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Biblioteca(s): | Embrapa Amazônia Oriental.
Tipo da produção científica: | Artigo em Periódico Indexado
Circulação/Nível: | A - 1
Data corrente: | 14/12/2020
Data da última atualização: | 14/12/2020
Autoria: | BRANDÃO, F.; SCHONEVELD, G.; PACHECO, P.; VIEIRA, I.; PIRAUX, M.; MOTA, D. M. da.
Afiliação: | FREDERICO BRANDÃO, Utrecht University / CIFOR; George Schoneveld, CIFOR; Pablo Pacheco, WWF; IMA VIEIRA, MPEG; Marc Piraux, CIRAD; DALVA MARIA DA MOTA, CPATU.
Título: | The challenge of reconciling conservation and development in the tropics: Lessons from Brazil's oil palm governance model.
Ano de publicação: | 2021
Fonte/Imprenta: | World Development, v. 139, 105268, Mar. 2021.
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.105268
Idioma: | Inglês
Conteúdo: | Due to its controversies, oil palm cultivation has been targeted by regulatory innovations. Among these,transnational efforts?such as the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) and corporate commit-ments to zero deforestation have been highly influential but often tend to overvalue environmental oversocio-economic outcomes. This article discusses to what extent domestic governance models of palm oilproducing countries can be better equipped to reconcile domestic demands such as economic develop-ment and poverty alleviation, and transnational concerns about forest conservation. We do so by lookinginto the Brazilian case, where the government intended to drive oil palm expansion in the Amazonthrough a program launched in 2010 that simultaneously only allowed expansion into already deforestedareas and offered companies incentives to engage smallholder farmers in their supply chains. Our find-ings, drawn from primary research activities and existing literature, indicate that Brazil has managedto avoid deforestation typically associated with oil palm expansion elsewhere. Oil palm establishmentinvolved the conversion of 0.8% and 1.3% of primary forests for corporate and smallholder plantations,respectively. However, the Brazilian government did not manage to optimally enhance smallholder par-ticipation in the sector, as significant differences in performance were observed between farmers, rangingfrom very successful (17%) to highly unsuccessful (12%); and failed to achieve sectoral development andcompetitiveness targets. While some failings can be attributed to external factors such as context,broader domestic governance frameworks and alignments, and private supply chain initiatives, the pro-gram itself did not manage to reconcile social, environmental and economic objectives into a singlecoherent sectoral governance model. Yet, this case study suggests that domestic governance strategiescan enable commodity production in a way that is more coherent with national priorities, at the sametime as preventing deforestation and minimizing social risks more effectively.
Thesaurus Nal: | Palm oils.
Categoria do assunto: | --
Registro original: | Embrapa Amazônia Oriental (CPATU)
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