Colombia’s palm oil boom blighted by bloody past and violent present

Mongabay
By <a class="author-link"…Jan 5, 2016, 6:00 pm98 pts
With Indonesia and Malaysia providing around 85 percent of the global palm oil supply, it can be easy to forget who the next major players are. But Colombia, backed by intensive plantation development, is now the world’s fourth largest producer. Proponents of the country’s palm oil boom boast it has thus…

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