With a huge labor shortage in the palm oil sector, they wondered: Were desperate men being tricked or sold to help harvest fruit that ends up in the supply chains of some of America’s most iconic food ...

Child labor has long been a dark stain on the $65 billion global palm oil industry. Though often denied or minimized as kids simply helping their families on weekends or after school, it has been ...

Human rights abuses such as child labor and forced evictions have been well documented. On the Indonesian island of Sumatra, palm oil companies have sometimes bulldozed entire indigenous villages ...

Meanwhile, labor disruption caused by Covid-19 in Malaysia has hit production and put further pressure on prices. Palm Oil Soars on Export Ban Palm oil prices soared to a record high earlier this ...

India's palm oil imports in January plunged to their lowest level in nearly 14 years as refiners replaced the tropical oil ...

Malaysian palm oils futures closed higher on Wednesday. They were boosted by the stronger Dalian edible oil, and traders were ...

It is feared in major oil palm production areas that the ecosystem is being destroyed by logging, as tropical rainforests are cleared to develop farms. Human rights abuses such as child labor are ...

According to data from Trading Economics, the price of palm oil reached its highest point since mid-2022 late last year. On 11 November, the price reached 5,195 Malaysian ringgit (€1121.76) per tonne, ...

Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto and Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim reached an agreement to address bilateral ...