Alfred Brownell: How Liberians Fought Big Palm Oil to Protect Their Forests

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How Indigenous Peoples, local communities and environmental rights activists stopped the world’s largest oil palm companies from causing deforestation and accelerating climate change in West Africa.

Alfred Brownell: environmental and human rights lawyer and Executive Director of Green Advocates (GA).

Presented at Blessed Unrest conference via online, extending across weekends in April & May of 2020

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