Skip to main content
Close
Login Register
Search
  • About
    • What We Do
    • Who We Are
    • FAQs
  • Our Writing
    • Explainers
    • Essays
    • Letterbox
    • More
  • Podcasts
  • Our Events
  • Projects
    • Power In The Food Systems
    • Local-Global Scale Project
    • MEAT: The Four Futures Podcast
    • Fuel To Fork
    • Nature
    • Reckoning with Regeneration
    • SHIFT
    • Rethinking the Global Soy Dilemma
  • Resources
  • Opportunities
    • Jobs
    • Funding
    • Courses
    • Collaborations
    • Events
  • Newsletter
  • TABLE (EN)
Search
Back

Vegetable oil

Image
Image: Jonas Dücker, person holding coconut husks, Unsplash, Unsplash licence
Featured articles
Coconut oil, conservation and the conscientious consumer
According to this paper, coconut oil cultivation puts a much greater number of species at risk per million tonnes of oil than other oils, including palm oil, despite narratives about the environmental impacts of oils usually focusing on deforestation caused by palm oil cultivation.
Read
Image
Reports
Edible fats and oils - insights and trends
This report explains several trends and issues impacting the edible fats and oils system, including increasing demand, land use, public health, climate impacts, restrictions on trans fats, the search for alternatives to palm oil and soy, and supply chain transparency.
Read
Image
Reports
Edible fats and oils - Creating a collaboration for change
FCRN member Samuel Smith of international sustainability non-profit Forum for the Future has contributed to this report, which sets out the case for organisations to act on the sustainability of all the fats and oils in their supply chains, including but not limited to palm oil.
Read
Image
Image: AEPF, Olive tree Italy, Pixabay, Pixabay Licence
News and resources
Italian olive harvest falls 57%, partly due to extreme weather
Extreme weather events such as frosts, heavy rains and droughts are the main drivers of lower olive yields in Italy, according to Professor Riccardo Valentini of the Euro-Mediterranean Centre for Climate Change. Italy has experienced a 57% drop in olive oil production in 2018.
Read
Image
Image: Biswarup Ganguly, Frying Samosas (bn: Singara) in deep oil at Morabad, Ranchi, Wikimedia Commons, Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported
News and resources
WHO plans to remove industrial trans fats from food supply
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has set out a strategy for removing industrially-produced trans-fatty acids from the global food supply. WHO estimates that half a million people die each year because of cardiovascular disease caused by trans fat consumption. Artificial trans fat are found in partially hydrogenated vegetable oils (a process that gives liquid vegetable oils a higher melting point), while some natural trans fats are found in meat and dairy.
Read
Image
Photo credit: Scion_cho, Junked, Flickr, Creative Commons licence 2.0
Resource
Junking tropical forests for junk food?
A key ingredient in junk food is vegetable oil. 60% of this oil is from oil palm and soybean, production of which has been expanding in Southeast Asia and South America, resulting in widespread deforestation and biodiversity loss. In this article, the authors calculate the amount of current deforestation due to vegetable oil consumption (through junk food) and extrapolate vegetable oil demand to predict the deforestation future consumption patterns would cause by 2050.
Read
Image
Resource
Excessive consumption of sugar, salt and saturated fat generates medical costs of 16.8 billion EUR in Germany
In a joint project researchers from the University Halle-Wittenberg (Germany) looked at the direct medical treatment costs of nutrition-associated diseases related to the overconsumption of sugars, salt and saturated fatty acids. In all, the team identified 22 clinical endpoints with 48 risk-outcome pairs.
Read
Image
Resource
New research show fish oil can be extracted from plant seeds
Read

Sign up for Fodder, our newsletter covering sustainable food news.

Sign up
  • Glossary
  • About
  • Our Writing
  • Podcasts
  • Resources

Social

YouTube Facebook Instagram

© Copyright 2025

A collaboration between: