The return of the plantation? Historical and contemporary trends in the relation between plantations and smallholdings in Southeast Asia

Bissonnette, Jean‐François; Koninck, Rodolphe De

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“…Currently, governments are still looking at rubber expansion, especially in large-scale plantations, as a possibility to improve the local economy (Bissonnette and Koninck, 2017). In the case of Vietnam, government has been urging farmers to shift their production to rubber plantations (Dao, 2015).…”

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The water-land-food nexus of natural rubber production

Chiarelli

Rosa

Rulli

et al. 2018

Journal of Cleaner Production

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The increasing global demand for natural rubber (100% increase in the last 15 years) is for most part met by Malaysia and Indonesia, and e to a lesser extent e other countries in SouthEast Asia and Africa. The consequent expansion of rubber plantation has often occurred at the expenses of agricultural land for staple crops, particularly in SouthEast Asia, where 90% of the land suitable for agriculture is already under cultivation. Here we investigate the extent to which the ongoing increase in rubber production is competing with the food system and affecting the livelihoods of rural communities living in the production areas and their appropriation of natural resources, such as water. We also investigate to what extent the expansion of rubber plantations is taking place through large scale land acquisitions (LSLAs) and evaluate the impacts on rural communities. Our results show how rubber production needs more than 10 million ha of fertile land and up to 136e149 Â 10 9 m 3 y À1 of freshwater (125 Â 10 9 m 3 y À1 of green water and 11e24 Â 10 9 m 3 y À1 of blue water). These resources would be sufficient to produce enough food to significantly reduce malnourishment in Indonesia, Thailand, and Vietnam if replaced by rice production. Overall, natural rubber production has important environmental, social, and economic impacts. Indeed, despite their ability to bring employment and increase the average income of economically disadvantaged areas, rubber plantations may threaten the local water and food security and induce a loss of rural livelihoods e particularly when the new plantations result from LSLAs that displace semi-subsistence forms of production e thereby forcing the local populations to depend on global food markets.

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The water-land-food nexus of natural rubber production

Chiarelli

Rosa

Rulli

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“…Benefits associated with smallholder farming, such as ease of monitoring the fields and having a direct interest in production (Hayami, 2010;Hazell et al, 2010;Bissonnette and De Koninck, 2017), appear to be only of limited relevance for certain smallholder oil palm farmer types. This highlights the grey area between smallholders as family farmers and as company plantations (Bissonnette and De Koninck, 2017). The grey area was strongly observed in the peatlands, where managers of large farmers often complained about the limited number of workers (mostly migrants who were housed in barracks on the plantation).…”

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“…In Rokan Hulu logging and oil palm companies recently developed the infrastructure necessary to open new lands, and land is now more easily available than labour (Feintrenie et al, 2010a). Although for large companies opportunities for expansion are limited nowadays, there still are plenty of smaller 'empty' lands which appear to be grabbed by relatively small-scale investors (Susanti and Maryudi, 2016;Bissonnette and De Koninck, 2017). Whilst the goal of intensification for land saving appears worthwhile, a Jevons paradox lurks as intensification makes it more interesting to transform land into oil palm.…”

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“…The development of roads and mills by large scale oil palm companies has paved the way for smaller actors to access markets more effectively and to cultivate remaining patches of available land. This has happened particularly in Sumatra (62.5% of Indonesia's 11.3 million ha of oil palms in 2015), where the oil palm boom emerged through corporate expansion, but smallholders currently cover 48.8% of oil palm area (Bissonnette and De Koninck, 2017;DJP, 2017b). In other parts of Indonesia, mostly Kalimantan, large-scale expansion started later, and smallholders cover only 26% of the oil palm area (DJP, 2017b).…”

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“…In this article we explore the use of GAP by diverse groups of independent oil palm smallholders, including plantations which are on (or beyond) the blurry boundaries between family farms and large-scale plantations (McCarthy and Bissonnette and De Koninck, 2017). The farmer typology applied is based on the study of Jelsma et al (2017a), which highlighted that independent smallholders are not a homogenous group.…”

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The return of the plantation? Historical and contemporary trends in the relation between plantations and smallholdings in Southeast Asia

Cited by 5 publications

References 1 publication

The water-land-food nexus of natural rubber production

The water-land-food nexus of natural rubber production

On yield gaps and better management practices in Indonesian smallholder oil palm plantations

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