Oil palm adoption, household welfare and nutrition among smallholder farmers in Indonesia
2015-04 | working paper. A publication with affiliation to the University of Göttingen.
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Oil palm adoption, household welfare and nutrition among smallholder farmers in Indonesia (EFForTS Discussion Paper Series, 12)
Euler, M. ; Krishna, V. ; Schwarze, S. ; Siregar, H.& Qaim, M. (2015)
Göttingen: SFB 990, University of Göttingen; GOEDOC, Dokumenten- und Publikationsserver der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen.
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- Authors
- Euler, Michael ; Krishna, Vijesh ; Schwarze, Stefan ; Siregar, Hermanto; Qaim, Matin
- Abstract
- The recent expansion of oil palm in Indonesia is largely smallholder-driven. However, its socio-economic implications are under-examined. Analyzing farm-household data from Jambi Province, Sumatra, oil palm adoption is found to have positive consumption and nutrition effects. However, these effects are largely due to farm size expansion that is associated with oil palm adoption. Potential het- erogeneity of effects among oil palm adopters is examined using quantile regressions. While nutrition effects of oil palm adoption are found to be homogenous across quantiles, the effects on non-food expenditure are expressed more strongly at the upper end of the expenditure distribution.
- Issue Date
- April-2015
- Publisher
- SFB 990, University of Göttingen; GOEDOC, Dokumenten- und Publikationsserver der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
- Project
- SFB 990: Ökologische und sozioökonomische Funktionen tropischer Tieflandregenwald-Transformationssysteme (Sumatra, Indonesien)
SFB 990 | C | C07: Einflussfaktoren von Landnutzungswandel und sozioökonomische Auswirkungen für ländliche Haushalte - Organization
- Johann-Friedrich-Blumenbach-Institut für Zoologie und Anthropologie
- Series
- EFForTS Discussion Paper Series
- Extent
- IV, 39
- Language
- English
- Subject(s)
- Non-food cash crops; oil palm expansion; smallholder livelihoods; quantile regression; Indonesia; sfb990_discussionpaperseries
