The International Seminar on Regional Politics, Administration and Development 2020 (INSORPAD2020), STISIPOL Raja Haji, Riau, INDONESIA, 14-15 October 2020 102 CP010 Nigerian Partial Response on the Global Economy of Palm Oil Sani Shehu *a , and Mohd Afandi Salleh b Department of International Relations, Faculty of Law and International Relations, Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin, Malaysia. * Corresponding author e-mail: sanishehu46@gmail.com Abstract The origin of oil palm tree came from the tropical forest of West African, it has been transferred to tropical area of Southeast Asia, and it has been developed into an agricultural yield. In Africa, the oil palm is being used for over 8,000 years for food consumption. During the British Industrial Revolution, the trade of palm oil began, Nigeria was among the few places where the fruit was first discovered. Palm oil is the major vegetable oils produced globally, it generates nearly 60% of vegetable oils global trade. Previously, palm oil has been criticized publically by campaigns in Europe and US, and associated it with deforestation, burning of forest, violation of human rights, and brutality to animals. Due to this, the palm oil importation to Europe and the US diminished. However, this forced the palm oil suppliers as well as producing countries to embark on producing certified palm oil as requested by Europe and the US. The objective of this paper is to highlight the Nigerian partial response on the global economy of palm oil, the paper is qualitative, it used document analysis, the findings of the paper, is the Nigerian partial response on the global economy of palm oil as well as the challenges raised by western countries. Keywords: Oil Palm, Palm Oil, Challenges by Western Countries, Nigerian Partial Response. INTRODUCTION Nigeria is a society which is characterized as an agricultural economy. In the course of pre-colonial and colonial era, it mainly relied on agriculture as its main source of income. In that time, Nigeria served as a major agricultural products exporter especially when it first obtained its independence. (Central Bank of Nigeria, 2010). The oil palm is significant to Nigerian national economy with great and much emphasis. It can be assessed for food producing and consuming, employing people, generating income to farmers, generating revenue to the economy, and supplying industries with raw materials (USDA, 2010). The oil palm cultivation has expanded in the 1990s and gained globally recognition with 43% production as the main vegetable oil, this has happened as a result of demand from China, India and Europe (RSPO, 2011). In Nigeria, oil and gas is the major revenue source of government. The oil export became the contributor of eighty percent of income source, it contributed to 5.5% of Nigerian GDP (Gross Domestic Product) (National Bureau of Statistics, 2011). Palm oil serves as a commodity which gained global strategy. Palm oil was previously challenged of causing deforestation, burning of forest, brutality to wild animals and other species of jungle birds and animals (Ismail, 2013). In Europe and the US previously, numerous campaigns were publically conducted and criticized palm oil for burning forest, deforestation, brutality to wild animals as well as other species of birds, and violating human rights (IBS Centre for Management Research, 2011). The purpose of this research is to show the Nigerian partial