Palm oil, cocoa, coffee… who’s going to tend to tomorrow’s large tropical plantations?

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 that are part of our daily diet lies a rarely asked question. Who will agree to work in the fields of the world’s large tropical plantations in years to come? Since producing countries gained independence, the sectors that deal with…