Governing the Palm Oil Industry

This book examines how different countries across Southeast Asia and Latin America are responding to the emergence and expansion of the lucrative, yet controversial, palm oil industry, paying attention to how national policy and governance regimes are shaping the global industry.

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Patrick O'Reilly is a Teaching Fellow in Sociology at Liverpool John Moores University, UK. He has over 30 years of applied and research experience in rural development.

Helena Varkkey is an Associate Professor at Universiti Malaya, Malaysia. She works on global palm oil politics and transboundary haze governance in Southeast Asia.

Inhalt

1 Palm oil governance: A global industry assembled and reassembled by many people in many places

Patrick O'Reilly, Helena Varkkey and Sarah Ali

Section 1 Southeast Asia

2 Grassroots governance: How assemblage links oil palm, livelihoods, and local administration in an Indonesian village

Patrick O'Reilly, Gusti Anshari, Jonay Jovani Sancho, Adi Jaya, Emmy Antang, Corry Antang, Stephanie Evers, Paul Wilson, Sofie Sjorgesten, Caroline Upton, and Susan E. Page

3 Palm oil, state autonomy, and assemblage of land use governance in Sarawak, Malaysia

Helena Varkkey and Sarah Ali

4 Assemblage of oil palm governance and land-use changes in an island environment: The case study of the Pulot watershed in Palawan Province, Philippines

Michael D. Pido, May C. Lacao, John Francisco A. Pontillas, Francisca R. Dimaano and Rodolfo O. Abalus Jr

5 Thailand's palm oil: Evolving from domestic smallholder centrism to sustainable exports

Khor Yu Leng and Nithiyah Tamilwanan

Section 2 Latin America

6 Assemblage of sustainability governance in the Colombian oil palm sector

Paul R. Furumo

7 Making sustainable palm oil? Developmentalist and environmental assemblages in the Brazilian Amazon

Diana C*órdoba, Renata Moreno and Daniel Sombra*

8 (De)CO2lonial struggles within "green" oil palm assemblages: Shady monoculture entanglements and fissures of hope in Ecuador and its Chocó borderlands

Julianne A. Hazlewood, Geovanna Lasso, María Moreno Parra and Iñigo Arrazola Aranzabal

9 Governance arrangements, power differentials, and sustainability in the Honduran palm oil industry

Ingrid Fromm, Mélanie Feurer and Sebastian Mengel

10 Oil palm production regimes and resistance in Mexico's oil palm assemblage

Erin C. Pischke

Section 3 Outlook

11 Leveraging palm oil for the socio-ecological transformation of African emerging economies

Olawale Emmanuel Olayide and Patrick O'Reilly

12 The golden crop through its assemblages: Understanding and reconciling national variations of palm oil governance across the tropical belt

Patrick O'Reilly, Helena Varkkey and Sarah Ali