Six steps to tackle exploitation in Indonesia’s palm oil smallholder scheme (commentary)

Mongabay
Feb 23, 2023, 10:16 am190 pts
When the palm oil industry began growing rapidly in Indonesia in the 1980s, the government developed a scheme aimed at ensuring communities would benefit. To gain subsidized funding, companies routinely promised communities as much as 80% of their plantations, in plots known as “plasma.” By 2007, the…

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