Oil palm expansion transforms tropical landscapes and livelihoods

By J. Sayer, J. Ghazoul, Paul N. Nelson, A. Boedhihartono. 2012

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Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Ecology, Global and Planetary Change

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Citations in the corpus

• Oil Palm Adoption, Household Welfare, and Nutrition Among Smallholder Farmers in Indonesia (2017, background): “tropics, because of the rising demand for vegetable oils and biofuels, favorable government policies in producer countries, as well as its superior production potential and profitability compared to alternative land uses (Carrasco et al., 2014; Sayer et al., 2012; OECD and FAO, 2011; McCarthy and Cr”
• The palm oil global value chain: Implications for economic growth and socialand environmental sustainability (2017, background): “…its development has often come at the expense of basic human rights and of biodiverse, carbon-rich tropical forests, as local communities have been evicted from their lands and precious primary forest and peatland ecosystems have been destroyed by fire (see Sheil et al. 2009; Sayer et al. 2012).”
• Does intensification slow crop land expansion or encourage deforestation (2014, background): “Such mosaics are more common in smallholder-based systems (Sayer et al., 2012).”
• Evaluating the effectiveness of palm oil certification in delivering multiple sustainability objectives (2018, background): “Industrial oil palm plantations are predicted to expand from 17–26 million hectares by 2050, with South America and Africa the new frontiers for development (Corley 2009, Sayer et al 2012, Pirker et al 2016).”
• Fostering natural forest regeneration on former agricultural land through economic and policy interventions (2020, background): “…oil, soybeans, sugarcane, pineapples, and other crops require removal of trees from parts of the landscape that hinder mechanized or intensive production, such as flat areas in lowlands, where young patches of natural regeneration are frequently eliminated (Sayer et al 2012, Shaver et al 2015).”
• Towards sustainable palm oil production: The positive and negative impacts on ecosystem services and human wellbeing (2021, background): “As the trade in palm oil grows due to increasing global demand, there has also been a rapid increase in the amount of oil produced and the total area cultivated in regions where oil palms are grown (Sayer et al., 2012).”
• Environmental, Economic, and Social Consequences of the Oil Palm Boom (2020, background): “The standing carbon stock of a tropical rainforest ranges from 175 to 272 tons per hectare (Katayama et al. 2013, Sayer et al. 2012).”