{"id":10032,"date":"2020-06-18T08:29:20","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T05:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=10032"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:31:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:31:07","slug":"could-africa-have-a-sustainable-palm-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2020\/06\/18\/could-africa-have-a-sustainable-palm-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Could Africa Have a Sustainable Palm Industry?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Palm plantations are associated with deforestation and ecological harm, but researchers are pointing to ways things can be done differently in Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Palm products, and especially&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/palm+oil\/\">palm oil<\/a>, are increasingly used in thousands of products across the world, from pizza to toothpaste. However,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/palm\/\">palm<\/a>&nbsp;plantations in Asia have come under scrutiny from the internal community in recent years for associations with deforestation and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/environmental+degradation\/\">environmental degradation<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, palm agriculture is on the rise in Africa, and Imperial researchers have been looking at how there might be an opportunity there for a more sustainable palm industry. <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2020-06-africa-sustainable-palm-industry.html\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Palm plantations are associated with deforestation and ecological harm, but researchers are pointing to ways things can be done differently in Africa. Palm products, and especially&nbsp;palm oil, are increasingly used&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10034,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}