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Kellogg hit on palm oil sourcing
2013-08-02 20:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Kellogg Co. CEO John Bryant was criticized by an environmental activist over the food giant's palm oil sourcing policy during the company's conference call yesterday, reports Bloomberg. Lucia von Reusner of Green Century Capital Management Inc., a company that offers "environmentally responsible" mutual funds, asked Bryant how Kellogg could ensure it wasn't associated with destruction of rainforests for palm oil production. As a company publicly committed to sustainability, how will Kellogg...
Malaysian NGOs form alliance to address palm oil concerns
2013-08-01 01:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Seven Malaysia-based NGO's have banded together to form an alliance to provide a Malaysian civil society perspective on social and environmental issues related to palm oil production. The initiative aims in part to counter Malaysian industry claims that concerns over palm oil are purely driven by Western NGO's. The alliance, called the Malaysian Palm Oil NGO Coalition (MPONGOC), currently includes the Borneo Rhino Alliance (BORA), Bornean Sun Bear Conservation Centre (BSBCC), Indigenous Peoples...
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Mapping of Oil Palm Genome Could Boost Productivity of Key Crop, Study Says
2013-07-25 18:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: Scientists say they have identified the gene responsible for the yield of oil palm crops, a discovery that could boost the productivity of the worlds top source of vegetable oil and help reduce the size of oil palm plantations in the worlds tropical regions. Writing in the journal Nature, Malaysian and U.S. researchers describe the mapping of the genome of the oil palm, whose products are used in everything from food to cosmetics to biofuels. According to the scientists, the so-called shell gene...
Full genome map of oil palm indicates a way to raise yields and protect rainforest; single gene controls oil palm yield
2013-07-25 11:30:14| Green Car Congress
Sifca to strengthen palm oil operations in West Africa
2013-07-25 01:00:00| Food Processing Technology
Ivory Coast palm-oil refinery Sifca has announced plans to invest $417m over the next five years in plantations and factories in Ghana, Nigeria and Liberia.
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