palm oil the environmental dilemma amundi research center in Tanzania
A remote sensing assessment found that oil palm plantations covered at least 19.5 Mha globally in 2019 (Fig. 2), of which an estimated 67.2% were industrial-scale plantings and the
Oil palm is one of the primary vegetable oil sources worldwide, including in Tanzania. Tanzania's mean palm oil yield is 1.6 tons per hectare, far below the 6 to 8 tons per hectare