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