Oil palm

ln Southeast Asia, biodiversity-rich forests are lost to logging, tree monocultures, and mining at an unprecedented rate. Impacts of these land-use changes are largely unknown for freshwater biodiversity. Here, I addressed questions pertinent to understanding impacts of land-use…

Precision agriculture (PA) is changing the way people manage crops and soils. As an information-driven system, PA possesses fine-scale diagnostic capabilities that facilitate the application of production inputs so as to match varying crop, soil and other field attributes. Conce…

The thesis examines the social and economic implications of large-scale agribusiness expansion in Indonesia by analyzing how this economic system, as it is envisioned and materialised, reshapes livelihood possibilities. Based on original interviews with oil palm plantation worke…

The oil palm (Elaeis guineensis ) is one of the most rapidly expanding equatorial crops in the world. In the major oil palm-producing countries (e.g., Indonesia and Malaysia), oil palm agriculture poses a significant threat to tropical forests and biodiversity. On the other hand…