Palm oil alternatives require more land – study A truck at an oil palm plantation in Indonesia. The country is one of the biggest producers of palm oil in the world. Copyright: Ryan Woo/CIFOR(CC BY-NC-ND 2.0). Speed read But oil palm plantations have unmatched production efficiency Alternatives such as soy bean and rapeseed require more land Share this article: Republish We encourage you to republish this article online and in print, it’s free under our creative commons attribution license, but please follow some simple guidelines: You have to credit our authors. You have to credit SciDev.Net — where possible include our logo with a link back to the original article.