Oil Palm Expansion in South East Asia: Trends and implications for local communities and indigenous peoples
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. 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.
Oil Palm Expansion in South East Asia: Trends and implications for local communities and indigenous peoples is available as individual chapters for quick download at the following links:
Introduction - Oil Palm Expansion in South East Asia: an overview
Chapter 1: Oil palm development in Thailand: economic, social and environmental considerations
Chapter 2: Palm oil development in Cambodia
Chapter 3: Oil Palm Development in Vietnam
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Overview
- Resource Type:
- Reports
- Publication date:
- 18 November 2011
- Region:
- Indonesia Malaysia Philippines Thailand
- Programmes:
- Supply Chains and Trade
- Partners:
- Sawit Watch Samdhana Institute
- Translations:
- Indonesian: Ekspansi Kelapa Sawit di Asia Tenggara: Kecenderungan dan implikasi bagi masyarakat lokal dan masyarakat adat