Pension and endowment funds linked to conflict-plagued oil palm in DRC

Mongabay
Mar 22, 2021, 10:09 am211 pts
Well-known investment funds in the U.S., Europe and South Africa are financing a set of oil palm plantations that have been at the center of more than a century of discord in the northeastern quadrant of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), according to a new report from the Oakland Institute, a…

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