Indonesia moves to end smallholder guarantee meant to empower palm oil farmers

Mongabay
May 12, 2020, 5:46 am215 pts
JAKARTA — Palm oil companies will no longer be required to allocate a fifth of their land for smallholder farmers under a new bill, a move activists and officials call harmful to the livelihoods of these farmers. These so-called plasma farms were made mandatory in 2007 to ensure rural communities benefited…

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