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“Wherever you find the palm oil industry, you find progress” (Fedepalma 2002). This claim forms the essence of a promotional video that marked the 40th anniversary of Fedepalma, the National Federation of Oil Palm Growers of Colombia.

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Mol, H. (2017). Introduction. In: The Politics of Palm Oil Harm. Palgrave Studies in Green Criminology. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55378-8_1

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