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AuthorPauline von Hellermann

Pauline von Hellermann is a Senior Lecturer, Anthropology, at University of London. She is an environmental anthropologist and political ecologist, who came to Anthropology via History and Development Studies. After completing her PhD at Sussex in 2005 and two postdocs at Sussex and York, she joined Goldsmiths as a lecturer in 2011. She currently holds a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship (2018-2021) for the project Red Gold: A Global Environmental Anthropology of Palm Oil.
A tub of palm oil in Nimba County, Liberia. Edwin Remsberg/GettyImages

Red gold: the rise and fall of West Africa’s palm oil empire

by Pauline von Hellermann Mar 25, 2022Mar 25, 2022

Within a few short decades, expanses of Southeast Asian forest had been cleared, creating a fast track to industrial-scale monoculture plantations, thus ending West Africa’s position as the global hub of palm oil production.

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