Dendezeiro : African Oil Palm Agroecologies in Bahia, Brazil, and Implications for Development

Watkins, Case

doi:10.1353/lag.2011.0005

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“…Throughout west and Central Africa and as far east as Tanzania, its oils are used in cooking, soap, and as a light fuel. It is favored as a condiment for fufu (Watkins 2011; Martin 1988), can be used to make palm wine, and as a medicine. For example, it is a Yoruba treatment for smallpox (Robins 2021: 21).…”

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“…Throughout West and Central Africa and as far east as Tanzania, its oils are used in cooking, soap, and as a light fuel. It is favored as a condiment for fufu (Watkins 2011;Martin 1988), can be used to make palm wine and as a medicine. For example, it is a Yoruba treatment for smallpox (Robins 2021: 21).In the eighteenth century, European visitors to West Africa began to take note of the "quality of the soap made from palm and palm kernel oils, mixed with ashes from palm fronds" (ibid.…”

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Cultivating “Care”: Colonial Botany and the Moral Lives of Oil Palm at the Twentieth Century’s Turn

Rudge

2022

Comp Stud Soc Hist

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This paper draws on archival research to trace the techniques used by scientists and government officials involved with palm oil at the turn of the twentieth century. For them, mundane practices of “carefulness” were paramount as they worked on collecting, identifying, marketing, and improving the oil palm. But they also applied this so-called care to people: care of the oil palm was thought to presuppose care of the “native,” providing a correction for what were seen as “careless” local manners of cultivation. Colonial techniques of care thus sought to encompass both plants and peoples within contemporary liberal rhetorics of efficiency and moral improvement. This embodies how scientific and political care can interlink through their undersides of control, exploitation, and domination, which remain obscured by narratives of care themselves. Examining these links between commodity histories and scientific techniques is therefore essential for understanding environmental and social concerns regarding oil palm plantations today. An awareness of the afterlives of colonial discourses might encourage a more critical “care” in response to these issues today, challenging taken-for-granted notions of the benefits of corporate care.

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Cultivating “Care”: Colonial Botany and the Moral Lives of Oil Palm at the Twentieth Century’s Turn

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2022

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“…Conocida comúnmente en Brasil como donde, el aceite de palma es famoso por ser uno de los principales ingredientes de la cocina baiana y de la cultura afrodescendente (Watkins, 2011); mientras tanto, en la Amazonia, la producción de la palma africana, básicamente toma dos destinos específicos: para la industria alimentaria y farmacéutica y, más recientemente, para la producción del agrocombustible. La producción de palma en Brasil se centra en la Amazonia, específicamente, en el estado de Pará, responsable por casi 90% de la producción nacional.…”

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Impactos socioambientales del cultivo de la palma africana: los casos mexicano y brasileño

Romero

Albuquerque

2018

Econom. y Socied.

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ResumenCon el presente artículo buscamos analizar los impactos socioambientales de la territorialización de la palma africana (Elaeis guineensis) en México y en Brasil. Dicho cultivo es fuertemente impulsado por empresas agroindustriales y políticas públicas que han construido los respectivos Estados nación. La expansión de las plantaciones de palma africana no es un fenómeno solamente mexicano o brasileño, pues se encuentra presente en diversas partes del mundo, destacando su producción en países asiáticos, africanos y latinoamericanos. En México y Brasil las plantaciones destinadas a la producción del agrocombustible y derivados de la industria aceitera están vinculadas a la supuesta generación de ingresos económicos para los productores. En el caso brasileño, se les ha vinculado a la agenda de "inclusión social y económica" de la agricultura familiar, que presupone algunas políticas públicas, como es el caso del Programa Nacional de Producción y Uso de Biodiesel (PNPB) y el Programa de Producción Sustentable del Aceite de Palma (PPSOP). En el caso mexicano, se ha impulsado a través del Programa de Desarrollo Doi: http://dx

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“…A growing literature is demonstrating that Africans and their descendants contributed not only labor, but knowledge and creativity to the emergence of the colonial landscapes of the Americas (Carney ; Carney and Rosomoff ; Watkins ; Voeks and Rashford ). That scholarship challenges the assumptions that useful knowledge originated only in Europe and diffused to its colonies, that slavery so disempowered people that Africans played passive social roles, and that white males dominated in terms of initiative and creativity.…”

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African Fire Cultures, Cattle Ranching, and Colonial Landscape Transformations in the Neotropics

Sluyter

Duvall

2016

Geographical Review

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Fire regimes emerge partly from human activities that reflect cultural‐ecological knowledge of the relationships among fire, vegetation, grazing, climate, and other variables, as well as social relations. More knowledge of such “fire cultures,” past and present, therefore remains necessary to better understand the causes and persistent consequences of landscape burning. In the neotropics, people have used fire for centuries to manage livestock pastures. Conventional wisdom has long posited that such practices derived solely from antecedent European and indigenous, Native American fire cultures. Analysis of accounts of rangeland burning from throughout the neotropics during colonial times, however, demonstrates that ranchers incorporated African fire cultures and that the timing of burning shifted from early during the dry season in the sixteenth century to late during the dry season by the nineteenth century.

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Dendezeiro : African Oil Palm Agroecologies in Bahia, Brazil, and Implications for Development

Cited by 22 publications

References 60 publications

Cultivating “Care”: Colonial Botany and the Moral Lives of Oil Palm at the Twentieth Century’s Turn

Cultivating “Care”: Colonial Botany and the Moral Lives of Oil Palm at the Twentieth Century’s Turn

Impactos socioambientales del cultivo de la palma africana: los casos mexicano y brasileño

African Fire Cultures, Cattle Ranching, and Colonial Landscape Transformations in the Neotropics

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