Is palm oil a kernel of development for African countries like Liberia?

Seeds of the future ... but there are concerns about deforestation with the growth of the industry in Liberia. Photograph: Sutanta Aditya/AFP/Getty Images. About 40km west of Monrovia, the capital of Liberia, in Grand Cape Mount county, a massive billboard proudly announces the arrival of the Malaysian palm-oil conglomerate: "Sime Darby, developing sustainable futures". In the middle of a recently cleared