Transfer of the Asian model of oil palm development: from Indonesia to Cameroon

Feintrenie Laurène. 2012. Transfer of the Asian model of oil palm development: from Indonesia to Cameroon. In : Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty : Land governance in a rapidly changing environment, Washington, USA, April 23-26, 2012. s.l. : s.n., 19 p. Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty, Washington, États-Unis, 23 Avril 2012/26 Avril 2012.

Résumé : Agricultural expansion to the detriment of natural forest is a well-known cause and consequence of economic development. Boom crops are exported cash crops developing very quickly in a region, in answer to a high demand on the international market. They may be brought by huge projects generally involving partnerships between governments and agribusiness companies. The livelihoods impacts on local peoples raise concerns among outsiders, who point at the risks of unfairness, manipulation and abuses of the population; examples abound in the oil palm sector in Indonesia, and in rubber development in Southeast China and Laos. Another major concern is the direct consequence of rapid conversion of large areas into plantations, which can have a direct impact on local people's access to land, and can induce the displacement of food crop production, and cause direct or indirect deforestation. Oil palm development in Southeast Asia is the most recent and noteworthy boom crop. Based on literature review, qualitative information gathered during a sharing and learning workshop and speech analysis, and the authors' experience of oil palm development in Indonesia, the paper questions the impacts that a transfer of the Asian model of oil palm development to Cameroon might have.

Classification Agris : E21 - Agro-industrie
F01 - Culture des plantes
E14 - Économie et politique du développement
E16 - Économie de la production

Auteurs et affiliations

• Feintrenie Laurène, CIRAD-ES-UPR BSef (FRA) ORCID: 0000-0003-1621-396X

Source : Cirad - Agritrop (https://agritrop.cirad.fr/565370/)

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