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With
financing coming from American, European and Asian agri-businesses, palm
bunches in Gabon, Cameroon and the Congo Basin are cultivated then cut from
trees and sent to factories where oil is extracted by hot pressing ©Isaac
Kasamani (AFP)
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Its lower cost has made
it popular in commercial food production, but after being blamed for
deforestation in Asia, palm oil plantations are now getting a similar rap in
Africa.
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Its
lower cost has made it popular in commercial food production, but after being
blamed for deforestation in Asia, palm oil plantations are now getting a
similar rap in Africa ©Xavier Bourgois (AFP)
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