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Palm Oil, Cocoa, Coffee… Who’s Going to Tend to Tomorrow’s Large Tropical Plantations?

Palm oil plantations, for one, are increasingly struggling with the sector’s declining attractiveness, which has hardly changed since the colonial era. Behind basic foodstuffs like palm oil, cocoa, coffee and bananas...

2026.07.13

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Palm Oil, Cocoa, Coffee… Who’s Going to Tend to Tomorrow’s Large Tropical Plantations?

Palm oil plantations, for one, are increasingly struggling with the sector’s declining attractiveness, which has hardly changed since the colonial era. Behind basic foodstuffs like palm oil, cocoa, coffee and bananas...

2026.07.13

AFDagricultural workersbananasCiradcocoacolonial historyColumnsFAOFarmer IssuesFrench Development Agencygender inequalityIndonesiaJohn McCarthylaborLatin AmericaMalaysiamechanizationmigrant laborOriginpalm oilplantationsRoundtable on Sustainable Palm OilRSPOrural employmentsmallholder farmersSoutheast AsiaStefano PonteSustainabilityTALENT projecttropical agricultureWest Africaコーヒー

Palm Oil, Cocoa, Coffee… Who’s Going to Tend to Tomorrow’s Large Tropical Plantations?

Palm oil plantations, for one, are increasingly struggling with the sector’s declining attractiveness, which has hardly changed since the colonial era. Behind basic foodstuffs like palm oil, cocoa, coffee and bananas...

2026.07.13

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Coffee Crops Are Dying from a Fungus with Species-Jumping Genes

For anyone who relies on coffee to start their day, coffee wilt disease may be the most important disease you’ve never heard of. This fungal disease has repeatedly reshaped the global coffee...

2026.04.14

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How the Genome Diversity of Major Crops Tells the Story of Their Evolution

On March 27, 2024, a study published in the scientific journal Nature announced that the sugarcane genome had at last been cracked. This was a remarkable achievement because of the complexity...

2024.07.15

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