In the third and final episode of China Dialogue's podcast series, Palm Oil Frontiers, Gayathri Vaidyanathan takes to the streets of Chennai in southern India to find out how much people know about palm oil. India is the world’s largest impor

Squeaky clean

Jul 25th, 2022 22m 2s

In episode two of China Dialogue's podcast series, Palm Oil Frontiers, Lise Josefsen Hermann visits Manabí province in Ecuador to find out if it’s really possible to produce palm oil sustainably. The narrative around palm oil has long been ex

The mothers of Malen

Jul 15th, 2022 20m 39s

In episode one of China Dialogue's new podcast series, Palm Oil Frontiers, Abdul Brima visits Malen Chiefdom in Sierra Leone to find out how an industrial-scale oil palm plantation is impacting the lives of local women. The oil palm is native t