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The documentary “A Smallholder’s Voice” highlights the challenges faced by farmers in cocoa and oil palm supply chains in Cameroon

Posted 9 September 20229 September 2022 wcmcLeave a commentPosted in Blog, Central Africa, Impact, Palm oil

September 9th, 2022

A new documentary created by the Trade, Development and Environment Hub (TRADE Hub), led by UNEP-WCMC, gives perspectives from Cameroonian farmers about the increasing global demand for sustainably produced agricultural commodities, as Western governments look … Read More

The social and environmental impacts of the palm oil trade

Posted 16 September 202016 September 2020 wcmcLeave a commentPosted in Agriculture, Central Africa, Indonesia, Palm oil

TRADE Hub researchers Lacour Mody Ayompe (University of California, Irvine), Marije Schaafsma (University of Southampton) and Benis Egoh (University of California, Irvine) recently published a paper entitled ‘Towards sustainable palm oil production: the positive and negative impacts on ecosystem services … Read More

Four New TRADE Hub Fellows at the University of Oxford

Posted 16 September 202016 September 2020 wcmcLeave a commentPosted in Central Africa, News, Uncategorised

We are pleased to welcome four new researchers to our Trade Hub programme: Krossy Mavakala Kalunseviko, Suzanne Mogue Kamga, Alice Karuri and Lude Kinzonzi have joined as 2020/21 Africa Oxford Trade and University of Oxford Biodiversity Fellows.

The … Read More