Oil Palm Estate Development And Its Impact On Forests And Local Communities In West Papua

Author : Fransina F Kesaulija,Bernadetta MG Sadsoeitoebeon,Hans FZ Peday,Max J Tokede,Heru Komarudin,Rubeta Andriani,Krystof Obidzinski
Publisher : CIFOR
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9786021504468

Get Book

Oil palm estate development and its impact on forests and local communities in West Papua by Fransina F Kesaulija,Bernadetta MG Sadsoeitoebeon,Hans FZ Peday,Max J Tokede,Heru Komarudin,Rubeta Andriani,Krystof Obidzinski Pdf

This paper analyses the environmental, socioeconomic and cultural impacts of oil palm development in the Prafi Plain of Manokwari District in West Papua Province. This analysis is based on interviews and focus group discussions conducted in January-August 2011, a literature survey, and analysis of Landsat images of the region. The research findings indicate that oil palm cultivation brings significant benefits-such as infrastructure development, higher incomes for local stakeholders and broader opportunities for customary communities. However, the large number of immigrant workers brought in to work on the plantation estate are a source of conflict with the local population. Oil palm development has had adverse environmental impacts as it has resulted in the deforestation of about 60% of the Prafi watershed. It has also caused soil erosion, poor water quality and air pollution. To avoid additional adverse impacts, the development and expansion of oil palm estates should focus on replanting old plantation areas with high-yield varieties and planting on non-forested and degraded land. Special land zones should be set aside for the indigenous Arfak people to use for subsistence farming. Additional efforts should be made to ensure that local communities receive proper compensation for the loss of use of their traditional lands. Increasing transparency in land allocation, stricter supervision of plantation operations and sanctions for non-compliance with sustainability standards are of utmost importance.

Author : Fransina F. Kesaulija
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2024-07-03
Category : Electronic book
ISBN : OCLC:1066428373

Get Book

Oil Palm Estate Development and Its Impact on Forests and Local Communities in West Papua by Fransina F. Kesaulija Pdf

Author : Agus Andrianto,Barnabas F Sedik,Habel Waridjo,Heru Komarudin,Krystof Obidzinski
Publisher : CIFOR
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-19
Category : Electronic book
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

Get Book

The impacts of oil palm plantations on forests and people in Papua by Agus Andrianto,Barnabas F Sedik,Habel Waridjo,Heru Komarudin,Krystof Obidzinski Pdf

Oil palm plantations can be a significant contributor to rural livelihoods in Indonesia. The government seeks to capitalize on this commodity and strengthen Indonesia’s position as the global leader in palm oil production by expanding plantation estates. As the land for new plantation investment in Kalimantan and Sumatra becomes scarce, plantation developers are looking east to acquire land in Papua Province. The rising interest in oil palm plantations in Papua presents potential opportunities but also poses challenges.

Author : Tania Murray Li
Publisher : CIFOR
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-07
Category : Electronic book
ISBN : 9786021504796

Get Book

Social impacts of oil palm in Indonesia by Tania Murray Li Pdf

Oil palm plantations and smallholdings are expanding massively in Indonesia. Proponents highlight the potential for job creation and poverty alleviation, but scholars are more cautious, noting that social impacts of oil palm are not well understood. This report draws upon primary research in West Kalimantan to explore the gendered dynamics of oil palm among smallholders and plantation workers. It concludes that the social and economic benefits of oil palm are real, but restricted to particular social groups. Among smallholders in the research area, couples who were able to sustain diverse farming systems and add oil palm to their repertoire benefited more than transmigrants, who had to survive on limited incomes from a 2-ha plot.

