New rule puts Indonesia’s protected forests up for grabs for agribusiness

Mongabay
Nov 19, 2020, 11:12 pm188 pts
JAKARTA — Indonesia’s dwindling forests may be cleared for farmland under a government-led program to boost domestic food production, raising fears of a surge in deforestation. The government’s “food estate” program calls for establishing millions of hectares of new farmland, mostly for rice and other…

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