Collective action, replanting and resilience; Key lessons from 40 years of smallholder oil palm cultivation in the Ophir plantation, Indonesia

Idsert Jelsma, Turinah,, Frédéric Gay, Jean Ollivier and Bruno Rapidel

Agricultural Systems, 2024, vol. 213, issue C

Abstract: Oil palm smallholders often have difficulty implementing good agricultural practices and replanting, and tend to obtain low yields compared to corporate plantations. A frequent strategy to improve the sustainability of smallholder production systems is sustainable intensification, aimed at increasing land productivity and farmers' incomes. To facilitate sustainable intensification, many leading public and private sustainability initiatives require farmers to join farmer organisations as a precondition for certification and assistance, with the objective of achieving advantages of scale.

Keywords: Replanting; Farmer organisations; Heterogeneity; Oil palm; Sustainable intensification; Indonesia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1016/j.agsy.2023.103801

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