A Fair Trade Approach for Promoting Food Security and Ensuring Supply Sustainability in Oils & Fats Trade

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Journal of Oil Palm and the Environment
Focus and Scope of Journal Journal of Oil Palm and Environment (JOPE) is an Open Access online forum to share knowledge that focuses on oil palm cultivation, palm oil production and applications. This will include the impacts resulting from such activities, particularly those related to the environment. JOPE will also feature articles related to issues and policies that affect any of the above palm oil industry activities. JOPE is targeted to reach a wide spectrum of readers. The contents of the Journal will be in the form of original research papers, short communications, editorials, viewpoints and comments. Due to its wide array of topics, JOPE will be useful to researchers, academicians, policy makers, practitioners and the general public who are associated with or have an interest in palm oil and the global oils and fats industry.

Journal of Oil Palm & the Environment (JOPE), Vol 1 (2010)

A Fair Trade Approach for Promoting Food Security and Ensuring Supply Sustainability in Oils & Fats Trade

Abstract

Escalating world population requires more food. Planet Earth is already burdened to meet this challenge due to the omnipresent scarcity of arable land and increasing cumulative pollution loads. In order to obtain maximum yield output, limited land resource must be used rationally by cultivating crops of choice with the highest yield per hectare. An example in the oils and fats sector is oil palm. In addition, the introduction of unfair trade practices and regulations applied to the oils and fats trade, disguised in the form of environmental requirements such as limiting deforestation, can lead to lower food production and consequently drive up food prices; thus, threatening food security.

Yusof Basiron

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