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By Oliver Pye,Jayati Bhattacharya

ISBN-10: 9814311448

ISBN-13: 9789814311441

This engaged and very important edited quantity brings jointly the various viewpoints of lecturers, specialists and activists all fascinated with the superb enlargement of palm oil as a globally traded commodity. It finds how this advanced, contested and arguable expression of globalization transcends slender nationwide and sectoral pursuits, stimulating a transnational trade of products, capital and labour, in addition to legislation, norms, values or even knowing. Compelling, readable and insightful, the learn exhibits that company responses to civil society’s matters approximately palm oil’s function in worldwide warming, human rights abuses, land grabbing and biodiversity loss, now must be complemented by means of felony, regulatory and governance reforms to be powerful. -- Marcus Colchester, Director, woodland Peoples Programme.

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