The impact of oil palm on rural livelihoods and tropical forest landscapes in Latin America

A Castellanos-Navarrete, F de Castro… - Journal of Rural Studies, 2021 - Elsevier
Does oil palm boost agricultural growth and reduce rural poverty, or is it a threat to rural
livelihoods and tropical forest landscapes? This paper introduces a Special Issue on this …

[HTML][HTML] Projecting socio-economic impacts of bioenergy: Current status and limitations of ex-ante quantification methods

MLJ Brinkman, B Wicke, APC Faaij… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2019 - Elsevier
The socio-economic effects of bio-energy are not unequivocally positive, although it is one of
the main arguments for supporting its expansion. An ex-ante quantification of the impacts is …

Evaluating the livelihood impacts of a large-scale agricultural investment: Lessons from the case of a biofuel production company in northern Sierra Leone

P Bottazzi, D Crespo, LO Bangura, S Rist - Land use policy, 2018 - Elsevier
Large-scale agricultural investment (LSAI) involves complex trade-offs with regard to West
African farmers' livelihoods. Our research presents a robust impact evaluation of a biofuel …

Oil palm expansion without enclosure: smallholders and environmental narratives

A Castellanos-Navarrete, K Jansen - Global Land Grabbing and …, 2017 - taylorfrancis.com
Recent debates on land grabbing and biofuels tend to link oil palm expansion to rural
dispossession, environmental degradation and rural resistance. In this paper, we examine to …

Transformation of local people's property rights induced by new town development (case studies in Peri-Urban areas in Indonesia)

RA Pratomo, DAA Samsura, E van der Krabben - Land, 2020 - mdpi.com
New town development as a form of large-scale development is not a new phenomenon,
particularly in develo** countries. This development mainly takes place in peri-urban …

Does community-based tenure prevent land grabbing? The oil palm case in Mexico

A Castellanos-Navarrete, MA Colocho-Rodríguez… - Applied …, 2024 - Elsevier
The recent oil palm expansion has resulted in significant land losses for rural communities
globally, raising concerns about food security, poverty, and the loss of common resources …

Compensation assessment practices in expropriation of customary land: Evidence from Malawi

L Kabanga, MM Mooya - Land Use Policy, 2023 - Elsevier
Expropriation of various properties including customary ones requires compensation for the
resultant losses suffered. Such compensation is valued based on market value, which …

The global food system, agro-industrialization and governance: alternative conceptions for sub-Saharan Africa

S Hamann - Globalizations, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Global food security challenges give rise to contentious debates. Conventional approaches
to agricultural development call for capital-intensive industrial-scale farming to increase …

Alternative discourses around the governance of food security: A case study from Ethiopia

TS Jiren, I Dorresteijn, J Hanspach, J Schultner… - Global Food …, 2020 - Elsevier
Global discourses on the governance of food security span competing approaches. For
example, a neoliberal approach advocates commercialized, industrial agriculture, while food …

[HTML][HTML] Effects of large-scale acquisition on food insecurity in Sierra Leone

GT Yengoh, FA Armah - Sustainability, 2015 - mdpi.com
The recent phenomenon of large-scale acquisition of land for a variety of investment
purposes has raised deep concerns over the food security, livelihood and socio-economic …