This book examines how different countries across Southeast Asia and Latin America are responding to the emergence and expansion of the lucrative, yet controversial, palm oil industry, paying attention to how national policy and governance regimes are shaping the global industry.
With its historic roots in Southeast Asia, oil palm cultivation continues to expand beyond its historical centres. In Latin America, many countries are now developing their own policies to promote and govern oil palm cultivation. This book provides a unique examination of how different countries strive to strike a balance between developmental and environmental concerns, through case studies on Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, Colombia, Brazil, Ecuador, Honduras, and Mexico, and an outlook for the industry's prospects in Africa. This book applies an assemblage approach to draw out lessons on the global challenges posed by the industry and how differing national governance regimes and communities might respond to them. Rather than a single global industry, the book unveils a complex arrangement of national and even local oil palm assemblages, indicating that there is more than one way to do palm oil. In doing so, the book contributes to a better understanding of the drivers and processes that shape the governance of the industry, both in different nations and globally.
This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of the palm oil industry, as well as those interested in natural resource governance, sustainable agriculture, conservation, environmental justice, and environmental and development policy more broadly.
This book examines how different countries across Southeast Asia and Latin America are responding to the emergence and expansion of the lucrative, yet controversial, palm oil industry, paying attention to how national policy and governance regimes are shaping the global industry.
1 Palm oil governance: A global industry assembled and reassembled by
many people in many places
Patrick OReilly, Helena Varkkey and Sarah Ali
Section 1 Southeast Asia
2 Grassroots governance: How assemblage links oil palm, livelihoods, and
local administration in an Indonesian village
Patrick OReilly, Gusti Anshari, Jonay Jovani Sancho, Adi Jaya, Emmy Antang,
Corry Antang, Stephanie Evers, Paul Wilson, Sofie Sjorgesten, Caroline Upton,
and Susan E. Page
3 Palm oil, state autonomy, and assemblage of land use governance in Sarawak,
Malaysia
Helena Varkkey and Sarah Ali
4 Assemblage of oil palm governance and land-use changes in an island
environment: The case study of the Pulot watershed in Palawan Province,
Philippines
Michael D. Pido, May C. Lacao, John Francisco A. Pontillas, Francisca R.
Dimaano and Rodolfo O. Abalus Jr
5 Thailands palm oil: Evolving from domestic smallholder centrism to
sustainable exports
Khor Yu Leng and Nithiyah Tamilwanan
Section 2 Latin America
6 Assemblage of sustainability governance in the Colombian oil palm sector
Paul R. Furumo
7 Making sustainable palm oil? Developmentalist and environmental assemblages
in the Brazilian Amazon
Diana Córdoba, Renata Moreno and Daniel Sombra
8 (De)CO2lonial struggles within green oil palm assemblages: Shady
monoculture entanglements and fissures of hope in Ecuador and its Chocó
borderlands
Julianne A. Hazlewood, Geovanna Lasso, María Moreno Parra and Iñigo Arrazola
Aranzabal
9 Governance arrangements, power differentials, and sustainability in the
Honduran palm oil industry
Ingrid Fromm, Mélanie Feurer and Sebastian Mengel
10 Oil palm production regimes and resistance in Mexicos oil palm
assemblage
Erin C. Pischke
Section 3 Outlook
11 Leveraging palm oil for the socio-ecological transformation of African
emerging economies
Olawale Emmanuel Olayide and Patrick OReilly
12 The golden crop through its assemblages: Understanding and reconciling
national variations of palm oil governance across the tropical belt
Patrick OReilly, Helena Varkkey and Sarah Ali
Patrick OReilly is a Teaching Fellow in Sociology at Liverpool John Moores University, UK. He has over 30 years of applied and research experience in rural development.
Helena Varkkey is an Associate Professor at Universiti Malaya, Malaysia. She works on global palm oil politics and transboundary haze governance in Southeast Asia.
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