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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"oil palm plantation"”.
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Modeling of oil palm energy surface fluxes and growth for Brazilian Amazon climate conditions
The increase in demand for African palm oil (Elaeis guineensis Jacq.) has caused an increase in production, especially through the opening of new areas. Due to the limitation of lands in Southeast Asia, which is the main producing region in the world, the expansion of oil palm plantation has …
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A Political Ecology of Oil Palm in the Peruvian Amazon
… a growing national and international interest in oil palm production. State legislation and market incentives have accelerated the growth of the industry by promoting large-scale investment and land acquisition. Based on an examination of the opposing discourses of available environmentalist and …
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Prevalence of knowledge, attitude and practice on pesticides safety among oil palm pesticide handlers in Johor
… is made with pesticide residue on plants, soil, and dust particles after spraying.The objective of this study is to assess the level of knowledge, attitudes and practices of pesticide usage among oil palm plantation workers in Johor and to identify the relationship between knowledge, …
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Implementing precision agriculture in the oil palm industry: a case of oil palm management system (OPAMS)
… industry stakeholders, especially those in oil palm industry, reckon the significance of pursuing sustainability due the competitiveness in the industry. Moreover, rigorous requirements which imposed by sustainable organizations and authorities has given rise to the industry stakeholders for …
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Debt as Infrastructure: Contract Farming, Labour, and Oil Palm in Montes de María
… the operation of credit for contracted palm oil production and its impacts on the lives of peasant communities in the Colombian Caribbean. My work presents a detailed account of how credit shapes the operation of contract farming schemes as well as the labouring experiences of peasant …
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Envisioning Agribusiness: Land, Labour and Value in a time of Oil Palm Expansion in Indonesia
… possibilities. Based on original interviews with oil palm plantation workers, plantation company officials, smallholders, and on secondary research, this thesis scrutinises the forms of knowledge and practices that constitute large-scale oil palm agribusiness. While oil palm agribusiness produces …
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Aquaponic biofilter system using heliconia sp. for ammonia removal in lake
… removal in lake near non-point sources such as oil palm plantation, factory and educational building were studied. Aquaponic is a system that mutually integrates aquaculture and plant cultivation. Aquaponic biofilter system also applies phytoremediation mechanism to reduce nutrient. Therefore, …
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Leaf litter ant communities in tropical lowland rain forests in Sabah, Malaysia
… are isolated from each other by large scale oil palm plantations. Biodiversity patterns and responses of the community of leaf litter ants were studied in anthropogenically disturbed habitats and primary forests of different size. In logged over forests, only 70 per cent of the species of a …
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Land use, food production, and the future of tropical forest species in Ghana
… food energy per hectare as the highest-yielding oil palm plantations. In farm mosaics where perennial tree crops dominate, food production and profits were higher, but did not reach those of oil palm plantations. I surveyed birds and trees in forest, farm mosaic, and oil palm plantation, and …
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Remote Sensing Characterization of Ecosystem Structure and Functional Types to Inform on Biodiversity Conservation in the Lowland Chocó Rainforest
… a transitioning gradient from primary forest to plantation agriculture. The chapter assesses the associations between measures of ecosystem structure and functional attributes by examining in-situ collections of vertical air temperature profiles and UAV collections of diurnal land surface …
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The Relationship between Carbon Emissions, Land Use Change and the Oil Palm Industry within Southeast Asia
… up to 2.7 Gt of carbon every year in soils and vegetation. Deforestation and the conversion of tropical peatland soil have contributed to global anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions, as well as significantly hindering tropical ecosystems and the natural carbon sequestration potential …