The palm oil industry is among the most productive vegetable oil producers worldwide, supported in part by the oil palm’s exceptionally high yield (kg/ha/yr) compared with other vegetable oil plants.

For decades, palm oil has quietly sustained thousands of rural households in Tanzania from Kigoma and Kagera in the west to ...

Commercial oil palm cultivation in Colombia began in 1945 when a U.S.-based company established a plantation in the banana zone of the Magdalena department. Following the economic liberalization of ...