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
” As Spoor pointed out, most deforestation in the Peruvian Amazon today comes at the hands of small-scale farmers , and he wanted to convince me that industrial agriculture, which had deepened climate impacts elsewhere, could achieve the opposite here. “That is where the conflict began,” he recalled.
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