Palm Oil Deforestation

In this article, the authors explain the threat to tropical rainforest palm oil cultivation causes. The demand for palm oil, due its many uses, continues to grow, resulting in the expansion of plantations that are a main cause of deforestation. Land expansion also causes habitat loss to critically endangered species, some of which are unique to those particularly areas. The writers offer a possible solution, suggesting profits from oil palm productions be used to finance nature reserves.

There is a great deal of useful information in this publication, including statistics about the countries, Indonesia and Malaysia, and just how much palm oil they produce. The article also describes small plantations as being self-sufficient, and list the benefits of such, information that

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In this article, an unknown author explains the negative results occurring of the implementation of Uganda's Palm Oil Project. The plantations are in a forest-rich area, resulting in deforestation to make room for expansion. Another environmental concern is the use of agro-chemicals to close to the shore line, affecting the local food supply. Exposed also is the violation of human rights laborers are forced to endure. The article addresses the broken promises of the creation of new jobs by explaining that most of those jobs are filled by non residents.
The information in this report will be useful for demonstrating the need to implement Fair Trade and CSR laws into palm oil production, one of my main ideas in how to better palm oil trade. I can use the article to provided an example of how indigenous people are losing their land and/or incurring unpayable debts to companies claiming to make them prosperous through palm oil production. Another way the article can be used is in exposing the environmental factors sometimes overlooked, such as the violation of agreements not to use chemicals near food and water