A palm oil company, a group of U.S. venture capitalists, and the destruction of Peru’s rainforest
Food Environment and Reporting Network
DECEMBER 31, 2024
” In Spoor’s view, only sustained investment could lead to the cultivation of valuable crops like oil palm on all the degraded land we had passed. Peru still had only 100,000 acres of palm under cultivation, and Melka was seeking to triple that number, according to a documentary film, “ The King of Cocaland.”
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