News stories by Monica Prestes
Palm Oil for Biodiesel in the Amazon: Sustainable Fuel or Deforestation Risk?
- Inter Press Service
MANAUS, Brazil, Apr 04 (IPS) - Oil palm, known as dendezeiro in Brazil, can produce up to ten times more vegetable oil per hectare than other crops, but it is regularly condemned as harmful to the biodiversity of tropical forests in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Now, its cultivation looks set to advance in the Brazilian Amazon.
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