Palm oil was once touted as a social and environmental panacea — a sustainable food crop, a biofuel that could help to cut greenhouse-gas emissions and a route out of poverty for small-scale farmers. In recent years, however, a growing body of research has questioned those credentials, presenting evidence that palm-oil farming can cause damaging deforestation and reduce biodiversity, and that the oil’s use as a biofuel offers only marginal benefits for mitigating climate change.
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Links:
[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/feature-article/palm-oil-boom-raises-conservation-concerns
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/natasha-gilbert
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/journal/nature
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/palm-oil
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/food-crops
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/biofuel
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/deforestation
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/climate-change
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/climate-mitigation
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/indonesia
[11] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/cambodia
[12] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/malaysia
[13] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/biodiesel
[14] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/carbon-dioxide
[15] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/green-house-gases
