Safeguarding the rainforests - The future of palm oil

Safeguarding the rainforests - The future of palm oil | DW Documentary

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Palm oil can be found in countless products in supermarkets around the world. Producing it involves clearing huge areas of rainforest. But there are more sustainable methods and alternatives.
The unchecked expansion of oil palm plantations poses a threat to the climate, biodiversity, and the habitats of many animal species. Among the alternative options to palm oil is an innovative idea from Germany. Ludovic Gerboin was frustrated by a problem that plagues him and many bakers: the amount of unsold, leftover bread at the end of every day. By chance, he met Thomas Brück, a professor of synthetic biotechnology at the Technical University of Munich who was working on creating a palm oil substitute. Out of their partnership came a new alternative: yeast oil, produced from roasting, shredding, and fermenting stale bread. Thomas Brück says his yeast oil has a longer life than palm oil and can be reused up to 60 times.
Sulastri Rahmawati's oil palm plantation on the Indonesian part of the island of Borneo enables her to feed her family of six. She's one of millions of people around the world who are dependent on the plant. Oil palm trees boast an enormous yield that meets the growing demand for vegetable fats. Rahmawati and her cooperative started growing oil palms 20 years ago. This used to mean deforestation, pesticides, and synthetic fertilizers. Now, however, they're committed to sustainable production and taking social responsibility.
But even sustainable oil palm production leads to huge amounts of harvest waste. Together with partners in Thailand, German entrepreneur Markus Matuschka has devised a way of making a new raw material from oil palm fruit that can provide a substitute for timber and paper.
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@sbludba Жыл бұрын

If palm oil was a western product, it will have been marketed as the worlds best edible oil. But it is an Asian oil that is needed by the world for sustenance. Research has shown that palm oil is one of the best oils for consumption, with only olive oil and coconut oil coming before. Per sq kilometer, palm oil produces more oil than any other known to man. Replacing forest for palm trees is just replacing one green for another.

@bonifacebanta4590 Жыл бұрын

Corn, olive, sunflower eventually processed as cooking oil are planted in the air. Not on the soil. Opssss 😂

@lusimyer Жыл бұрын

Maybe I dont understand everything here??? ..but....If the bakery has so much left over...wouldn't the first option be to reduce the amount you produce? If it means you run out by a fraction, so be it. Or if there is STILL left overs then do what they do ..at least its less waste and energy used. Plus they would save money by using less ingredients.

@azmiam1972 Жыл бұрын

British colonial destroyed the forest first, by turning the tropical jungle into rubber plantations. Then palm oil replaced the rubber trees. Why the campaign against palm oil?

@belajarsaham3273 Жыл бұрын

1 hectare palm oil is way better and productice rather than 1 hectare sugar,corn sun flower,olive etc. 😂😂😂😂 just because palm oil cannot planted in europe so... yes never stop black campaign palm oil.

@anonymous13141 Жыл бұрын

Is there any documentary on how corn and soh is depleting the underground water faster than we thought?

@ricky6953

Palm oil will replace fossil oil with nickel, they obviously don't like it, unless they control the market for palm oil and nickel, they will definitely say it's good 😂

