What happens when the soy and palm oil boom ends?

Mongabay
Feb 21, 2017, 11:50 am320 pts
Over the past thirty years demand and production of oils crops like oil palm and soybeans has boomed across the tropics thanks to rising incomes, macroeconomic changes and government policies, and substitution effects. This rapid expansion has in some places taken a heavy toll on native, wildlife-rich…

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