ETH News
All stories by PhD student John Garcia-Ulloa, ETH Zurich
Of pastures and oil palm
Zukunftsblog
Using pasture lands to develop oil palm cultivation can create a competitive advantage to producers in South America while sparing natural ecosystems, but it will require improvements in the ranching sector to avoid negative indirect effects.
Oil palm in Africa: an opportunity too good to miss?
Zukunftsblog
After becoming Southeast Asia’s second-largest crop, oil palm is heading to Africa on an industrial scale, and a wave of high-profile investments have raised concerns on the environmental impacts of this expansion. Understanding the opportunities for oil palm in the African context is key to ensuring that oil-palm expansion develops more sustainably.