185 small-scale farmers which are producing rubber on 260 plots on the island of Sumatra, Indonesia. The Just …

substitutes. The economic model is then applied to the markets for natural and synthetic rubber which is an insightful example … because the natural rubber market has been dominated by three big exporters who have collectively introduced policies to gain … price control for decades. Results of a vector error correction analysis indicate that prices of natural rubber, synthetic …

risk attitudes and time preferences. We conducted incentivised field experiments on Sumatra Island, Indonesia, involving … farmers who cultivate rubber and farmers who cultivated rubber and oil palm trees, i.e., undertook crop diversification. We … were statistically significantly more risk-averse than rubber farmers. However, the time preferences between the two groups …

The recent expansion of oil palm in Indonesia is largely smallholder-driven. However, its socio-economic implications …

implications. In Indonesia, oil palm cultivation is rapidly expanding at the expense of more traditional agricultural crops and … of Indonesia’s recent oil palm boom. Regression models show that oil palm cultivation has positive effects on different … indicators of nutrition and dietary quality. These effects are primarily channeled through income gains that improve smallholders …

randomized controlled trial in oil palm growing villages in Jambi, Indonesia. Our study addresses the underlying mechanisms of … oil palm farmers in Indonesia. While both treatments have a positive and significant effect, the intervention combining …