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The environmental impacts of palm oil

  • Botswana palm oil production palm oil production
  • Botswana palm oil production palm oil production
  • Botswana palm oil production palm oil production
  • Botswana palm oil production palm oil production

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  • 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.
  • How does palm oil trade affect human wellbeing?
  • Palm oil trade has both positive and negative impacts on human wellbeing. Palm oil trade improves livelihoods of local communities by improving their incomes. Negative social impacts of palm oil trade are overwhelming and ongoing. Both smallholders and agro-industries contribute to positive and negative impacts.
  • How has palm oil production changed since the 1960s?
  • Palm oil production has increased rapidly since the 1960s. Between 1970 and 2020, the world’s production of palm oil increased by about 40 times. Global production went from only 2 million tonnes to around 80 million tonnes. The change in global production is shown in the chart.3
  • What impact does oil palm cultivation have on Africa?
  • The impacts of oil palm cultivation have been studied extensively in Southeast Asia and – to a lesser extent – in Latin America but, in comparison, very little is known about its impacts in Africa: oil palm's native range, and where cultivation is expanding rapidly.

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