traditional crude palm oil plant in Durban

The socioecological benefits and consequences of oil palm

  • traditional crude palm oil plant in Durban
  • traditional crude palm oil plant in Durban
  • traditional crude palm oil plant in Durban
  • traditional crude palm oil plant in Durban

Oil palm production in West and Central Africa

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

Wilmar launches Phase 1 of US$68M edible oils

Small-Scale Palm Oil Processing in West and Central

  • Are oil palms native to West Africa?
  • The African oil palm, Elaeis guineensis, is native to West Africa and in terms of agriculture, it is perhaps the world’s most important palm species. Oil palm fruits are available year-round and have served as semi-wild food resources in traditional societies for > 7000 years.
  • How important is oil palm cultivation in Africa?
  • Oil palm is a globally important crop but cultivation in Africa is understudied. We use systematic mapping and a new programme—the SOPWA Project—to fill this gap. Our mapping reveals no studies on the whole-ecosystem impacts of African oil palm cultivation.
  • Why is Africa struggling to meet its own palm oil products market?
  • Africa struggling to meet its own palm oil products market, Africa’ s oil palm sector predominately targets domestic food consumption. In the in food form is even much higher than the current production. Hence, most of these countries products.
  • How much oil does oil palm produce a year?
  • Oil palm crops globally produce an annual 81 million tonnes (Mt) of oil from about 19 million hectares (Mha). In contrast, the second and third largest vegetable oil crops, soybean and rapeseed, yield a combined 84 Mt oil but occupy over 163 Mha of increasingly scarce arable land. The oil palm crop system faces many challenges in the 2020s.

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