| Creator:
| Chrisendo, D.N. |
| Creator:
| Krishna, V.V. |
| Creator:
| Siregar, H. |
| Creator:
| Qaim, M. |
| Year:
| 2020 |
| URI:
| https://hdl.handle.net/10883/20972 |
| Format:
| PDF |
| Language:
| English |
| Publisher:
| Elsevier |
| Copyright:
| CIMMYT manages Intellectual Assets as International Public Goods. The user is free to download, print, store and share this work. In case you want to translate or create any other derivative work and share or distribute such translation/derivative work, please contact CIMMYT-Knowledge-Center@cgiar.org indicating the work you want to use and the kind of use you intend; CIMMYT will contact you with the suitable license for that purpose |
| Type:
| Article |
| Country focus:
| Indonesia |
| Place of Publication:
| Amsterdam (Netherlands) |
| Volume:
| 118 |
| DOI:
| 10.1016/j.forpol.2020.102245 |
| Keywords:
| Oil Palm |
| Keywords:
| Smallholder Livelihoods |
| Keywords:
| Gender Roles |
| Keywords:
| Dietary Quality |
| Description:
| Many tropical countries are experiencing massive land-use change with profound environmental and socioeconomic implications. In Indonesia, oil palm cultivation is rapidly expanding at the expense of more traditional crops – such as rubber and rice – and forest land. While environmental effects of the oil palm boom were analyzed in many studies, much less is known about social effects. Here, we analyze how oil palm cultivation by smallholder farmers is associated with nutrition through changing income and gender roles. The analysis uses panel data collected in Jambi Province, Sumatra, one of the hotspots of Indonesia's recent oil palm boom. Regression models show that oil palm cultivation is positively associated with nutrition and dietary quality. These associations are related to income gains that improve smallholders' access to nutritious foods from the market. Oil palm requires less labor than traditional crops, so a switch to oil palm could potentially free family labor for off-farm economic activities. We find that oil palm cultivation is positively associated with off-farm employment of male but not female household members, which may be related to unequal opportunities and social norms. Independent of oil palm cultivation, female off-farm employment is positively associated with nutrition, even after controlling for household income. |
| Agrovoc:
| ELAEIS GUINEENSIS |
| Agrovoc:
| SMALLHOLDERS |
| Agrovoc:
| LIVELIHOODS |
| Agrovoc:
| GENDER |
| Agrovoc:
| NUTRITION |
| Agrovoc:
| DIET |
| Agrovoc:
| OFF FARM EMPLOYMENT |
| Related Datasets:
| https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1389934119305532?via%3Dihub#s0105 |
| ISSN:
| 1389-9341 |
| Journal:
| Forest Policy and Economics |
