Palm oil is a cheap and ubiquitous. It’s used in thousands of everyday products and is the most widely consumed vegetable oil on the planet.

Indonesia will start restricting exports of palm oil this week, a move that could make the global food crisis worse and push up the prices of hundreds of consumer products.

The production of palm oil has been linked to deforestation, pollution, and human rights violations, and is ratcheting up tension among workers.

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PepsiCo, the brand that owns the famous potato chips Lay's - has initiated trials to substitute palm oil with a blend of Sunflower Oil and Palmolein Oil in some of its products.

I had been doing a lot of work on another tropical crop, the infamous oil palm, whose plantations are the scourge of tropical wildlife.

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Since coal, palm and oil prices tend to rise roughly in tandem, Indonesia would benefit overall from $100 oil, according to UBS. Mexico, like America, is also a net importer of crude.

In February Indonesia’s government capped the retail price of cooking oil (made from palm oil) at 14,000 rupiah ($1) a litre for the highest-quality oil, and 11,500 rupiah for the cheaper sort.