape

A map of the extent and year of detection of oil palm plantations

‘Tree islands’ give oil-palm plantation a

Oil palm in the 2020s and beyond: challenges and solutions

Oil palm plantation systems are at a crossroads

  • Are oil palm plantations sustainable?
  • Therefore, measuring the environmental impact of oil palm plantations and identifying suitable land to support its sustainable development is crucial. To meet the rising global palm oil demand sustainably, we tracked annual land cover changes in oil palm plantation and mapped areas worldwide suitable for sustainable oil palm cultivation.
  • How do oil palm plantations affect the environment?
  • Oil palm plantations have been associated with multiple negative impacts, including deforestation, habitat and biodiversity loss (Teoh, 2010), forest fragmentation, disruption of food chains, air and water pollution, soil erosion (Szulczyk and Khan, 2018), and hydrological changes due to alteration in precipitation (Obidzinski et al., 2012).
  • How can we meet global palm oil demand sustainably?
  • To meet the rising global palm oil demand sustainably, we tracked annual land cover changes in oil palm plantation and mapped areas worldwide suitable for sustainable oil palm cultivation. From 1982 to 2019, 3.6 Mha of forests were converted to oil palm plantations.
  • Can oil palm plantations save tropical rain forests?
  • Oil palm plantations release large quantities of nitrous oxide (N2O) into the atmosphere linked to nitrogen (N) fertilizer use. An option for oil palm planting, without threatening tropical rain forests, is the rehabilitation of anthropogenic grassland that was created by human clearance of natural forest many centuries ago.

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