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COLOMBIAN LAND GRAB

COLOMBIA: CONFLICT AND COMMERCE

The deforestation and environmental damage being caused by the palm oil industry has now been widely documented. Less well known, however, is the enormous social cost being wreaked in Colombia, where paramilitary groups are forcing people from their land in order to grow oil palms. Christian Aid’s Dominic Nutt reports

58 www.geographical.co.uk JULY 2007