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Shifting patterns of oil palm driven deforestation in Indonesia and implications for zero-deforestation commitments

Land Use Policy Volume 69

Peer-reviewed publication
December, 2017
Indonesia
Forest Landscape Restoration
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Investments
Land Conflicts
Land, Climate Change & Environment
agriculture
deforestation
land use
palm oil industries
research
Oil palm plantations in Indonesia have been linked to substantial deforestation in the 1990s and 2000s, though recent studies suggest that new plantations are increasingly developed on non-forest land. Without nationwide data to establish recent baseline trends, the impact of commitments to eliminate deforestation from palm oil supply chains could therefore be overestimated. We examine the area and proportion of plantations replacing forests across Sumatra, Kalimantan, and Papua up to 2015, and map biophysically suitable areas for future deforestation-free expansion.
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Building an effective coalition to improve forest policy: Lessons from the coastal Tripa peat swamp rainforest, Sumatra, Indonesia

Land Use Policy Volume 99

Peer-reviewed publication
December, 2020
Indonesia
Forest Landscape Restoration
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Investments
Land Conflicts
Land, Climate Change & Environment
advocacy
deforestation
land use
palm oil industries
research
In recent history, Indonesian forest policies have been dominated by deforestation in the name of economic progress. Many actors have expressed concerns about this trend and have tried to reverse it in favour of a more sustainable pathway. From 2004–2017, non-governmental environmental organisations fought for the case of the coastal Tripa peat swamp rainforest in the province of Aceh, Sumatra. Unique in Indonesian history, they managed halting and reversing the deforestation of an area.
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Rethinking “development”: Land dispossession for the Rampal power plant in Bangladesh

Land Use Policy Volume 94

Peer-reviewed publication
May, 2020
Bangladesh
Land Conflicts
Land, Climate Change & Environment
development
dispossession
land use
research
In this article, we critically review the developmental claims made for the construction of the Rampal power plant in southwestern Bangladesh, in the light of evidence about transformations of land control related to this construction project. Land has become a heavily contested resource in the salinity-intruded southwestern coastal area of Bangladesh. Changes in land control for the construction of the Rampal power plant and similar projects have intensified decades of struggles over rights and access to land.
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Property-level direct and indirect deforestation for soybean production in the Amazon region of Mato Grosso, Brazil

Land Use Policy Volume 78

Peer-reviewed publication
November, 2018
Brazil, United States of America
Forest Landscape Restoration
Forest Tenure
Land Conflicts
Land, Climate Change & Environment
deforestation
displacement
land use
land use change
property
research
Brazil’s Soy Moratorium solidified the world’s largest traders’ commitment to stop soybean purchases from production areas deforested after July 2006. The aim was to remove deforestation from the soybean supply-chain and halt one of the main drivers of forest loss in the Amazon biome. In this study, we investigated changes in deforestation at the property-level for the period 2004 to 2014.
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Identifying key factors for mobilising under-utilised low carbon land resources: A case study on Kalimantan

Land Use Policy Volume 70

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2018
Indonesia
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Investments
Land Conflicts
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land use
palm oil industries
research
smallholders
Mobilising under-utilised low carbon (ULC) land for future agricultural expansion helps minimising further carbon stock loss. This study examined the regency cases in Kalimantan, a carbon loss hotspot, to understand the key factors for mobilising ULC land via narrative interviews with a range of land-use actors and complementary desktop analyses.
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Coping with resettlement: A livelihood adaptation analysis in the Mekong River basin

Land Use Policy Volume 60

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2017
South-Eastern Asia
Land Conflicts
Land in post-conflict settings
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land use
research
resettlement
sustainable land management
A major driver of change in the Mekong River basin relates to hydropower development and the consequent changes in landscape and natural resource access regime that it induces. In this paper, we examine how the livelihoods of resettlers evolve following resettlement, and examine the determinants of that process. The study takes place in the context of the Theun Hinboun Expansion Project in Lao PDR. Based on longitudinal household surveys conducted before resettlement as well as 1, 2, and 3 years after resettlement, we identify the process of livelihood adaptation in resettled communities.
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Unpacking Indonesia’s independent oil palm smallholders: An actor-disaggregated approach to identifying environmental and social performance challenges

Land Use Policy Volume 69

Peer-reviewed publication
December, 2017
Indonesia
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Investments
Land Conflicts
Land, Climate Change & Environment
environment
land use
palm oil industries
research
smallholders
Processes of globalization have generated new opportunities for smallholders to participate in profitable global agro-commodity markets. This participation however is increasingly being shaped by differentiated capabilities to comply with emerging public and private quality and safety standards. The dynamics within Indonesia’s oil palm sector illustrate well the types of competitive challenges smallholders face in their integration into global agro-commodity chains.
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Importancia del concepto de personas ambientalmente desplazadas en la política pública de atención al desplazamiento forzado

Reports & Research
Colombia
Land Conflicts
Land, Climate Change & Environment
displacement
environment
land policies
Resaltar la importancia de introducir el concepto de personas ambientalmente desplazadas en la política pública de atención integral al desplazamiento forzado por la violencia, concepto en el cual se reconoce e involucra otros factores asociados al desplazamiento forzado como los factores ambientales asociados a las fumigaciones aéreas adelantadas en el marco de la estrategia contra la droga en Colombia.
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La necesidad de establecer una condición jurídica para quienes deben migrar por causa de los desastres naturales : una realidad que atender desde la perspectiva de los derechos humanos

Reports & Research
February, 2014
Colombia
Land Conflicts
Land, Climate Change & Environment
natural disasters
displacement
El incremento desmedido en el número de desastres naturales, sumado a la frecuencia con que estos ocurren a lo largo del mundo entero, ha evidenciado una de las mayores preocupaciones de los Estados: el desplazamiento forzado de la población por esta causa y la delicada situación de derechos humanos que esto implica, por lo cual los Organismos Internacionales han instado en reiteradas oportunidades a los Estados para actuar conjunta y prontamente para evitar que esta siga siendo una de las causas más altas de desplazamiento.

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