Hey followers!! I hope you are all experts now on palm oil since reading my table! I thought in todays post I would give you a little insight into how I went about composing the table for you readers!
Simplifying the complex range of benefits and costs in the categories of social, economic and environmental was provoked by searching for a suitable table to post within this blog and not having much luck!! I embarked on finding journals with the help of google scholar and my university e-journal search facility, so that I could compose a table of my own. Through the time I spent in Borneo and the modules I have studied at university, I had an initial understanding of the main impacts palm oil was having on a social and environmental level, therefore I began my search with addressing issues of biodiversity, livelihoods and the release of carbon from drained peatlands. The articles I found regarding these issues, raised a vast number of other benefits and problems, provoking me to think about other aspects within these categories. In turn this led me to a wider range of literature, encompassing facts and figures surrounding the impacts of palm oil, particularly its economic benefits and losses.
In addition to the searches I carried out, I have a keen interest in commodities and are hoping to secure a graduate commodity trading position and therefore regularly follow changes in demand for different commodities. By doing so, I am aware of the economic importance of palm oil as a commodity and the scale at which is traded from week to week.
I hope this gave you a little more insight into the how and why of composing the table below!
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