palm oil

The commodities that go into candy and gum—cocoa, mint and palm oil—are produced by some of the most impoverished people in the world, living in some of the world’s most environmentally vulnerable areas.

A lot of palm oil comes from areas that have been taking down tropical rain forests.

It’s become increasingly clear that in order to effectively tackle societal and environmental issues—such as deforestation associated with palm oil—we need to entirely redesign and transform global business supply chains.

Like many global businesses, we at Mars have been working tirelessly to try to solve the complex issues of deforestation and human rights challenges in the palm oil supply chain over the past decade.

While there’s been some progress by global businesses to stop deforestation in their palm oil supply chains, forest area has continued to decline globally in the last several years.

These villages used to harvest rubber, cacao, palm oil, and coffee beans.

Soon his coffers were overflowing with revenue from rubber, palm oil, and ivory.

Palm oil is so cheap because the trees are extremely productive.

The advent of large-scale palm oil production made it more and more attractive to manufacturers.

The Girl Scouts uses palm oil to make its cookies, as do manufacturers of ice cream, crackers, packaged breads, and margarine.

The finances of the country are being taxed to the utmost to find the extra "palm-oil" which these mercenaries demand.

There was one sort of beads used for the purchase of palm oil, a second for ivory, a third for gold, and a fourth for slaves.

Before they had been in the country another week they were vociferously demanding palm-oil chop from John every day.

To one side was a little dish full o' palm oil, with a lighted wick floatin' in it.

A little o' the palm oil helped, but wi' them things around me I thought sure I was crazy.