Key messages
- Social equity is crucial to sustainable development: equity means ensuring that everyone has the resources they need to secure their well-being now and in the future.
- Oil palm is a profitable crop, but the costs and benefits of its expansion are distributed unevenly according to gender, age, class and community of origin.
- Different social dynamics pertain to large-scale plantations employing wage workers, tied smallholders attached to plantations and independent smallholders planting oil palm on their own land.
- Policy should favor independent smallholders with up to 6 ha of land to optimize distributive outcomes for women and men, young and old, while giving priority to customary landholders.
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DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17528/cifor/006842Altmetric score:
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Publication year
2018
Authors
Language
English
Keywords
oil palms, plantations, policy, research
Geographic
Indonesia
