How Colombia became Latin America’s palm oil powerhouse

Mongabay
May 31, 2018, 6:09 pm945 ptsInteresting
PUERTO CONCORDIA, Colombia — “Don’t write that part down,” Raul Uribe* said as he grabbed my pen out of my hand. Uribe met me at a bakery in the riverside hamlet of Puerto Concordia where narco-inspired corridos play on the radio and a sea of oil palm expands outside town in all directions. With a…

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