{"id":50052359,"date":"2022-03-28T17:32:10","date_gmt":"2022-03-28T16:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stage.dialogochino.net\/?p=52359"},"modified":"2023-05-09T19:50:23","modified_gmt":"2023-05-09T18:50:23","slug":"52305-palm-oil-amazon-sustainable-or-deforestation-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/forests\/52305-palm-oil-amazon-sustainable-or-deforestation-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon palm oil: sustainable fuel or deforestation risk?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oil palm, known as <\/span>dendezeiro<\/span><\/i> in Brazil, can produce <\/span>up to ten times<\/span><\/a> more vegetable oil per hectare than other crops. But it is regularly condemned as harmful to the biodiversity of tropical forests in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Now, its cultivation looks set to advance in the Brazilian Amazon.<\/span><\/p>\n

In December, Brasil BioFuels (BBF) and Vibra Energia \u2013 the country\u2019s largest distributor of biofuels \u2013 <\/span>announced<\/span><\/a> plans to build a biorefinery for \u201cgreen diesel\u201d in Manaus, the capital city of Amazonas state. Produced from soybean<\/a> and\/or palm oil, the fuel is seen by many as desirable for low-carbon futures, as it is less polluting than fossil-based diesel.<\/span><\/p>\n

The refinery is currently in the study phase, and is still without an environmental license or deadline to start construction. But with planned investments of 1.8 billion reais (US$378 million) and a start of operations in 2025, the venture could produce up to 500 million litres of diesel per year.<\/span><\/p>\n

To reach this volume of production, BBF plans to plant 120,000 hectares of oil palm by 2026, in areas yet to be defined. This would increase the area devoted to oil palm in Brazil<\/a> by about 60%. The crop is already used in a variety of consumer products and occupies 201,000 hectares in the country, according to <\/span>data<\/span><\/a> from the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE).<\/span><\/p>\n

Brazilian law <\/span>states<\/span><\/a> that oil palm should only be cultivated in areas that were deforested before 2007. BBF\u2019s president, Milton Steagall has assured that the crop already follows these sustainable standards, and also contributes to carbon sequestration in previously degraded areas.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cOil palm does not occupy forest space. We are talking about areas that were \u2018anthropised\u2019 before 2007, and which would be difficult to recover, because frequently they have already turned into pasture,\u201d Steagall told Di\u00e1logo Chino. \u201cWe take degraded areas and make a perennial crop, which is not mechanised, does not require much fertiliser, and produces for 35 years.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Palm oil use<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nFrom soaps to margarine and biofuels, palm oil is used in almost everything, including in the generation of the electrical energy we use. It is the world's most widely used oilseed product.
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Steagall added that the refinery will help to power 20 thermoelectric plants in operation and another 14 being planned in the Amazon. For this reason, he said, it will be vital to offer a source of clean energy to the region\u2019s thermoelectric plants, which currently operate with fossil diesel.<\/span><\/p>\n

However, researchers and environmentalists have criticised the expansion of infrastructure for the production of palm oil in the Amazon.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the crop with the most devastating potential in the world being implemented in the heart of the world\u2019s largest tropical forest,\u201d said Lucas Ferrante, a researcher at the National Institute for Amazonian Research (INPA). He described oil palm as \u201ca proven predatory crop, which causes enormous loss of biodiversity\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

The advance of oil palm plantations can have multiple impacts on tropical forests \u2013 which have mainly been seen in the palm hotspot of Southeast Asia, where habitat loss has put <\/span>at least 193 species<\/span><\/a> at risk of extinction. And according to the Union of Concerned Scientists, <\/span>only 15%<\/span><\/a> of species that inhabit tropical forests can survive in oil palm plantations.<\/span><\/p>\n

Palm oil in Brazil goes against the world<\/h2>\n

In 2010, the Brazilian government launched the Sustainable Palm Oil Production Programme with the expectation of leveraging Brazilian production and developing in the Amazon region, but the programme has not taken off. Less than 3% of Brazil\u2019s biodiesel today comes from oil palm, according to the <\/span>National Petroleum Agency<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Even though more than 90% of the crop\u2019s planting is in the nine states of the Brazilian Amazon, it has not brought the expected benefits to the region, partly due to the weak action of environmental agencies, says Carlos Rittl, a specialist in public policies from the Rainforest Foundation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nEleven Brazilian companies make Brazil the world\u2019s 10th largest palm oil producer. Colombia, Guatemala, Honduras and Ecuador are Latin America\u2019s other major producers.
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\u201cThere is no way to fulfil the commitment of only producing in an already deforested area without governance, without control and without enforcement of environmental laws,\u201d says Rittl. Even though oil palm contributes to sequestering carbon by replacing degraded pastures, it stimulates new deforestation. \u201cOil palm is pressuring cattle ranching into new areas of native forest,\u201d he adds.<\/span><\/p>\n

This is occurring, Rittl says, amid the ongoing dismantling of environmental protection agencies in Brazil and successive record years for deforestation and invasions of protected areas. Between 2019 to 2021, average annual deforestation in the Amazon was <\/span>56.6%<\/span><\/a> higher than the 2016 to 2018 period.<\/span><\/p>\n

Palm oil has a small share in Brazil\u2019s fuel matrix, and a sizeable proportion of what it does use, it imports. But cultivation of oil palm has almost doubled in the last decade in the country, according to <\/span>IBGE<\/span><\/a>, driven by <\/span>fiscal stimuli<\/span><\/a> that helped attract agribusinesses to the Amazon.<\/span><\/p>\n

While Brazil invests in oil palm to target biofuel and energy markets, growing international pressures are leading two major buyers \u2013 <\/span>Europe<\/span><\/a> and the <\/span>United States<\/span><\/a> \u2013 to discuss import barriers.<\/span><\/p>\n

