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Oil Palm Boom, Contract Farming, and Village Development: Evidence from Indonesia

Gatto, Marcel; Wollni, Meike; Rosyani, Ir.; Qaim, Matin - 2015

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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Rubber vs. oil palm: an analysis of factors influencing smallholders' crop choice in Jambi, Indonesia

Schwarze, Stefan; Euler, Michael; Gatto, Marcel; Hein, J.; … - 2015

The rapid expansion of the oil palm area in many tropical countries has raised concerns about its negative impact on local communities, food security, and on the environment. While the expansion of oil palm in early stages was mainly driven by large private and public companies, it is expected...

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Oil palm adoption, household welfare and nutrition among smallholder farmers in Indonesia

Euler, Michael; Krishna, Vijesh; Schwarze, Stefan; … - 2015

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

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Farmer heterogeneity and differential livelihood impacts of oil palm expansion among smallholders in Sumatra, Indonesia

Krishna, Vijesh V.; Euler, Michael; Siregar, Hermanto; … - 2015

The study examines the heterogeneous livelihood impacts of oil palm expansion among smallholder farmers in Jambi Province, Sumatra. Per-capita annual consumption expenditure (PACE) is chosen as a quantitative measure of livelihood status of farm-households. Its determinants are estimated using...

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Comparing the use of risk-influencing production inputs and experimentally measured risk attitude: Do decisions of Indonesian small-scale rubber farmers match?

Moser, Stefan; Mußhoff, Oliver - 2015

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

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Towards an integrated ecological-economic land-use change model

Dislich, Claudia; Hettig, Elisabeth; Heinonen, Johannes; … - 2015

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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Migration and deforestation in Indonesia

Darmawan, Rivayani; Klasen, Stephan; Nuryartono, Nunung - 2015

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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Environmental and Economic Impact of Carbon Credit in Makassar City in Indonesia

Miyata, Yuzuru; Shibusawa, Hiroyuki; Fukuda, Takahide - 2015

is a main city in east Indonesia, by employing a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model. The reason selecting … Indonesia as a study country is that CO2 emissions in Indonesia considering the swiddens and the peaty land are ranked at the …

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Regional Distribution of Creative and Cultural Industries in Indonesia

Fahmi, Fikri Zul - 2015

Indonesia. Our findings show that creative industries develop in particular regions in this country, but the characteristics of … the clustering of ?innovative? creative industries in Indonesia. However, the same conclusion cannot be drawn for long …

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Determinants of local public expenditures on education: Empirical evidence for Indonesian districts between 2005 and 2012

Bischoff, Ivo; Prasetyia, Ferry - 2015

We provide an empirical analysis of the factors that drive expenditures on primary and secondary education in Indonesian districts. We use a panel-data set covering 398 districts between 2005 and 2012. We account for the impact of socio-economic, political and geographical factors on...

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