Commodity: Palm Oil

Efficient mills introduced in Liberia to boost palm oil extraction

The highly efficient mills is to help increase the oil extraction rate of palm oil in Liberia The mills are…

13 November 2020

Hope for smallholder farmers amid a pandemic

Farmers were provided with food crop seedlings to plant alongside oil palm and cocoa With the spread of the virus…

03 November 2020

Supporting the private sector to contribute to oil palm development in Ghana

Solidaridad is committed to building capacities for the development of oil palm in Ghana In recent years, the oil palm…

27 October 2020

Mobilizing the youth to support aging farmers

Youth, like Joseph Haye are empowered to provide farm management services to farmers through the Commercial Farm Management Service Programme With…

23 October 2020

Improving women’s right to land in traditional communities in Nigeria

Alice Agwu regained control of her late husband's land, where she now cultivates oil palm In Nigeria, almost 80 percent…

14 October 2020

Good farming, good energy

RSPO Members in Guatemala and Honduras adapt sustainable palm oil standards

The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) has issued the Principles and Criteria for Sustainable Palm Oil Production since 2005,…

09 September 2020

Boosting oil palm farming in Sierra Leone — teachers and army officers rise to the challenge

The Sustainable West Africa Palm Oil Programme (SWAPP) seeks to contribute to the transformation of the oil palm sector in…

01 September 2020

Farmers in Liberia record a boom in oil palm yields after training

Smallholder farmers implementing best management practices in oil palm fields in Liberia are recording 50 percent increases in yield following…

07 August 2020

Smallholder oil palm farmers improve their livelihood in Nigeria

Nigeria is the fifth-largest producer of palm oil globally with less than two per cent of total global market production.…

28 July 2020