Why do farmers prefer oil palm? lessons learnt from Bungo District, Indonesia

Small-scale Forestry

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 379-396

  Feintrenie, Laurène ^a,b   Chong, Wan Kian ^c   Levang, Patrice ^a,b  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^b CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL FORESTRY RESEARCH   (Indonesia)

^c MONTPELLIER SUPAGRO   (France)

Author keywords

Independent smallholders; Livelihoods impact; Nucleus Estates and Smallholders scheme; Rubber agroforest; Sumatra

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL COOPERATIVE; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; AGROFORESTRY; CROP PRODUCTION; JOINT VENTURE; PROFITABILITY; RUBBER; SMALLHOLDER; VEGETABLE OIL;

BUNGO; GREATER SUNDA ISLANDS; INDONESIA; JAMBI [INDONESIA]; SUMATRA; SUNDA ISLES;

ELAEIS;

EID: 77955230219     PISSN: 18737617     EISSN: 18737854     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11842-010-9122-2     Document Type: Article

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