Documentary on Sustainability of Malaysian Palm Oil Industry

Shows how oil palm plantation efficient management and particular details to environment sustainability has proven the NGOs wrong. Also shown are UP's effort and concern on improving the living standards of the people as explained by Dato' Bek-Nielsen

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Nonprofits & Activism

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• sustainable
• sustainability
• palm
• oil
• environment
• industry
• practice
• Malaysian

[ldruide]

Typical greenwash . Pure propaganda! Totally wrong information . Destroying the richest biodiversity Boycott oil palm products and biofuels

[malaysianpalmoil]

@ldruide we have more land under forests than those countries who cry foul on palm oil industries. we too, have undeveloped lands gazetted for agriculture, and also enough lands for wildlife conservations. in fact the 50% forest reserves agreed at the Rio summit is still being honored and will always be. we have a rich biodiversity and for whom are we keeping this for? european kids who might not see live animals? why dont these countries re-forest and restore the long gone biodiversity?

[ldruide]

On paper, Malaysia has probably one of the best rainforest protection policies in developing Asia, but in practice logging still carries on as it always has. The majority of Malaysia's remaining forests are managed for timber production, and each state is empowered to formulate forest policy independently. These past two decades, sustainable forest management has been non-existent.Peninsular Malaysia's primary forests are mostly gone, though some magnificent forest still exists in Taman Negara

[malaysianpalmoil]

@Idruide, while you conjure facts and numbers as opposed to the UN's report, Malaysia is recognized to have one of the best rainforest protection policies. deforestation through timber industries is known but we have sustainable timber practice and logging areas are identified. seems you have problems with timber industry, why attack palm plantations where we have planted the logged over lands with palm oil which is a better economical and environmental alternative. barking the wrong tree?

[karnavinash]

Monoculture hurts each one of us.. Its not only about the absorbing of green house gases by the palm trees... but the question is about the biodiversity of flora and fauna living in those tropical forests.... whom, we all are interdependent upon each other.

[ldruide]

Oil palm plantations have destroyed our source of livelihood and made us much poorer" said a spokesman for the Penan. "A lot of people are hungry every day because our forest has been destroyed."The Penan, with the help of Survival International, an NGO that works to protect the rights of tribal peoples, have been fighting to prevent the forests they rely on for food from being cut down to make way for palm oil plantations

[ldruide]

It is without any doubt that the growth of the oil palm sub-sector has resulted into economic benefits, especially for the key players. However, it comes with serious social and environmental costs which adversely impact on indigenous peoples, forest-dwellers and the tropical rainforests. Out of the 216 million people in Indonesia it is estimated that 100 million, depend mainly on forests Large areas of forest lands traditionally used by indigenous peoples have already been expropriated.

[ldruide]

Clearly, the main reason for the dramatic expansion of oil palm plantations, notwithstanding their adverse impacts on people and the environment, is that these provide big profits to domestic and international plantation owners and investors. These mega-profits are ensured by cheap labour, low cost of sale or rent of land, ineffective environmental controls, high demand, support from multilateral and bilateral donors and a short growth cycle.

[ldruide]

Large-scale plantation economies form part of the story of the erosion and appropriation of indigenous peoples subsistence base and territories and the alteration of their indigenous land tenure systems. The reports of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous peoples, has indicated that the loss of lands of indigenous peoples occurred through colonization, nationalization and privatization of their lands

[ldruide]

Demand will probably be around 240 Mt in 2050, nearly twice today's total. This need not be at the expense of forest; oil palm planted on anthropogenic grassland could supply all the oil required for edible purposes in 2050. However, biofuel demand might greatly exceed that for edible use, and the interchangeability of the major oils, for edible and biofuel uses, means that this demand will drive oil palm expansion, whether or not palm oil is actually used for biodiesel.

[ldruide]

Recently the UK banned an advertisement from the Malaysian Palm Oil Council (MPOC) because of misleading and unsubstantiated statements, including that the industry was 'sustainable' and contributed to the alleviation of poverty, especially amongst rural populations'.

[ldruide]

according to a study by the Plantation Workers Support Group the average wage of oil palm workers was 700 RM (207 US dollars), below Malaysia's poverty line.The oil palm industry frequently makes statements that the industry has helped to alleviate poverty in Malaysia. The industry has had difficulty finding enough workers due to the low wages and rough working conditions. Many of the workers in Malaysia's oil palm industry are immigrants from Indonesia some of whom are working illegally

[ldruide]

I wish everything was as rosy as you industry propagandists want us to believe. On October 19th 2009, Plantation Industries Minister Tan Sri Bernard Dompok told parliament that oil palm harvesters and rubber tappers are living above Malaysia's national poverty line, according to a story in the Malaysian Insider. But now representatives of the workers are saying."It is a blatant lie and it has been going on for a long time." M. Sugumaran, Coordinator for the Plantation Workers Support Group

[winmac80]

you forgot the main point of the palm oil industry - to eradicate poverty for the local, enhance the economy of the country hence improving it for the people and also a good candidate to help overcome the global food crisis. what else do you suggest to have a similar profitable and environmentally beneficial alternatives as compared to the palm oil?