ONE of the eye-popping news of this week was that of British supermarket chain Iceland reversing its ban on palm oil due to the sudden shortage of sunflower oil.
Interest in environment, social and governance (ESG) issues, such as deforestation, was a key driver for the supermarket to ban the commodity three years ago.
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