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Introduction

1

PART I. THE GLOBAL EXPANSION OF OIL PALM PLANTATIONS

1.

Cheap oil

5

2.

Cash crop

10

3.

A scramble for lands

15

4.

Communities lose out to oil palm plantations

22

5.

New frontiers for oil palm expansion

30

PART II. ANOTHER SIDE OF PALM OIL, IN AFRICA

6.

A long history and vast biodiversity

38

7.

Oil palm production in West and Central Africa

47

8.

The global land grab for oil palm plantations hits
Africa

55

9.

Well oiled resistance

57

Annex 1 : land grabs for oil palm plantations

61

Annex 2: land grabs for oil palm plantations in the
Papuas of Indonesia and New Guinea

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