Policy narratives, landholder engagement, and oil palm expansion on the Malaysian and Indonesian frontiers

By J. McCarthy, R. Cramb. 2009

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Subfields: Ecology, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Global and Planetary Change

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Citations in the corpus

• Swidden Transformations and Rural Livelihoods in Southeast Asia (2009, background): “Nucleus estate and smallholder (NES) schemes for oil palm in Indonesia involve the allocation of extensive areas of land (much of which is former swidden land) to a central estate, with varying degrees of support for surrounding landholders to convert their lands to oil palm and supply the central m”
• 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”
• Environmental, Economic, and Social Consequences of the Oil Palm Boom (2020, background): “From the mid-1990s onward, similar smallholder contracting schemes were implemented by private-sector palm oil companies also involving autochthonous communities, yet with much less government support than in the initial NES schemes (Gatto et al. 2017, McCarthy & Cramb 2009).”
• Research, part of a Special Feature on Local, Social, and Environmental Impacts of Biofuels Environmental and Social Impacts of Oil Palm Plantations and their Implications for Biofuel Production in Indonesia (2012, background): “Plantation development commonly lags for years or decades, but the removal of forest cover is considerably faster (Koh and Wilcove 2008, McCarthy and Cramb 2009; A. Casson, L. Taccioni, and K. Deddy, unpublished manuscript).”
• Why do Farmers Prefer Oil Palm? Lessons Learnt from Bungo District, Indonesia (2010, background): “KKPA could be associated with a transmigration project, with local population joining the KKPA cooperative and transmigrants benefiting from a PIR scheme (McCarthy and Cramb 2009).”
• Spatial justice and the land politics of renewables: Dispossessing vulnerable communities through solar energy mega-projects (2016, unknown): “This theoretically significant work can inform the analysis of energy-related developments too (McCarthy and Cramb, 2009; Thondhlana, 2015).”
• Centering labor in the land grab debate (2011, background): “For more general discussions of the welfare implications of different smallholder styles and contract models in the oil palm sector see: McCarthy and Cramb ( 2009 ), Zen et al .”
• Oil palm expansion transforms tropical landscapes and livelihoods (2012, background): “The shift from state-led to neoliberal governance systems in Indonesia has generated policies that facilitate smallholders to increase their share of the market, but successive changes in policy, coupled with regional differences in the manner and effectiveness with which they are implemented, has a”
• Food versus fuel? Going beyond biofuels (2016, background): “Yet biofuels for rural development has remained an important impetus for many developing nations (Jumbe et al., 2009; McCarthy and Cramb, 2009); over the past decade, there has been an ongoing crisis in smallholder agriculture in the developing world characterised by falling public expenditure,…”
• Rates and drivers of mangrove deforestation in Southeast Asia, 2000–2012 (2015, background): “Papua has already granted large areas of terrestrial oil palm concessions (45), with a recent report showing an increasing rate of concession granting in the region (46).”
• Oil palm expansion among smallholder farmers in Sumatra, Indonesia (2016, background): “4 schemes was to help smallholders overcome entry barriers to oil palm cultivation (McCarthy and Cramb, 2009).”