Oil Palm: A Global History Robins Jonathan E.
Oil Palm: A Global History Robins Jonathan E. Oil palms are ubiquitous--grown in nearly every tropical country, they supply the world with more edible fat than any other plant and play a role in…
Specifikacia Oil Palm: A Global History Robins Jonathan E.
Oil Palm: A Global History Robins Jonathan E.
Oil palms are ubiquitous--grown in nearly every tropical country, they supply the world with more edible fat than any other plant and play a role in scores of packaged products, from lipstick and soap to margarine and cookies. Robins shows, sweeping social transformations carried the plant around the planet. And as Jonathan E.
Imperialists hungry for cheap fat subjugated Africa's oil palm landscapes and the people who worked them. First brought to the global stage in the holds of slave ships, palm oil became a quintessential commodity in the Industrial Revolution. In the twentieth century, the World Bank promulgated oil palm agriculture as a panacea to rural development in Southeast Asia and across the tropics.
As plantation companies tore into rainforests, evicting farmers in the name of progress, the oil palm continued its rise to dominance, sparking new controversies over trade, land
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