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Palm Oil in Myanmar: A Spatiotemporal Analysis of the Effects of Industrial Farming on Biodiversity Loss

BACKGROUND: Palm oil consumption is potentially deleterious to human health, and its production has resulted in 11 million hectares of deforestation globally. Importing roughly 394,000 metric tons of palm oil in 2012 alone, the Burmese government has recently pushed for intensive oil palm developmen...

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Autores principales: Nicholas, Khristopher, Fanzo, Jessica, MacManus, Kytt
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Global Health: Science and Practice 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5878073/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29602872
http://dx.doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-17-00132