title: The oil palm in all our lives: how this came about
abstract: Over time, the oil palm has become the crop of central importance to both our daily lifestyle and to many of the great industries that man has developed. Remarkably, few recognize the oil palm and its fruit, and even fewer know its history. This article tells the story of the oil palm's rise to prominence from a wild plant of Equatorial Africa to becoming the most valuable plantation economy of the tropical world.
authors.affiliation: University of Western Australia.
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Henderson
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Osborne