Video: Indonesian villagers missing out on spoils from palm oil boom

Mongabay
Jun 2, 2022, 11:21 pm352 pts
One day in 2017, as a truck loaded with oil palm fruit drove down the main road in his village on the island of Borneo, Rita Dihales decided he’d had enough. He intercepted the truck, insisting that the company whose fruit it carried had failed to share the spoils of its plantation with the local community as…

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