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ENTREPREUNARIAL AND FAMILY BUSINESS FARMS IN THAILAND: WHO TOOK ADVANTAGE OF THE RUBBER BOOM?

Journal of Asian Rural Studies, 2018
Following the high rubber prices in the second half of the 2010s, rubber plantations expanded greatly especially in Southeast Asia. Smallholders were important actors of the recent rubber boom.
Benedicte Chambon, Pierre-Marie Bosc, Arunee Promkhambut, Kanchana Duangta   +3 more
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Biodiesel Production from Hevea brasiliensis Seeds: A Systematic Review

Vietnam Journal of Chemistry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Hevea brasiliensis (HB) species, also called the rubber tree, is currently cultivated worldwide for the extraction of latex, an input for rubber production. In addition, its seeds currently have few productive applications, despite their high oil content.
Sara Lüneburger, Giovano Tochetto, Letiére Cabreira Soares, André Lazarin Gallina   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Analisis Pengembangan Perkebunan Karet (Studi pada Perkebunan Karet Rakyat di Kabupaten Tapanuli Selatan Provinsi Sumatera Utara)

Jurnal Agrica, 2018
Smallholder rubber plantations in South Tapanuli still have the opportunity and huge potential , especially when associated with a society that is still largely rely on rubber plants as an option for propagation .
Mukhlis Mukhlis, Edi Batara Mulya Siregar, Sri Fajar Ayu   +2 more
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Human hunters are no substitute for vanishing apex predators

Journal of Animal Ecology, EarlyView.
Our study reveals that human hunters fail to replicate the collective and individual ecological functions of natural apex predators in sustaining biodiversity and promoting stable spatial patterns. These insights are vital for rethinking predator conservation and wildlife management in human‐dominated landscapes.
Ying Geng, Christos Mammides, Ru‐Chuan He, Lin Wang, Kang Luo, Zhong‐Yuan Zhang, Bo Wang, Rui‐Chang Quan   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

How Do “Renewable Products” Impact Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services – The Example of Natural Rubber in China

Journal of Agriculture and Rural Development in the Tropics and Subtropics, 2009
This paper aims to present the implications brought by the expansion of “renewable products” plantation systems in the tropics with cultivation of rubber (Hevea brasiliensis) as a main focus.
Marc Cotter, Konrad Martin, Joachim Sauerborn   +2 more
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Impact of evapotranspiration on ecosystem services values in rubber (Hevea brasiliensis L.) plantations: insights into climate change and rubber plantation expansion in Southwestern China

Frontiers in Agronomy
IntroductionThe rapid expansion of rubber (Hevea brasiliensis) plantations in Southwestern China has transformed forest-dominated landscapes. However, the hydrological consequences of this land-use change have not been comprehensively quantified ...
Zhen Ling, Zhen Ling, Tiyuan Xia, Yuan Su, Guangxiong He, Shixiang Gu, Shixiang Gu, Zhenyu Zhao, Biao Chen   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Rubber Plantations of the Middle East

Journal of the New York Botanical Garden, 1932
(Uploaded by Plazi from the Biodiversity Heritage Library) No abstract provided.
openaire   +2 more sources

The birth of an earth being: ‘Rights of nature’ in Brazilian Amazonia and elsewhere Naissance d'un être de la terre : « droits de la nature » en Amazonie brésilienne et ailleurs

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
In June 2023, the Laje River, located in the traditional territory of the Wari’ Indigenous people in Rondônia, Brazil, was declared a legal entity, an earth being, with rights, following the co‐ordinated action of an indigenous councillor and non‐indigenous activists.
Aparecida Vilaça
wiley   +1 more source

Response of arboreal Collembola communities to the conversion of lowland rainforest into rubber and oil palm plantations

BMC Ecology and Evolution, 2022
Background In the last decades, Southeast Asia has experienced massive conversion of rainforest into rubber and oil palm monoculture plantations. The effects of this land-use change on canopy arthropods are still largely unknown.
Amanda Mawan, Tamara R. Hartke, Louis Deharveng, Feng Zhang, Damayanti Buchori, Stefan Scheu, Jochen Drescher   +6 more
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Fleeting Feminism: The Singapore Women's Federation, Singapore Chinese Left‐Wing Feminism and Anti‐Colonial Nationalism, c. 1950s

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 1955, two female factory workers and trade union leaders, Tan Lee Eng and Kwek Tai Eng, established the Singapore Women's Federation (SWF) to unite women regardless of race, religion or class for the anti‐colonial nationalist struggle. Singapore Chinese left‐wing feminism emerged at the confluence of the nationalist interest in mobilising ...
Yee‐Ting Leong
wiley   +1 more source