Documenting the consequences of palm oil production beyond Southeast Asia
▻https://news.mongabay.com/2017/02/documenting-the-consequences-of-palm-oil-production-beyond-southeast-
Oil palm plantations are rapidly mushrooming throughout the tropics.
A new film, Appetite for Destruction: The Palm Oil Diaries, looks at some of the consequences of that expansion.
This is an interview with the film’s director, #Michael_Dorgan.
Most of the attention around palm oil production has focused on where the crop has the largest footprint: Southeast Asia. Yet oil palm plantations are rapidly mushrooming throughout the tropics, from the species’ ancestral home in West and Central Africa to Pacific islands to Latin America. A new film, Appetite for Destruction: The Palm Oil Diaries, looks at some of the social and environmental impacts of that expansion, by visiting communities, forests, and plantations in Cameroon, #Guatemala, and Colombia.