Tropical countries have a vast frontier to develop • Logging concessions are often bought by foreign owned multinational corporations • Economic benefits are not seen by local residents most affected • Sarawak has lost millions of acres of TRF to oil Palm production • Indigenous people have lost their homes, pesticides contaminate water supplies
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Tropical countries have a vast frontier to develop
• Logging concessions are often bought by foreign owned multinational corporations
• Economic benefits are not seen by local residents most affected
• Sarawak has lost millions of acres of TRF to oil Palm production
• Indigenous people have lost their homes, pesticides contaminate water supplies