Impacts of oil palm expansion in Colombia: What do socioeconomic indicators show?

Land Use Policy

Volumn 44, Issue , 2015, Pages 31-43

  Castiblanco, Carmenza ^a,b   Etter, Andrés ^a   Ramirez, Alberto ^a  

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD JAVERIANA   (Colombia)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Agribusiness; Biofuels; Rural development; Social welfare; Staple thesis; Staple trap

Indexed keywords

AGROINDUSTRY; BIOFUEL; CULTIVATION; POVERTY; RURAL DEVELOPMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT; SOCIOECONOMIC INDICATOR; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; VEGETABLE OIL; WELFARE ECONOMICS;

COLOMBIA;

ELAEIS;

EID: 84917693005     PISSN: 02648377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2014.10.007     Document Type: Article

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