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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. The United States later financed a mill that would be run by a farmer cooperative. Melka had sought to bring another 12,000 acres into cultivation through this sharecropping strategy. “Oh, f**k,” he remembered thinking.