Palm oil firms depriving tribes of millions of dollars
Companies supplying major manufacturers fail to meet promises to share land, joint BBC investigation finds. …
It would take control of the community’s ancestral land and in return, according to the Orang Rimba, they would get more than half of it back, planted with oil palms, a wonder crop in rising demand across the globe. It would be a win-win, as the tribe would sell the fruit they harvested to the company.