Palm oil comes from the oil palm tree, which is native to West Africa. However, most palm oil is currently grown in Indonesia and Malaysia. Environmentalists say the region's forests have paid the ...

The oil palm tree, Elaeis guineensis, is native to West and central Africa, and commercial plantations are now expanding in the region. If a full-scale boom developed, it could encroach on crucial ...

Oil palm trees are native to Africa but were brought to South-East Asia just over 100 years ago as an ornamental tree crop. Now, Indonesia and Malaysia make up over 85% of global supply but there are ...

Derived from the reddish pulp of the oil palm tree, it was used as a cooking oil in many West African countries for centuries ...

There are two oil palm trees that produce palm oil, the African oil palm (from West Africa), and the American oil palm native to Latin America. But due to a growing popularity that's occurred over the ...

It comes from the reddish pulp of the fruit found on oil palms, particularly the African oil palm - known ... chopped down to make way for the oily palm tree plantations. But these forests are ...

Fruits from an oil palm tree. Oil can be created either from the ... of oil palm trees which are originally from Africa, but are now farmed in large plantations mostly across countries in South ...

Iceland is the first supermarket to announce it will stop using palm oil as an ingredient in all its own-brand food - here’s everything you need to know about the environmentally-destructive ...

"Cooking oil is a luxury because the money ... Many, especially men, still do, however. Native to the African continent, the baobab is known as the "tree of life" for its resilience and is found ...

It is extracted from the fruit that grows on oil palms, originally in Africa, and now mostly grown in Malaysia and Indonesia. Now the question is, is palm oil good or bad for the planet?

Moneim reports from Kuala Lumpur During a two-day event starting 9 October the Malaysian Palm Oil Council (MPOC) organised ...