Planet palm oil: peasants pay the price for cheap vegetable oil
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Expanding production of cheap palm oil comes at a high price. Destruction of rainforests, labour exploitation, and brutal land grabbing: these are just a few of the nasty consequences that come with today’s oil palm plantations.
With palm oil companies finding lands in Indonesia and Malaysia more difficult to acquire, attention is shifting to Africa. Over the past fifteen years, foreign companies have signed over 60 deals covering nearly 4 million hectares in central and western Africa for the development of oil palm plantations. The land grabs are already generating violent conflicts in several African countries.
Planet palm oil: peasants pay the price for cheap vegetable oil
Cheap oil
Cash crop
A scramble for lands
Communities lose out to oil palm plantations
New frontiers for oil palm
A long history and vast biodiversity
Oil palm production in West and Central Africa
Well oiled resistance
Land grabs for oil palm plantations in Africa and Papua
