Oil Palm Plantation Expansion LCLUC
Oil palm plantations are well established in North Sumatra (Indonesia) and Johor, Perak, and Pahang (Malaysia) and have expanded significantly into South Sumatra, Jambi, and Lampung (Indonesia), while the frontiers of expansion are in West Kalimantan (Indonesia) and Sabah and Sarawak (Malaysia) (Kessler et al 2007).
This is the eighth chapter of 'Conflict or Consent? The oil palm sector at a crossroads'. To read this chapter please click here . To view the document as a whole please click here.. Since the publication in 2011 of Oil palm expansion in South East Asia: trends and implications for local communities and indigenous peoples by Forest Peoples Programme and Sawit Watch, little significant
Oil Palm Expansion in South East Asia: Trends
This insightful study by Forest Peoples Programme, SawitWatch, Samdhana Institute and the Center for People and Forests (RECOFTC) documents in detail, and for the first time, the way oil palm plantations are now expanding in very different ways across South East Asia as a whole.
Oil Palm Expansion in South East Asia: trends and implications for local communities and indigenous peoples Acknowledgements This study results from a fruitful collaboration between the UK-based human rights organisation, Forest Peoples Programme, the Indonesian palm oil watchdog NGO, SawitWatch, the Philippines-based NGO, Samdhana Institute
PALM OIL AND BIOFUELS POLICY REFORM
PALM OIL AND BIOFUELS POLICY REFORM February 2025 Dear Members of the European Parliament, Forest People's Programme Friends of the Earth Europe Friends of the Siberian Forest Global Forest Coalition vi Palm oil and indigenous peoples in South East Asia. Lancoalition.org. January 2011.Available from:
Palm oil, a versatile vegetable oil already used extensively for food production, cosmetics and animal feed, is increasingly in demand as an agrofuel. In response to this growing market, large-scale oil palm plantations are being developed in Latin America, West Africa and South East Asia.
Palm Oil Controversies, Indigenous Peoples' Rights
“The oil palm industry: A road to poverty reduction,” Philippine Daily Inquirer, February 18, 2013. “Palm oil and indigenous peoples in South East Asia,” Forest Peoples Programme and the International Land Coalition, January 17, 2011. “Land is life: Land rights and oil palm development in Sarawak,” Forest Peoples Programme, November
Founded in 1990, Forest Peoples Programme (FPP) advocates an alternative vision of how forests should be managed and controlled, based on respect for the rights of the peoples who know them best. Working with forest peoples in South America, Central Africa, and South and South East Asia, FPP helps these communities secure
Frontiers The Moral Minefield of Ethical Oil Palm
The environmental impacts of the palm oil industry are widely recognised. Unsurprisingly, many people, including many conservation pundits, consider oil palm a major evil. What is less widely recognized is the extent to which this industry has benefited people. Oil palm development, if well-planned and managed, can provide improved incomes and employment and generate investments in services
Indonesia and Peru harbor some of the largest lowland tropical peatland areas. Indonesian peatlands are subject to much greater anthropogenic activity than Peru’s, including drainage, logging, agricultural conversion, and burning, resulting in high greenhouse gas and particulate emissions. To derive insights from the Indonesian experience, we explored patterns of impact in the two countries
- Are oil palm plantations expanding in South East Asia?
- This insightful study by Forest Peoples Programme, SawitWatch, Samdhana Institute and the Center for People and Forests (RECOFTC) documents in detail, and for the first time, the way oil palm plantations are now expanding in very different ways across South East Asia as a whole.
- Where does oil palm grow in South East Asia?
- ntries, Malaysia and Indonesia, which between them1 This is the introductory chapter of “Oil Palm Expansion in South East Asia: Trends and Implica ions for Local Communiti s and Indigenous Peoples. (FPP & Sawi Watch 2011).supply over 80% of the global market. Papua New Guinea, the third main ex orter, has also received quite a bit of attention.
- Where is the palm oil industry in South East Asia?
- layer in the palm oil industry of South East Asia. Expansion is projected in Leyte and Samar while aggressive expansion is already underway in Magui danao, North Cotabato, Davao and Misamis Oriental. Production is organised in the form of leaseback schemes between Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries (ARBs) and agribusinesses, and outgr
- Where does oil palm expansion take place?
- The study complements better known experiences in Malaysia, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea with new case studies of the processes of oil palm expansion in Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam and the Philippines. Click here to read the entire publication in English or in Bahasa Indonesia .
- Is oil palm expansion at the expense of natural forests?
- The FAO land-cover data show that more than 55% of oil palm expansion during 1990-2005 in these two countries occurred at the expense of natural forests, and the remaining occurred mainly at the expense of existing agricultural land.
- Is oil palm a good crop for indigenous peoples?
- and indigenous peoples are thus also very varied. Comparison of these national experiences suggests that where, as in Thailand and Papua New Guinea, farmers‟ and indigenous peoples‟ lands are somewhat secure and where there is rule of law, oil palm tends to develop modestly as a small-holder crop with better outcomes for local
