Mongabay: Sime Darby, a Malaysian palm oil producer, will invest $800 million in palm oil and rubber plantations in Liberia, reports Reuters. The deal will cover 200,000 hectares (500,000 acres) in the West African country. 80 percent of the investment would go towards development of Liberia’s palm oil industry, while the balance would be used to restore and expand country’s third-largest rubber plantation. “It is increasingly difficult to acquire arable plantation land in Asia and thus …