Managing oil palm landscapes
Managing oil palm landscapes

Author: Lesley Potter

Publisher: CIFOR

Published: 2015-05-26

Total Pages: 154

ISBN-13: 6021504925

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This study comprises a review of oil palm development and management across landscapes in the tropics. Seven countries have been selected for detailed analysis using surveys of the current literature, mainly spanning the last fifteen years. Indonesia and Malaysia are the obvious leaders in terms of area planted and levels of production and export, but also in literature generated on social and environmental challenges. In Latin America, Colombia is the dominant producer with oil palm expanding in disparate landscapes with a strong focus on palm oil-based biodiesel; and small-scale growers and companies in Peru and Brazil offer contrasting ways of inserting oil palm into the Amazon. Nigeria and Cameroon represent African nations with traditional groves and old plantations in which foreign ‘land grabs’ to establish new oil palm have recently occurred.

Social impacts of oil palm in Indonesia
Social impacts of oil palm in Indonesia

Author: Tania Murray Li

Publisher: CIFOR

Published: 2015-05-07

Total Pages: 61

ISBN-13: 6021504798

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Oil palm plantations and smallholdings are expanding massively in Indonesia. Proponents highlight the potential for job creation and poverty alleviation, but scholars are more cautious, noting that social impacts of oil palm are not well understood. This report draws upon primary research in West Kalimantan to explore the gendered dynamics of oil palm among smallholders and plantation workers. It concludes that the social and economic benefits of oil palm are real, but restricted to particular social groups. Among smallholders in the research area, couples who were able to sustain diverse farming systems and add oil palm to their repertoire benefited more than transmigrants, who had to survive on limited incomes from a 2-ha plot.

Small-scale Palm Oil Processing in Africa
Small-scale Palm Oil Processing in Africa

Author: Kwasi Poku

Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 72

ISBN-13: 9789251048597

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This publication provides information on the processing of palm oil fruits for the extraction of palm oil and palm kernel oil by small-scale mills in Africa. It is hoped that this will help promote the improvement of yield and quality of palm oil production and contribute to the modernisation of small-scale palm oil factories in Africa.

Harmonizing a Thriving World Palm Oil Industry and Economy Through Genuine Collaboration Between Producers - Malaysia, Indonesia, and West Africa, and Consumers - India and China
Harmonizing a Thriving World Palm Oil Industry and Economy Through Genuine Collaboration Between Producers - Malaysia, Indonesia, and West Africa, and Consumers - India and China

Author: Osayimwense Osa

Publisher:

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 6

ISBN-13:

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Objective: This article probes the state of Africa's palm oil industry and economy today.Methodology/Technique: Today, Malaysia, Indonesia, and West Africa are the world's major producers of palm oil; and India and China, the world's most densely populated countries, are the major consumers. However, why is it that West Africa that is naturally endowed with palm oil is the one that lags behind others in the global production of palm oil? Should this kind of natural endowment and the presence of the major world producers and the biggest consumers of palm oil not spell colossal success for global palm oil industry and economy?Findings: Without an adequate demand for a commodity, supply will be limited, thus resulting in a downward supply curve. On the other hand, if there is a high demand for a commodity like palm oil, then it will be produced in abundance.Novelty: Where and why it has fallen short, and what does need to be done via-a-vis the state of Malaysia's and Indonesia's palm oil sector and the presence of emerging economies like China and India against the backdrop of globalization.

The Oil Palm (Elaeis Guineensis Jacq.)
The Oil Palm (Elaeis Guineensis Jacq.)

Author: Charles William Stewart Hartley

Publisher: Longman Scientific and Technical

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 798

ISBN-13:

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The origin and development of the oil palm industry. The botany of the oil palm. The climates and soils of the oil palm regions. Factors affecting growth, flowering and yield. Oil palm selection and breeding. Germination and the preparation and storage of seed. The raising of nursery seedlings. The preparation of land for oil palm plantations. The establishment of oil palms in the field. The care and maintenance of a plantation. The nutrition of the oil palm. Mixed cropping, rearing livestock among oil palms and tapping for wine. Diseases and pests of the oil palm. The products of the oil palm and their extraction.