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Land-use changes have transformed tropical landscapes throughout the past decades dramatically. We describe here an ecologicaleconomic land-use change model to provide an integrated,exploratory tool to analyze how tropical land use and land-use change affect ecological and socio- conomic...
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severity of the trade-offs. This paper takes Jambi province in Indonesia, a current hotspot of rubber and oil palm monoculture …
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non-agricultural employment income for non-farm households in rural Jambi, one of the hotspot regions of Indonesia …'s recent oil palm boom. Data from a recent survey show that employment in rubber and oil palm are important livelihood … components for non-farm households. Employment in oil palm is more lucrative than employment in rubber, so involvement in the oil …
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challenges the common portrayal of the “powerful” company versus the “powerless” landowners/smallholders by using the literature … or everyday acts of resistance. The analysis highlights how CF has created chains of dependency, in which smallholders …
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Indonesia following the crisis of 1997/98. We particu- larly investigate the relative roles of non-farm incomes, productivity … income dynamics in rural Indonesia. Using a unique household panel data set for Central Sulawesi that allows us to control …, Indonesia\'s large scale national household survey. While the overall determinants of rural incomes are very similar across both …
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plantations, but smallholders are also involved significantly. We find that, in spite of significant oil palm expansion, rubber …We investigate land-use dynamics in Jambi, Sumatra, one of the hotspots of Indonesia' recent oil palm boom. Data from a … remains the dominant crop. Most of the oil palm growth takes place on previous fallow and rubber land. Oil palm has not been a …
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Through contract farming schemes between cohorts of farmers and private companies the Indonesian government intended to spur rural economic development. In particular within the oil palm sector, such community-company 'partnerships' are commonplace. Yet, empirical evidence of the success of...
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Indonesia now has the highest deforestation rate in the world, with an average increase of about 47,600 ha per year. As … at risk. Although the literature discussing the political economy of Indonesia commercial's logging is growing, only a … investigates the relationship between recent in-migration and deforestation in Indonesia. By combining available population census …
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Indonesia now has the highest deforestation rate in the world, with an average increase of about 47,600 ha per year. As … biodiversity at risk. Although the literature discussing the political economy of Indonesia commercial's logging is growing, only a … investigates the relationship between recent in-migration and deforestation in Indonesia. By combining available population census …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011450941
of smallholder cultivation, to highlight the challenges smallholders will face when replanting. We find that access to … inputs, finances and know-how differ greatly between groups of smallholders. This will likely affect smallholder's decisions … eligibility for public replanting funds will determine the success of smallholder replanting efforts in Indonesia but are …
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