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No Remedy: Injustice and Constrained Citizenship in Indonesia's Plantation Zone

open access: yesJournal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This contribution to the special issue examines a constrained version of citizenship in Indonesia's plantation zone. When corporations take hold of village land, residents experience devastating dispossession and a profound sense of injustice, yet they lack effective channels through which to claim rights as citizens or secure remedy from the ...
Tania Murray Li, Pujo Semedi
wiley   +1 more source

Diversity of leaf litter ant communities in Ton Nga Chang Wildlife Sanctuary and nearby rubber plantations, Songkhla, Southern Thailand [PDF]

open access: yesSongklanakarin Journal of Science and Technology (SJST), 2005
Large areas of Southern Thailand's former natural rainforest have been replaced by rubber plantations. Despite the fact that rubber plantations dominate the landscape, little is known about its capacity to sustain forest dwelling species.
Tobias O. Bickel, Suparoek Watanasit
doaj  

Strategi Pengembangan Komoditi Karet di Kabupeten Tapanuli Selatan

open access: yesJurnal Agrica, 2018
The rubber is one of the plantation commodity which is the source of livelihood for 1.6 million peasant families, as well as the second largest source of foreign exchange after palm oil and also employers as well as suppliers of various raw materials in ...
Nurhafifah Nurhafifah   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Remaking State Power Through a Paraquat Ban in Malaysia

open access: yesJournal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the role of the state in its ability to enact environmental regulations. Specifically, this study investigates how Malaysian state actors changed, shifted and betrayed various, oftentimes competing interests to ban paraquat, an acutely toxic herbicide.
Caitlyn Sears
wiley   +1 more source

Soil carbon stocks decrease following conversion of secondary forests to rubber (Hevea brasiliensis) plantations.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2013
Forest-to-rubber plantation conversion is an important land-use change in the tropical region, for which the impacts on soil carbon stocks have hardly been studied.
Marleen de Blécourt   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Figures of an Agrarian Nation: Indonesia's Agricultural Census, 1963–2023

open access: yesJournal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Why have Indonesia's decennial agricultural censuses defined their key unit of analysis, the ‘agricultural household’, differently? How do changes to that category shape knowledge production among those who rely on census data? This paper compares definitions of the agricultural household across seven censuses with international ...
Colum Graham
wiley   +1 more source

A meta-review of remote sensing for rubber plantations

open access: yesInternational Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation
The rapid expansion of rubber plantations has led to significant ecological impacts, including deforestation and reduced carbon storage capacity, such as rubber-induced 4.1 million ha of forest loss in Southeast Asia (SEA). Remote sensing, essential for monitoring rubber expansion and supporting initiatives like REDD+ and EU deforestation regulations ...
Zilong Yue, Chiwei Xiao
openaire   +2 more sources

The Construction of Compliance with the European Union Deforestation Regulation in Global Coffee Value Chains

open access: yesRegulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The European Union's Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) obliges the importers and users of seven agricultural commodities to achieve supply chain traceability and prevent deforestation‐linked products from entering the EU market. This paper investigates how companies and producing countries in the coffee sector prepared for EUDR compliance by ...
Janina Grabs
wiley   +1 more source

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