• How much palm oil is consumed in the United States?
  • Domestic palm oil consumption in the United States (U.S.) amounted to approximately 1.9 million metric tons in 2023. There has been a decrease of approximately 1,000 metric tons in comparison to the previous year. Palm oil is an edible vegetable oil.
  • How many palm oil mills are there?
  • An increasing number of processors, traders, and buyers have, however, begun taking the important interim step of tracing their supply chains to the mill level. A new data set launched on Global Forest Watch Commodities helps to globally map palm oil supply chains by showing the locations of almost 800 mills.
  • How much oil does oil palm produce a year?
  • Oil palm crops globally produce an annual 81 million tonnes (Mt) of oil from about 19 million hectares (Mha). In contrast, the second and third largest vegetable oil crops, soybean and rapeseed, yield a combined 84 Mt oil but occupy over 163 Mha of increasingly scarce arable land. The oil palm crop system faces many challenges in the 2020s.
  • Where are palm oil mills located?
  • A mill¡¯s sourcing area overlaps Taman Negara National Park, Malaysia (included in the World Database on Protected Areas). This unprecedented data set consists of 782 palm oil mills, spread across 15 countries. As anticipated, the vast majority of these mills are found in Malaysia (50 percent) and Indonesia (44 percent).
  • Why do we need a palm oil mill?
  • It creates new opportunities to analyze production areas and mills on a global scale, as well as to focus attention on new areas where palm oil production is having an impact on forests. Mill locations can indicate where palm fruit is processed as well as where palm plantations are located.
  • What percentage of palm oil is cultivated by smallholders?
  • Smallholders account for 30 to 40% of global land palm oil cultivation (Hambloch 2018; Euler et al. 2016). In SE Asia there are more than three million smallholders, nearly all of whom cultivate individual family-owned and managed plots of less than 50 ha and often as little as 1¨C2 ha.