For most of the last half-century, the story of African palm oil has been a story of scarcity, not surplus....
Every official statistic about Africa’s palm oil industry — production tonnages, export volumes, market-size projections — carries an invisible asterisk. Behind the tidy figures reported by...
There’s a phrase making the rounds in Nigerian agricultural policy circles this year, and it isn’t subtle: “red crude.” It’s what officials in Edo State —...
In recent months, palm oil farmers across Cameroon have taken to the streets to protest what they call unfair, low pricing of their crops. Smallholders and...
When most people think of palm oil, they picture cooking pots, frying pans, and Africa’s bustling markets. But in today’s global economy, palm oil is far...
Cameroon’s palm oil story is one of ambition, politics, and paradox. Despite being one of Africa’s largest producers of the commodity — the so-called “red gold”...
Palm oil is one of Africa’s most important agricultural commodities. While large plantations often dominate headlines, it is smallholder farmers who are quietly underpinning the continent’s...
Palm oil is one of Africa’s most important agricultural commodities. Used in cooking, cosmetics, biofuels and industrial products, it underpins livelihoods across multiple countries. Yet production...
