Tag: Soy

Facing public pressure, palm oil firms are going green: study

Of the seven commodities sectors driving deforestation, palm oil companies are doing the most to...

EU-Asian Partnerships are necessary to prevent the next pandemic

COVID-19 has demonstrated the vulnerability of global supply chains and revealed the ever-increasing ecological dangers...

Greenpeace slams certification schemes, inciting criticism: ‘The NGO is using palm oil as cannon-fodder to sway EU lawmakers

The environmental NGO says many certification schemes – covering palm, soy, and timber – enable...

China’s market influence can make or break green supply chains

China’s influence on many commodity markets is without parallel because of its size. As a nation it...

EU-Mercosur free trade pact’s double standards

In the last decade, an area larger than Germany was lost to deforestation and the EU is partly...

Beef poses high deforestation risk thanks to ‘extremely poor’ efforts to trace supply chains, report finds

Study of world’s largest commodity companies finds almost no visibility about where cattle are bred...

No such thing as sustainable palm oil”? What nonsense

Last week an Italian scientist, Roberto Gatti, made headlines in Malaysia when he proclaimed that there is...

Palm oil: not the evil we think it is

Oil palm is a globally important crop, but our hatred of it stops us from...