As well as being harmful to nature, however, the palm oil industry is often also dangerous for workers on the plantations. Mondiaal FNV is committed to supporting independent trade unions for workers ...

A minister says marketing palm oil plantation workers as 'professional harvesters' could be a way to fill chronic labour shortages His suggestion was widely panned, with many pointing out that ...

Stagnating palm-oil production and a biodiesel push in Indonesia could keep the price of cooking oil high for years.

These little beetles pollinated the plants with no extra work from humans, and, suddenly, palm oil yields boomed. Since, palm oil's popularity has done nothing but rise. Demand spiked again in the ...

The production of palm oil has increased enormously in recent decades. And it has gone hand in hand with land grabbing, deforestation, and massive violations of workers' rights. Mondiaal FNV focuses ...

We’re not likely to cut palm oil consumption radically. The only way forward is to make its production less bad. MalaysiaA worker harvests palm fruit on a plantation in Sarawak, one of two ...

KUALA LUMPUR--After five years of often back-breaking work on a Malaysian palm oil plantation, Bangladeshi national Babul told his employer this month he was ready to call it quits. The plantation ...

Palm oil's share of India's annual edible oil imports is set to drop below soft oils for the first time as its rising premium over soyoil and sunflower oil pushes refiners toward more affordable ...

KUALA LUMPUR: Leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) in palm oil processing can reduce reliance on foreign workers and create opportunities for local talent, according to Plantations and ...

PETALING JAYA: The government is open to considering applications for foreign workers, specifically for the oil palm plantation sector, says home minister Saifuddin Nasution Ismail. He said ...