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by large private and public companies, it is expected that smallholders will outnumber large estates in the near future …. For policy formulation it is hence important to better understand who these smallholders are and why they have started to … production areas for oil palm, to analyse smallholders' decision making by combining qualitative, quantitative, and experimental …
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prosperity. Our study sites are located in the province of Jambi on the Island of Sumatra, Indonesia, which is... …
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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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, especially in Southeast Asia. In Indonesia, the land area grown with oil palm grew by almost 50% over the last 10 years. While …
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agriculture has affected the social and economic welfare of local communities within the landscape. Indonesia is a country that … export commodity in Indonesia, has been identified as a key driver of deforestation and biodiversity loss in this region. Oil …
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public. Indonesia is one of the countries where such rapid land-use change is happening. In many parts of Indonesia, oil palm … is increasingly replacing forests and also more traditional agricultural crops such as rice and rubber. The drivers of …
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The conversion of biologically rich areas into agricultural land undermines the capacity of these lands to sustain and maintain vital ecosystem functions. This is mostly the case when the conversion includes the simplification to a monoculture system such as that of oil palm. Oil palm grows best...
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