Is planting more soybeans and rapeseed the answer to palm oil shortage?

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## Planting more soybeans and rapeseed is not presented as the answer to the palm oil shortage.

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The immediate market response to a palm oil supply crunch may push more soybean planting in the Brazilian Cerrado and more rapeseed in the Canadian prairies, but that is described as a flawed stopgap. Replacing the output of one palm oil plantation would require vastly more land under alternative crops, turning the problem into extensification rather than intensification.

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