This is the crop with the most devastating potential in the world being implemented in the heart of the world\u2019s largest tropical forest<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The EU also hopes to eliminate<\/a> palm oil based fuels by 2030 \u2013 five years after the Brazilian refinery goes into operation \u2013 while Germany has announced it will stop using palm oil in biofuels from 2023.<\/p>\n

In China, there are non-governmental pushes to increase uptake of certified palm oil, says Rittl. The industry\u2019s major certification body, the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), has been <\/span>working to reduce the environmental impact<\/span><\/a> of the country\u2019s procurement, as it is also a major importer.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIf we have an expansion of production in Brazil beyond domestic use, there will soon be no room in the market,\u201d says Rittl.<\/span><\/p>\n

Palm oil impacts on traditional Amazon communities<\/h2>\n

The advance of palm oil has already had negative impacts on traditional communities in the Amazon, according to Andr\u00e9 Carvalho, a professor at the Federal University of Par\u00e1 (UFPA). \u201cStudies confirm the almost complete loss of character of the way of life in the region, food insecurity, besides the expropriation of land and violence in the field, including murders,\u201d he told Di\u00e1logo Chino.

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Expropriation of land for oil palm plantations in quilombola communities has generated conflict (Image: Negritar Produ\u00e7\u00f5es)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

<\/div>This is the case for Acar\u00e1, a municipality in the northeast of Par\u00e1 state, where Afro-Brazilian <\/span>quilombola<\/span><\/i> communities claim an area from which they say they were expropriated by Agropalma, a palm oil producer with RSPO certification.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Jos\u00e9 Joaquim Pimenta, president of the association that brings together six <\/span>quilombola<\/span><\/i> communities, said the expropriation occurred more than three decades ago. At first, Agropalma\u2019s expansion occurred \u201con a small scale\u201d, Pimenta says, through land purchase. But starting in 1987, the company acquired a farm and went beyond the limits of the property.<\/span><\/p>\n

Pimenta says the company \u201cinvaded traditional territories, initiating <\/span>grilagem<\/span><\/i> [land grabbing]. Between 1987 and 1990, it cut down a very large natural reserve area to plant oil palm.\u201d In 2015, the legal fight to return to these areas began.<\/span><\/p>\n

In 2018, the Federal Court <\/span>suspended<\/span><\/a> the registration of two Agropalma farms on suspicion of illegal occupation, falsification of documents and notary fraud, following a request from the State Public Ministry of Par\u00e1 (MPE-PA). <\/span><\/p>\n

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Quilombola communities are resisting the encroachment of oil palm plantations onto their territories (Image: Joaquim Pimenta)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

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Agropalma argued that the lands were \u201cacquired in good faith\u201d. After the Federal Court confirmed the irregularities, the company said it \u201cdid not oppose the court decision to cancel the registrations\u201d and is waiting for the land title to be regularised.<\/p>\n

However, even with the registrations suspended, Agropalma continues to occupy the area, and conflicts with the <\/span>quilombolas<\/span><\/i> have been intensifying. \u201cRecently, we have been prevented by Agropalma from accessing part of the forest, stretches of the Acar\u00e1 River where we used to fish, and even cemeteries where our ancestors are found,\u201d says Pimenta.<\/span><\/p>\n

In February, the restrictions \u201calmost led to a confrontation\u201d against armed Agropalma security guards, Pimenta says. At the time, <\/span>quilombolas<\/span><\/i> were camping in the disputed area as a protest against the company\u2019s <\/span>failure to comply<\/span><\/a> with a recommendation by the MPE-PA to allow access to the site. Human rights organisations have been trying to mediate the dialogue between them.<\/span><\/p>\n

Oil palm reduces Amazon biodiversity<\/h2>\n

Oil palm already brings harmful consequences to biodiversity<\/a> in the Amazon. Alexander Lees, a researcher at Manchester Metropolitan University, is one of the authors of <\/span>a paper<\/span><\/a> warning of the loss of bird habitat in the municipalities of Moju and Tail\u00e2ndia, in northeast Par\u00e1, where there are extensive plantations.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cOil palm is an extremely predatory crop for Amazonian biodiversity,\u201d Lees told Di\u00e1logo Chino. \u201cWhile in primary forest, we easily find more than 300 species of birds, in the midst of oil palm this number is around 20. It is even lower than in pastures.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Incompatible with family-based agriculture, the palm also ends up competing with subsistence crops such as cassava, an important source of income for small farmers, according to Auristela Castro, researcher at the Federal University of West Par\u00e1. She explains that oil palm generates \u201can atmosphere of uncertainties and threats\u201d to the quality of life of small farmers.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cOil palm production practices are still far short of the pillars of social equity and environmental sustainability,\u201d adds Castro.<\/span><\/p>\n

Asked about the environmental impacts and the intensifying land disputes related to palm oil, Steagall replied that the company seeks to \u201crespect the rules and plant only within the zoning areas [intended for oil palm]\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

Palm oil or renewable energy<\/h2>\n

Despite palm oil\u2019s <\/span>high yield<\/span><\/a> per hectare, and even though it guarantees a cleaner fuel than those from fossil sources, Lees believes that the best way forward is to reduce demand. \u201cExchanging fossil fuels for biodiesel in thermoelectric plants and cars is very good, but even better would be to replace thermoelectric plants for solar and wind energy, replace cars for bicycles and electric buses,\u201d he says.<\/span><\/p>\n

Carlos Rittl agrees that it is necessary to prioritise renewable power over thermal plants, which is where most Amazon palm oil currently ends up. For him, photovoltaic energy is the best bet for Brazil: \u201cIn 2025, it will be the cheapest energy in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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