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Conclusion: To Miss the Forest for the Trees?

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In sharp contrast to government and industry depictions of palm oil as a source of progress and prosperity, for many inhabitants of Colombia’s Pacific coast palm oil is not considered to generate the conditions for a better tomorrow.

I have always dreamt of a better Pacific, less violence. That really in Colombia the national government no longer imposes on the Pacific what it wants and what its businessmen want, but that it actually manifests a sense of humanity with this population that has been historically assaulted, that every day has less opportunities and is given less opportunities. So that this region and its inhabitants will have, that we are going to have, a better tomorrow and a better quality of life (Afro-Colombian from Guapi ).

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Mol, H. (2017). Conclusion: To Miss the Forest for the Trees?. 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_7

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