Author : Carol J. Pierce Colfer,Bimbika Sijapati Basnett,Marlène Elias
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317355663

Get Book

Gender and Forests by Carol J. Pierce Colfer,Bimbika Sijapati Basnett,Marlène Elias Pdf

This enlightening book brings together the work of gender and forestry specialists from various backgrounds and fields of research and action to analyse global gender conditions as related to forests. Using a variety of methods and approaches, they build on a spectrum of theoretical perspectives to bring depth and breadth to the relevant issues and address timely and under-studied themes. Focusing particularly on tropical forests, the book presents both local case studies and global comparative studies from Africa, Asia, and Latin America, as well as the US and Europe. The studies range from personal histories of elderly American women’s attitudes toward conservation, to a combined qualitative / quantitative international comparative study on REDD+, to a longitudinal examination of oil palm and gender roles over time in Kalimantan. Issues are examined across scales, from the household to the nation state and the global arena; and reach back to the past to inform present and future considerations. The collection will be of relevance to academics, researchers, policy makers and advocates with different levels of familiarity with gender issues in the field of forestry.

Author : Timothy A. Wise
Publisher : The New Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781620974230

Get Book

Eating Tomorrow by Timothy A. Wise Pdf

"A powerful polemic against agricultural technology." —Nature A major new book that shows the world already has the tools to feed itself, without expanding industrial agriculture or adopting genetically modified seeds, from the Small Planet Institute expert Few challenges are more daunting than feeding a global population projected to reach 9.7 billion in 2050—at a time when climate change is making it increasingly difficult to successfully grow crops. In response, corporate and philanthropic leaders have called for major investments in industrial agriculture, including genetically modified seed technologies. Reporting from Africa, Mexico, India, and the United States, Timothy A. Wise's Eating Tomorrow discovers how in country after country agribusiness and its well-heeled philanthropic promoters have hijacked food policies to feed corporate interests. Most of the world, Wise reveals, is fed by hundreds of millions of small-scale farmers, people with few resources and simple tools but a keen understanding of what and how to grow food. These same farmers—who already grow more than 70 percent of the food eaten in developing countries—can show the way forward as the world warms and population increases. Wise takes readers to remote villages to see how farmers are rebuilding soils with ecologically sound practices and nourishing a diversity of native crops without chemicals or imported seeds. They are growing more and healthier food; in the process, they are not just victims in the climate drama but protagonists who have much to teach us all.

Author : Caroko, W., Komarudin, H., Obidzinski, K., Gunarso, P.
Publisher : CIFOR
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Biodiesel fuels industry
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

Get Book

Policy and institutional frameworks for the development of palm oil–based biodiesel in Indonesia by Caroko, W., Komarudin, H., Obidzinski, K., Gunarso, P. Pdf

Author : Marcus Colchester
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Agriculture and state
ISBN : UOM:39015067808827

Get Book

Promised Land by Marcus Colchester Pdf

Author : Damien Short,Martin Crook
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000540796

Get Book

The Genocide-Ecocide Nexus by Damien Short,Martin Crook Pdf

In a world gripped by an ever-worsening ecological crisis there are present and increasing genocidal pressures on many culturally distinct social groups, such as indigenous peoples. This is where the genocide-ecocide nexus presents itself. The destruction of ecosystems, ecocide, can be a method of genocide if, for example, environmental destruction results in conditions of life that fundamentally threaten a social group's cultural and/or physical existence. Given the looming threat of runaway climate change, the attendant rapid extinction of species, destruction of habitats, ecological collapse and the self-evident dependency of the human race on our bio-sphere, ecocide (both "natural" and "manmade") will become a primary driver of genocide. Through nine chapters of cutting-edge research, this book examines specific case studies in geographical settings such as Iraq, Sudan, Nigeria and Brazil, to highlight and analyse the crucial connections and vectors of the genocide-ecocide nexus. This book will be of great value to scholars, students and researchers interested in the ecological crisis, Environmental Justice, the political economy of genocide and ecocide as well as environmental human rights. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of The Journal of Genocide Research.

