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Transforming the Delta

Food Environment and Reporting Network

Theyre as fertile as can be. The history of how this happenedhow one of the countrys most fertile farming regions became a knot of poverty, hunger, and racial injusticeis complicated and painful. They till less, plant cover crops after harvest, and have drastically cut their use of fertilizer and insecticides.

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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 United States later financed a mill that would be run by a farmer cooperative. Early financers included Eric Varvel, then the CEO of Credit Suisse in the Asia-Pacific region and Steadfast Financial, a New York hedge fund with over $8 billion under management. “Oh, f**k,” he remembered thinking. “What is oil palm?