• And so we said: 'My God, it's an oil seed crop'.

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  • The oil palm is an efficient crop, yielding up to ten times more oil per hectare than soyabeans, rapeseed or sunflowers.

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  • Because diesel passenger cars are popular in Europe, the mandate is prompting countries like Indonesia and Malaysia to produce biodiesel from their cash crop, palm oil.

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  • The report does not give an answer but some economists have made the attempt, variously citing demand from China and other developing nations, the diversion of crop use from food to fuel oil, and production constraints.

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  • The choice crop of landowners looking to cash in on palm oil, the trees grew along the river in thick forests covering thousands of acres.

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  • Commodities have surged past equities since the beginning of the year, as demand issues and political uncertainty push oil up to record marks and weather patterns across the globe have caused lower crop outputs for commodities like corn and wheat.

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  • They razed the forest to accommodate crop farming, and local tribes were reduced to selling trinkets at the oil camps, or to retreating further into the bush.

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  • Crop and livestock prices have dropped even further, along with other commodities, such as oil.

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  • In fact, it's not far-fetched to imagine a perfect storm in which low-priced oil coincides with climbing natural gas prices just as a drought hits the Midwest, ravaging the corn crop.

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  • But the supply of certified oil has grown slowly, perhaps because producers have to commit themselves only to certifying a portion of their crop as sustainable.

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  • This dependence is a cause of some irony: in the case of soybeans, we see that the bad crop has caused distress in China, where the ubiquitous bean is the source of much of its cooking oil and is a cherished food.

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