@karlvandenhole9342 Жыл бұрын

A good try, this film, but has sooooooo many mistakes and misconceptions! 1. First of all, you cannot compare Palm Oil production in Indonesia/Malaysia with Thailand at all. In Indonesia/Malaysia, approx 80% of Palm Oil is produced by large holdings. In Thailand, it's just the opposite and approx. 80% is being produced by smallholders. 2. Secondly, where did that german guy and his partner in Chonburi get the idea that smallholders in Thailand get money for the empty fruit bunches? This is simply a lie!! Smallholders sell the fruit bunches by weight and don't get the empty bunches back. So, there's no extra money in it for them. 3. On the contrary: Smallholders normally use the empty fruit bunches as an additional fertilizer when they buy them back from the mills. When TEPP takes this away from them by using it all for their obsolete packaging company, they'll even earn less! 4. There are no Orang Utans in Thailand and there is no destruction of rainforest worth mentioning for Palm Oil plantations. 5. The production of that oil from bread leftovers is meaningless in the production chain and probably costs more to produce than Palm Oil, taking into account all costs. 6. The best way to deal with leftovers is to produce less. But the bakery keeps overproducing on a daily basis to avoid a possible small loss by being sold out. 6. RSPO certification is a near impossible goal for a smallholder and too costly as well. It's a good start, but too difficult. Only cooperatives can achieve that certification. 7. Palm Oil is irreplacable. No matter what European Eco-Colonialists say. Biodiversity is greater in those plantations than on the empty fields of Europe. I'd recommend them to start there instead of keeping telling people in Asia what to do.

@Adam-ut9nt Жыл бұрын

Europe and US produced oil can't compete with cheaper palm oil. Hence the propaganda against palm oil using environment preservation. Those corn field and wheat fields are much larger but nobody complaint the environment damage done to local habitat. What about cattle farm in US and Europe? Cattle is the no 1 agriculture source of greenhouse gases worldwide.

@laichuonkui69 Жыл бұрын

As palm oil is a cheaper alternative to soya oil, sun flower oil, olive oil etc. Since palm oil which produces by 3rd world country and is a competitors to West, it will continue to attack palm oil. If palm oil is not oroduce in Asian or 3rd world, it will be a different story.

@hidupdidesa9068 Жыл бұрын

Talking about deforestation, just look how European lost their forests long time ago and as I know there's no effort to rebuild. They like to criticize others countries but never point their fingers to themselves.

@shuntshunt Жыл бұрын

The main driver of Palm Oil deforestation in Borneo/ Kalimantan in the last 20 years , has been the Bio-fuel industry. This in turn is driven by government mandate e.g. The European Unions Renewable Energy Directives. When you fill up your car look at the details on the pump. If you are filling with gasoline it will state the amount of ethanol (E). If you are filling with diesel it will state the amount of bio-diesel (B). Bio diesel (methyl ester) is mostly made from vegetable oil; in the EU that is primarily palm oil.

@laurag1024 Жыл бұрын

It's great to see there are sustainable alternatives, I hope these processes spread fast so the damage to animals and their habitats will minimize exponentially.

@daviddefortier5970 Жыл бұрын

At the end, the guy mentioned that he can produce the lab oil for around ⅔ the cost of palm oil.. however, its not clear on if he depends on all that left over bakery waste being freely donated to him? My thoughts are that those bakeries could save much more money if they planned their stock flow more effieciently to reduce or eliminate their left over waste. Why do they have to over produce? Why not under produce, so they can sell out and have zero waste?

@wk3960 Жыл бұрын

🤔🤔🤔... What happened to all the natural forrest in Europe and US...???

@khalcarl7163 Жыл бұрын

I am very grateful to be able to work in palm oil ...there is no pressure to work in palm oil except sometimes the salary is not satisfactory...the important thing is hard work..There are positives and negatives in every job..

@HMClagi Жыл бұрын

Awesome of course, but if the bakery has so much left each day, maybe he is making too much. Part of the job, I think, is to calculate such things. Part of the logistics. Here in Indonesia nothing is left. Often people even get told "already finished" at the later parts of the day. And while coming to an empty store with only one or two buns left that are not the ones you actually wanted, nothing gets wasted, and in a more easy way. Come earlier tomorrow if you really want it. Just like other people do/did before you.

@ann07ps49 Жыл бұрын

Funny they blame every part of Indonesian palm plantation w/o showing the efforts made to make the plantation more sustainable. It's in progress to renew our unproductive plantation so the land use will not change. We also give the farmer weed cutter machine to reduce the use of herbicide. We also use the outer hard shell of the palm fruit to produce fuel..