Norway Mulls Palm Oil Ban
Contradiction in terms The speed at which news moves around the world today has opened the floodgates to a flurry of questionable news that deliberately misleads and misinforms. ‘Fake...
Enhancing the Image of Malaysian Palm Oil through Technological and Economic Advantages
Palm oil is one of the most important commodities of Malaysia. The industry acts as an economic backbone for Malaysia. In the era of globalisation, the Malaysian palm oil...
Summation by Patrick Lombard
Patrick Levy was one of the lucky winners of the trip to Malaysia organized by MPOC to address the untruths about palm oil in France. During his time in...
NGOs Got It Wrong: Oil Palm Reduces Deforestation
When the east, mid-west and southern agricultural states of the USA were cleared of their forests for European settlers to build farms, each family was given 5 acres of...
Indirect Land Use Change, Green House Gas Emission and Trade Protectionism
Malaysia made a policy commitment at the Rio Earth Summit in 1992 to keep a minimum of 50% of the country’s land area under permanent forest. Today, it still...
My Response to Irresponsible Allegations About Industry Practices Appeared in The STAR Newspaper
The environmental group Sahabat Alam Malaysia accused the palm oil industry of “genocide” against orang utans. Another group claimed the industry engages in indiscriminate clearing of protected land. And...
Washington Dialogue on Sustainable Palm Oil – NGOs Fail to Sabotage Event
Recently, the Malaysian and Indonesian Ministers in charge of the palm oil industry had a roundtable dialogue with US NGOs, government officials and other food and non-food customers to...
The Case of WENGOs Blindly Pushing for Labelling of Palm Oil
The greatest flaw and danger by Australian Senate in the proposed palm oil labeling Bill is its discriminatory treatment of palm oil. The Bill was proposed based on WENGOs’...
Palm Oil: How Greenies Threaten Jobs and Food Security
The economic contribution of palm oil and other plantation commodities provided the assurance of a remunerative source of income and unlimited employment opportunities throughout the year for the people...
How Sustainable Production of Palm Oil Contibutes to Reduced Global Warming
At a recent forum organized by the Palm Oil Refiners Association of Malaysia (PORAM), it was revealed that there was no moral case for Western Environmental NGOs (WENGOs) campaigns...