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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. Melka had sought to bring another 12,000 acres into cultivation through this sharecropping strategy. . “That’s something I want to get into.”