India, Oct. 22 -- Jakarta (dpa) - Palmis the world's most widely used vegetable oil and likely the most versatile, featuring in anything from cosmetics to chocolate to fuel to margarine. Harvested from the oil palm tree, its yields per hectare exceed those of similar crops,meaning less land is needed to produce the same volume of oil. But palm oil is sourced from environmentally damaging monocultures, says Janine Korduan from the German Federation for the Environment and Nature Conservation (BUND). The commodity has long been a target for activistsseeking to curb the destruction of rainforestand orang-utan habitat in Indonesia andMalaysia, where around 80% of the world's supply is grown. Companies operating in the sector have been accused n...