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Oil Palm Plantations

The Major Social and Environmental Impacts of Industrial Oil Palm Monocultures in African and Other Tropical Nations

Shortages of local staple foods

Intercropping is not allowed or compatible with short hybrid varieties
Farm area is converted to plantations

Impacts of agrochemicals

Pollution, chemicals banned in industrialized countries are used by these corporations on the grounds of reduced cost and lack of supervision by the State
High cost of these chemicals
Erratic supplies

Impacts on human health

Plantations are located close to human habitations
Aircraft sprays drift to towns

Vulnerability of the palm monocultures to insect pests and diseases, which have experienced unusually massive and destructive insect invasions

Deforestation and impacts associated with deforestation

Flooding and other environmental impacts
Growing cost and scarcity of forest products such as "bush meat", medicinal plants, and wood, an important constructional material and the basic fuel source

Environmental pollution by the palm fruit and palm oil effluents at large processing facilities.

Palm oil production effluents discharged into open land during processing render the land useless for any agricultural purposes due to multiple impacts on soil chemical, physical, and biological properties. In spite of the existence of opportunities for converting the effluents into useful products, they continue being discharged untreated into the environment.

In sum, although large-scale oil palm plantations might appear to be attractive because of their ability to accelerate agricultural production and agro-industrial growth, they are basically vulnerable and have adverse effects on traditional landholding and land-use rights, on food and fuel security, and on the natural environment.

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- Excerpts from "The Bitter Fruit of the Oil Palm" http://www.wrm.org.uy/plantations/material/oilpalm4.html

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