A collaborative project between BASF, Cargill and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) has established the world’s first Rainforest Alliance certified production of copra, the dried coconut flesh used to process coconut oil in the Philippines....

Indonesia government officials have been holding talks with multinational companies and farming associations to discuss issues surrounding palm oil production. Indonesia’s Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Forestry and Environment gathered 100 technical...