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 ...

By Louise Hunt Across southeastern Liberia, oil palms grow wild in the forest. Known as “country palm,” the Elaeis guineensis ...

In the final piece of an AP series around palm oil abuses,they traced the fruits of the labor to the supply chains of the makers of popular cereals,candies and ice creams,including KitKats,Oreos, ...

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 ...

After a tip about unsustainable logging at a Malaysian state-run oil palm plantation, former Rainforest Investigations ...

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 fell to their lowest in nearly 14 years as refiners turned to cheaper soyoil, driven by ...

It’s an edible vegetable oil that comes from the fruit of oil palm trees, the scientific name is Elaeis guineensis. Two types of oil can be produced; crude palm oil comes from squeezing the fleshy ...

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, ...