Author: Palm Oil Monitor

A Major New Review of Palm Oil from GermanyA major new review by a group of tropical biologists and agricultural specialists has given considerable support to the social, economic and environmental outcomes from oil palm cultivation.The review mostly from authors… Read more Read More

Following a recent Palm Oil Monitor (POM) critique of the WHO’s misleading and inaccurate nutritional advice about palm oil during the height of the COVID-19 crisis, and strong formal protests from both Indonesia and the Council of Palm Oil Producing… Read more Read More

Palm Oil Monitor co-host and esteemed agronomist in the Palm Oil field, Pierre Bois d’Enghien, writes in Contrepoints that it is “more and more obvious that European Union officials and Members of the European Parliament, in particular, are content to… Read more Read More

Huile de palme : quand l’Union européenne renonce à la rigueur scientifique February 13, 2020 By Pierre Bois d’Enghien As an agricultural engineer with more than 20 years of experience working in and around oil palm plantations in Africa and… Read more Read More

Europe Moves to Squeeze Indonesian Palm Oil There’s a significant feeling of anger growing across Indonesia – not just in Jakarta – towards the European Union. The CVD action specifically targeting Indonesian biofuels has sharpened this mood in Indonesia, and… Read more Read More

Indonesia calls Greenpeace-CNN report ‘absurd’ Indonesia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Mahendra Siregar has taken a broadside at both CNN and Greenpeace, for a particularly un-constructive look at palm oil, deforestation and fires in East Malaysia and Kalimantan. Palm Oil Monitor issued… Read more Read More

People who don’t know anything about palm oil really shouldn’t be writing “gotcha” articles about palm oil. The latest in that genre – from none other than CNN – is replete with errors of fact, data, and assumption. It’s more… Read more Read More