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It's refreshing to see an article actually pointing biofuels policy being the dominant driver of palm oil related deforestation. If I remember right another pr
by kokey 7y ago
It's refreshing to see an article actually pointing biofuels policy being the dominant driver of palm oil related deforestation. If I remember right another problem is that India was expected to become a big palm oil producer where they are historically one of the biggest palm oil importers. This unfortunately didn't happen, somehow the upfront cost and time to production was something that was somehow difficult in India where Malaysia and Indonesia could do this. Something else I'm curious about is what effects we will see from the recent change in policy in Europe, which is busy increasing the local production of canola/rapeseed crops significantly and I suspect that will have some unintended consequences.