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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

” His biggest problem was that most available land on Borneo and other parts of Indonesia and Malaysia was controlled by Indigenous people or held in state forestry concessions. Seed funds came from wealthy friends and friends of friends, some of whom told me they hadn’t fully appreciated what they were supporting.