Remove Cattle Remove Pasture Remove Sharecropping
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A palm oil company, a group of U.S. venture capitalists, and the destruction of Peru’s rainforest

Food Environment and Reporting Network

We passed abandoned farms, cattle pastures, and stray dogs, but not much forest. Melka had sought to bring another 12,000 acres into cultivation through this sharecropping strategy. After an hour, Doldourov swung onto a dirt road with tire-swallowing holes. “What is it that people are going to do here in the jungle?