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Palm oil, extracted from the pulp of oil palm fruit, is the main source of vegetable fats and oils on the world market. Its ability to adapt to different climates and its productivity make it a major food safety component in Asian countries and the tropical belt. The book seeks to give the practitioner the necessary elements for setting up and operating a palm stand by combining the basic scientific and technical knowledge required to understand technical choices with the sustainable development priorities of the crop. Special mention is therefore made of actions to limit the potentially negative aspects and highlight the positive aspects of proposed techniques and strategies without forgetting efficient protection of people working in the plantations. Lastly, the essential factual components are given in terms of the use of oil palm products and their impact on human health.

African oil palm --- Elaeis guineensis --- Elaeis melanococca --- Oil palm --- Olie [Palm] --- Oliepalm --- Palm oil tree --- Palmier à huile --- Pratique culturale --- Cultivation --- Huile de palme --- palm oils --- Industrie des corps gras --- oils industry --- extension activities --- Agriculture --- Tropics --- Crops --- Palm oil industry. --- Palm oil. --- economics --- palm tree --- tree --- plant production --- agronomy --- industry --- farm

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Reforestation measures for degraded lands, strategies for the sustainable management of forest resources, and agroforestry practices that incorporate trees into farming systems are increasingly demonstrating their promise for producing commercialized tree products. Although the level of investment so far has remained modest, the challenge is to find ways to scale up promising investments in a way that will have a clear impact at the landscape level. These types of investments can help achieve the triple wins of climate-smart agriculture: increased incomes and yields, climate change adaptation and greenhouse gas mitigation.Market trends are promising for a wide range of tree-based technologies, including tropical fruits, cashews, honey, timber and wood products, lipids, gums and resins, tree crops, and agroforestry systems. In many cases, African entrepreneurs, farmers, civil society, and governments have responded dynamically to the widespread challenge of land degradation. The continent is dotted with landscapes where production of trees on farms and in managed forests has grown dramatically to meet market and subsistence needs; sustainable agricultural practices and revegetation have restored soils and watersheds; and key conservation areas are being protected. However, this is not happening at the scale required by societal needs in Africa. In part, this is due to a lack of strategic cooperation and coordination between private sector investors and land managers (who are focused on realizing profitable opportunities and meeting their own needs) and public and civil society actors (who are focused on restoring forest cover and ecosystem services). Such coordination is only possible when the biophysical potential for landscape restoration, private sector investment opportunity and incentives, and societal demand for multiple benefits converge. Much can be learned from examples of large-scale landscape restoration in Ethiopia, Kenya, Niger, Tanzania, and Zambia, and the variable roles of the private sector, farmers, government, and civil society in supporting and undertaking investment.

Afforestation --- African Development Bank --- Agribusiness --- Agricultural Productivity --- Agricultural Research --- Agriculture --- Bananas --- Biodiversity --- Carbon Dioxide --- Carbon Sequestration --- Clean Development Mechanism --- Climate Change --- Cocoa --- Coffee --- Crop Diversification --- Crop Yields --- Crops --- Crops & Crop Management Systems --- Decision Making --- Deforestation --- Developed Countries --- Economic Development --- Economies of Scale --- Ecosystems --- Environment --- Environment and Natural Resources Management --- Environmental Economics & Policies --- Farming --- Farmland --- Fertilizer --- Financial and Private Sector Development --- Food Security --- Forests --- Fossil Fuels --- Fuelwood --- Land Administration and Management --- Land Management --- Livestock --- Logging --- Maize --- Natural Resources --- Oil Palm --- Other Environment and Natural Resources Management --- Other Financial and Private Sector Development --- Plantations --- Population Growth --- Rural Development --- Seeds --- Soil Erosion --- Streams --- Sugar --- Transaction Costs --- Tree Crops --- Trees --- United Nations --- United Nations Development Programme --- Urbanization --- Wildlife Resources