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
The company has replaced its trucks and tractors with mules and water buffalo and has vowed not to expand its operations into standing forest. Melka had sought to bring another 12,000 acres into cultivation through this sharecropping strategy. “That is where the conflict began,” he recalled.
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