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Dec 28, 2018, 5:41 pm283 pts
Mongabay
Small farmers feel the pressure as Ecuador’s palm oil sector expands The first commercial oil palm trees were planted in Ecuador in 1953. Since then, the country has become Latin America’s second largest producer of oil palm, and the world’s sixth largest. The region surrounding the town of La Concordia…
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