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To become less damaging, target non-forest lands for palm oil, says book

2014-10-16 20:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Mongabay: Palm oil production has been spectacularly profitable but ecologically disastrous across Southeast Asia, consuming millions of hectares of indigenous lands, rainforests, and peatlands in recent decades. That paradox has made the crop highly controversial despite its importance in providing a high-yielding source of vegetable oil. A new book, published freely online by the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), weighs in on the debate and concludes - like many before it - that the problem...

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