‘I can’t get out’: Farmers feel the pressure as Ecuador’s palm oil sector grows

Mongabay
Aug 8, 2018, 8:02 pm170 pts
Jorge Jurado has been farming oil palm on Ecuador’s coast for almost 20 years, and has seen the industry go through many changes. But over the last few years, he and hundreds of other small-scale farmers have been hit by two major plagues: abnormally low market prices for palm oil over the past five years,…

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