Peat bogs in tropical forests, long key outlets for greenhouse gases, could dry up due to farming and global warming, further accelerating climate change and putting more pressure on wetlands, a study out Monday found. The vast swamplands, located largely in southeast Asia, have long helped store atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) and put a brake … Read more
Ghana, together with six other African countries, has agreed in a declaration signed on Wednesday to protect their tropical forests from being cut down to make way for palm oil crops. The other countries are the Central African Republic, Ivory Coast, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Liberia, the Republic of Congo and Sierra Leone. Palm … Read more
The failure of African countries to produce oil palm to meet growing demand has resulted in the description of oil palm production in the continent as anaemic. Although oil palm originated in the tropical rainforest region of West and Central Africa, the region accounts for less than five percent of global output despite consuming close … Read more