Author : Luttrell, C., Obidzinski, K., Brockhaus, M., Muharrom, E., Petkova, E., Wardell, A., Halperin, J.
Publisher : CIFOR
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Logging
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

Get Book

Lessons for REDD+ from measures to control illegal logging in Indonesia by Luttrell, C., Obidzinski, K., Brockhaus, M., Muharrom, E., Petkova, E., Wardell, A., Halperin, J. Pdf

Author : Lesley Potter
Publisher : CIFOR
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-26
Category : Electronic book
ISBN : 9786021504925

Get Book

Managing oil palm landscapes by Lesley Potter Pdf

This study comprises a review of oil palm development and management across landscapes in the tropics. Seven countries have been selected for detailed analysis using surveys of the current literature, mainly spanning the last fifteen years. Indonesia and Malaysia are the obvious leaders in terms of area planted and levels of production and export, but also in literature generated on social and environmental challenges. In Latin America, Colombia is the dominant producer with oil palm expanding in disparate landscapes with a strong focus on palm oil-based biodiesel; and small-scale growers and companies in Peru and Brazil offer contrasting ways of inserting oil palm into the Amazon. Nigeria and Cameroon represent African nations with traditional groves and old plantations in which foreign ‘land grabs’ to establish new oil palm have recently occurred.

Author : Alain Rival,Patrice Levang
Publisher : CIFOR
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-17
Category : Electronic book
ISBN : 9786021504413

Get Book

Palms of controversies by Alain Rival,Patrice Levang Pdf

The rapid development of oil palm cultivation feeds many social issues such as biodiversity, deforestation, food habits or ethical investments. How can this palm be viewed as a ‘miracle plant’ by both the agro-food industry in the North and farmers in the tropical zone, but a serious ecological threat by non-governmental organizations (NGOs) campaigning for the environment or rights of local indigenous peoples? In the present book the authors – a biologist and an agricultural economist- describe a global and complex tropical sector, for which the interests of the many different stakeholders are often antagonistic. Oil palm has become emblematic of recent changes in North-South relationship in agricultural development. Indeed, palm oil is produced and consumed in the South; its trade is driven by emerging countries, although the major part of its transformations is made in the North that still hosts the largest multinational agro industries. It is also in the North that the sector is challenged on ethical and environmental issues. Public controversy over palm oil is often opinionated and it is fed by definitive and sometimes exaggerated statements. Researchers are conveying a more nuanced speech, which is supported by scientific data and a shared field experience. Their work helps in building a more balanced view, moving attention to the South, the region of exclusive production and major consumption of palm oil.

Author : Sharma, S.K.,Baral, H.,Laumonier, Y.,Okarda, B.,Komarudin, H.,Purnomo, H.,Pacheco, P.
Publisher : CIFOR
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9786023870776

Get Book

An analysis of multiple ecosystem services under future oil palm expansion scenarios in Central and West Kalimantan, Indonesia by Sharma, S.K.,Baral, H.,Laumonier, Y.,Okarda, B.,Komarudin, H.,Purnomo, H.,Pacheco, P. Pdf

Based on the current land-use policy, spatial planning and maps of oil palm expansion in Indonesia, this study identified three plausible future scenarios; namely business as usual, conservation and sustainable intensification for future development of oi

Author : Rob Cramb,John F. McCarthy
Publisher : NUS Press
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789814722063

Get Book

The Oil Palm Complex by Rob Cramb,John F. McCarthy Pdf

The oil palm industry has transformed rural livelihoods and landscapes across wide swathes of Indonesia and Malaysia, generating wealth along with economic, social, and environmental controversy. Who benefits and who loses from oil palm development? Can oil palm development provide a basis for inclusive and sustainable rural development? Based on detailed studies of specific communities and plantations and an analysis of the regional political economy of oil palm, this book unpicks the dominant policy narratives, business strategies, models of land acquisition, and labour-processes. It presents the oil palm industry in Malaysia and Indonesia as a complex system in which land, labour and capital are closely interconnected. Understanding this complex is a prerequisite to developing better strategies to harness the oil palm boom for a more equitable and sustainable pattern of rural development.

Author : Sophie Chao
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478022855

Get Book

In the Shadow of the Palms by Sophie Chao Pdf

Sophie Chao examines the multispecies entanglements of oil palm plantations in West Papua, Indonesia, showing how Indigenous Marind communities understand and navigate the social, political, and environmental demands of the oil palm plant.