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    Red gold: the rise and fall of West Africa’s palm oil empire

    By Pauline von Hellermann, University of London For thousands of years, the oil palm - indigenous to West Africa – has had an intimate relationship...

    How palm oil became the world’s most hated and most used fat source

    Palm oil is in everything — from cosmetics to food. Today there are enough oil palm plantations worldwide to cover an area larger than...