Don’t ignore palm oil’s power to alleviate poverty, improve health

[caption id="attachment_450678" align="alignleft" width="300"] Oil palm smallholder at work in Johor: Oil palm cultivation has lifted millions out of poverty by providing an income for small farmers and rural communities.[/caption]

The World Health Organisation’s (WHO) recent bulletin contained an article focused on the palm oil sector. The article was full of errors, omissions, assumptions and other evidence of bias.