Inter Press Service: “Better ‘dendê’ than cattle,” says Violeta dos Reis, who cooks and serves meals in the small eatery she runs with her husband in the community of Arauaí in Brazil’s northern Amazon jungle. In this rural area, a new world is opening up for poor farmers. Her reasoning is economic. Dendê, as the African oil palm is known in Brazil, “offers you more of a future,” she says. For that reason her husband, Florisvaldo Reis, purchased for 14,000 reals (8,000 dollars) 10 hectares of oil palm …