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Liberian Farmers Take on Indonesian Palm Oil Giant

2013-01-25 01:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Agence France-Presse: Liberian farmers who survived a 15-year civil war are now fighting lucrative property deals with Indonesian and Malaysian palm oil companies that threaten the land they live on, if not their sacred burial sites. Thirty hours by car from the capital Monrovia, the green and yellow flag of Golden Veroleum Liberia (GVL), an Indonesian palm oil giant, floats over deforested hills in Sinoe County, southern Liberia. Local farmer Benedict Smarts looked at the scene, and said, "We are not against development,...

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