oil palm

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For instance, 10.8% of Borneo's land area had been converted to oil palm monocrops by 2015.

From Science Daily • Dec. 4, 2024

In Indonesian Borneo, or Kalimantan, oil palm plantations threaten durian diversity by leaving less room for diverse species of durian to be cultivated.

From Salon • Jul. 22, 2024

In the 2010s there was gargantuan oil palm, timber and large-scale plantation expansion across Indonesia.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 28, 2024

But the most devastating losses have come with the conversion of forest to agriculture, including oil palm farms, which yield a substance widely used in packaged foods and other products.

From National Geographic • Jan. 23, 2024

I would prepare soup with the cocoyam leaves and the bright orange palm nuts I’d picked from an oil palm tree the day before.

From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo