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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

The company has replaced its trucks and tractors with mules and water buffalo and has vowed not to expand its operations into standing forest. 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.