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Controversial palm oil project halted in Cameroon
2013-05-24 07:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: An American company has halted work on a controversial palm oil project in Cameroon due to opposition from local communities and environmentalists, reports Reuters. Herakles Capital, a U.S.-based investment firm, said it has stopped development of its 73,000-hectare oil palm planation and laid of 690 workers pending a government review of the 2009 deal that granted the land to the firm. The move came weeks after an order from the Forestry Ministry and a day after a joint report from Greenpeace...
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Establishing Nutritional Value in Copra, Palm Products Fed to Pigs
2013-05-16 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
US - Products derived from coconuts and oil palm trees are the primary protein sources in swine diets in parts of Africa, southeast Asia, South America, and Europe. New research from the University of Illinois is helping to establish the nutritional value of these products.
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Palm oil company violated RSPO standards, evicted from sustainability body
2013-05-13 04:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) has evicted Indonesian palm oil giant Dutapalma Nusantara for violating key principles for sustainability. Dutapalma Nusantara, which is also known as Darmex Agro or Duta Palma, was found to have violated three RSPO principles: converting deep peat for a plantation, clearing forest without a high conservation value (HCV) assessment, and using fire to open land. The company repeatedly failed to address the issues, which were raised by the Indonesia...
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Indonesian palm oil giant cutting deforestation from supply chain
2013-05-13 03:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Indonesian palm oil giant Golden Agri-Resources (GAR) is continuing to reduce deforestation under its 2011 forest conservation policy despite ongoing forest destruction by other palm oil producers in the sector, finds a new assessment by Greenomics, an Indonesian activist group. However the report finds GAR's operations are not completely deforestation-free. Using a combination of satellite data and legal documents filed with the Ministry of Forestry, the Greenomics report [PDF] shows that GAR-owned...
Qualcomm Elects Former Palm CEO to Board
2013-05-08 02:35:27| PC Magazine Cell Phones Product Guide
Jon Rubentstein led Palm at the time of its 2010 acquisition by HP and is credited with directing the teams which designed and engineered Apple's original iMac and iPod.
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