Palm Oil Plantations And Deforestation In Guatemala: Certifying Products As ‘Sustainable’ Is No Panacea

Cheap, versatile and easy to grow, palm oil is the world's most consumed vegetable oil and is found in roughly half of all packaged supermarket products, from bread and margarine to shampoo and toothpaste.

But producing palm oil has caused deforestation and biodiversity loss across Southeast Asia and elsewhere, including...