Governing the Palm Oil Industry

Perspectives from Southeast Asia and Latin America
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-60555-5
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 324 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 655 g

Reihe: Earthscan Studies in Natural Resource Management

This book examines how different countries across Southeast Asia and Latin America respond to the emergence and expansion of the lucrative, yet controversial palm oil industry, paying attention to how national policy and governance regimes are shaping this global industry.

With its historic roots in Southeast Asia, oil palm cultivation continues to expand beyond its historical centres. In Latin America, many countries are now developing their own policies to promote and govern oil palm cultivation. This book provides a unique examination of how different countries strive to strike a balance between developmental and environmental concerns, through case studies on Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, Colombia, Brazil, Ecuador, Honduras, and Mexico, and an outlook for the industry's prospects in Africa. This book applies an assemblage approach to draw out lessons on the global challenges posed by the industry and how differing national governance regimes and communities might respond to them. Rather than a single global industry, the book unveils a complex arrangement of national and even local palm oil assemblages, indicating that there is more than one way to do palm oil. In doing so, the book contributes to a better understanding of the drivers and processes that shape the governance of the industry, both in different nations and globally.

This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of the palm oil industry, as well as those interested in natural resource governance, sustainable agriculture, conservation, environmental justice, and environmental and development policy more broadly.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

O'Reilly, Patrick

Varkkey, Helena

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Umwelt- und Gesundheitspolitik
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltpolitik, Umweltprotokoll
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltschutz, Umwelterhaltung
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Primärer Sektor
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Palm oil governance: A global industry assembled and reassembled by many people in many places

Patrick O’Reilly, Helena Varkkey and Sarah Ali

Section 1 Southeast Asia

2 Grassroots governance: How assemblage links oil palm, livelihoods, and local administration in an Indonesian village

Patrick O’Reilly, Gusti Anshari, Jonay Jovani Sancho, Adi Jaya, Emmy Antang, Corry Antang, Stephanie Evers, Paul Wilson, Sofie Sjorgesten, Caroline Upton, and Susan E. Page

3 Palm oil, state autonomy, and assemblage of land use governance in Sarawak, Malaysia

Helena Varkkey and Sarah Ali

4 Assemblage of oil palm governance and land-use changes in an island environment: The case study of the Pulot watershed in Palawan Province, Philippines

Michael D. Pido, May C. Lacao, John Francisco A. Pontillas, Francisca R. Dimaano and Rodolfo O. Abalus Jr

5 Thailand’s palm oil: Evolving from domestic smallholder centrism to sustainable exports

Khor Yu Leng and Nithiyah Tamilwanan

Section 2 Latin America

6 Assemblage of sustainability governance in the Colombian oil palm sector

Paul R. Furumo

7 Making sustainable palm oil? Developmentalist and environmental assemblages in the Brazilian Amazon

Diana Córdoba, Renata Moreno and Daniel Sombra

8 (De)CO2lonial struggles within “green” oil palm assemblages: Shady monoculture entanglements and fissures of hope in Ecuador and its Chocó borderlands

Julianne A. Hazlewood, Geovanna Lasso, María Moreno Parra and Iñigo Arrazola Aranzabal

9 Governance arrangements, power differentials, and sustainability in the Honduran palm oil industry

Ingrid Fromm, Mélanie Feurer and Sebastian Mengel

10 Oil palm production regimes and resistance in Mexico’s oil palm assemblage

Erin C. Pischke

Section 3 Outlook

11 Leveraging palm oil for the socio-ecological transformation of African emerging economies

Olawale Emmanuel Olayide and Patrick O’Reilly

12 The golden crop through its assemblages: Understanding and reconciling national variations of palm oil governance across the tropical belt

Patrick O’Reilly, Helena Varkkey and Sarah Ali

Über Autor(innen)

Patrick O’Reilly is a Teaching Fellow in Sociology at Liverpool John Moores University, UK. He has over 30 years of applied and research experience in rural development.

Helena Varkkey is an Associate Professor at Universiti Malaya, Malaysia. She works on global palm oil politics and transboundary haze governance in Southeast Asia.