Denial of long-term issues with agriculture on tropical peatlands will have devastating consequences

The first International Peat Congress (IPC) held in the tropics – in Kuching (Malaysia) – brought together over 1000 international peatland scientists and industrial partners from across the world (‘International Peat Congress with over 1000 participants!’, 2016). The congress covered all aspects of...

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Autores principales: Wijedasa, L.S., Jauhiainen, J., Könönen, M., Lampela, M., Vasander, H., LeBlanc, M-C., Evers, S., Smith, T.E.L., Yule, C.M., Varkkey, H., Lupascu, M., Parish, F., Singleton, I., Clements, G.R., Aziz, S.A., Harrison, M.E., Cheyne, S., Anshari, G.Z., Meijaard, E., Goldstein, J.E., Waldron, S., Hergoualc'h, Kristell, Dommain, R., Frolking, S., Evans, C.D., Posa, M.R.C., Glaser, P.H., Suryadiputra, N., Lubis, R., Santika, T., Padfield, R., Kurnianto, S., Hadisiswoyo, P., Lim, T.W., Page, S.E., Gauci, V., Meer, P.J. van der, Buckland, H., Garnier, F., Samuel, M.K., Kim Choo, L.N.L., O'Reilly, P., Warren, M., Suksuwan, S., Sumarga, E., Jain, A., Laurance, W.F., Couwenberg, J., Joosten, H., Vernimmen, R., Hooijer, A., Malins, C., Cochrane, M.A., Perumal, B., Siegert, F., Peh, K.S.H., Comeau, Louis Pierre, Verchot, Louis V., Harvey, C.F., Cobb, A., Jaafar, Z., Wösten, H., Manuri, S., Müller, M., Giesen, W., Phelps, J., Ding, L.Y., Silvius, M., Wedeux, B.M.M., Hoyt, A., Osaki, M., Takashi, H., Takahashi, H., Kohyama, T.S., Haraguchi, A., Nugroho, N.P., Coomes, David A., Le, P.Q., Dohong, A., Gunawan, H., Gaveau, D.L.A., Langner, A., Lim, F.K.S., Edwards, D.P., Giam, X., Werf, G. van der, Carmenta, R., Verwer, C.C., Gibson, L., Grandois, L., Graham, Laura L.B., Regalino, J., Wich, S.A., Rieley, J., Kettridge, N., Brown, C., Pirard, R., Moore, S., Capilla, B.R., Ballhorn, U., Hua, C.H., Hoscilo, A., Lohberger, S., Evans, T.A., Yulianti, N., Blackham, G., Onrizal, O., Husson, S., Murdiyarso, Daniel, Pangala, S., Cole, L.E.S., Tacconi, L., Segah, H., Tonoto, P., Lee, J.S.H., Schmilewski, G., Wulffraat, S., Putra, E.I., Cattau, M.E., Clymo, R.S., Morrison, R., Mijahid, A., Miettinen, J., Soo, C.L., Valpola, S., Wilson, D., D'Arcy, L., Gerding, M., Sundari, S., Thorton, S.A., Kalisz, B., Chapman, S.J., Mat Su, A.S., Basuki, I., Itoh, M., Traeholt, C., Sloan, S., Sayok, A.K., Andersen, R.
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author Wijedasa, L.S.
Jauhiainen, J.
Könönen, M.
Lampela, M.
Vasander, H.
LeBlanc, M-C.
Evers, S.
Smith, T.E.L.
Yule, C.M.
Varkkey, H.
Lupascu, M.
Parish, F.
Singleton, I.
Clements, G.R.
Aziz, S.A.
Harrison, M.E.
Cheyne, S.
Anshari, G.Z.
Meijaard, E.
Goldstein, J.E.
Waldron, S.
Hergoualc'h, Kristell
Dommain, R.
Frolking, S.
Evans, C.D.
Posa, M.R.C.
Glaser, P.H.
Suryadiputra, N.
Lubis, R.
Santika, T.
Padfield, R.
Kurnianto, S.
Hadisiswoyo, P.
Lim, T.W.
Page, S.E.
Gauci, V.
Meer, P.J. van der
Buckland, H.
Garnier, F.
Samuel, M.K.
Kim Choo, L.N.L.
O'Reilly, P.
Warren, M.
Suksuwan, S.
Sumarga, E.
Jain, A.
Laurance, W.F.
Couwenberg, J.
Joosten, H.
Vernimmen, R.
Hooijer, A.
Malins, C.
Cochrane, M.A.
Perumal, B.
Siegert, F.
Peh, K.S.H.
Comeau, Louis Pierre
Verchot, Louis V.
Harvey, C.F.
Cobb, A.
Jaafar, Z.
Wösten, H.
Manuri, S.
Müller, M.
Giesen, W.
Phelps, J.
Ding, L.Y.
Silvius, M.
Wedeux, B.M.M.
Hoyt, A.
Osaki, M.
Takashi, H.
Takahashi, H.
Kohyama, T.S.
Haraguchi, A.
Nugroho, N.P.
Coomes, David A.
Le, P.Q.
Dohong, A.
Gunawan, H.
Gaveau, D.L.A.
Langner, A.
Lim, F.K.S.
Edwards, D.P.
Giam, X.
Werf, G. van der
Carmenta, R.
Verwer, C.C.
Gibson, L.
Grandois, L.
Graham, Laura L.B.
Regalino, J.
Wich, S.A.
Rieley, J.
Kettridge, N.
Brown, C.
Pirard, R.
Moore, S.
Capilla, B.R.
Ballhorn, U.
Hua, C.H.
Hoscilo, A.
Lohberger, S.
Evans, T.A.
Yulianti, N.
Blackham, G.
Onrizal, O.
Husson, S.
Murdiyarso, Daniel
Pangala, S.
Cole, L.E.S.
Tacconi, L.
Segah, H.
Tonoto, P.
Lee, J.S.H.
Schmilewski, G.
Wulffraat, S.
Putra, E.I.
Cattau, M.E.
Clymo, R.S.
Morrison, R.
Mijahid, A.
Miettinen, J.
Soo, C.L.
Valpola, S.
Wilson, D.
D'Arcy, L.
Gerding, M.
Sundari, S.
Thorton, S.A.
Kalisz, B.
Chapman, S.J.
Mat Su, A.S.
Basuki, I.
Itoh, M.
Traeholt, C.
Sloan, S.
Sayok, A.K.
Andersen, R.
author_browse Andersen, R.
Anshari, G.Z.
Aziz, S.A.
Ballhorn, U.
Basuki, I.
Blackham, G.
Brown, C.
Buckland, H.
Capilla, B.R.
Carmenta, R.
Cattau, M.E.
Chapman, S.J.
Cheyne, S.
Clements, G.R.
Clymo, R.S.
Cobb, A.
Cochrane, M.A.
Cole, L.E.S.
Comeau, Louis Pierre
Coomes, David A.
Couwenberg, J.
D'Arcy, L.
Ding, L.Y.
Dohong, A.
Dommain, R.
Edwards, D.P.
Evans, C.D.
Evans, T.A.
Evers, S.
Frolking, S.
Garnier, F.
Gauci, V.
Gaveau, D.L.A.
Gerding, M.
Giam, X.
Gibson, L.
Giesen, W.
Glaser, P.H.
Goldstein, J.E.
Graham, Laura L.B.
Grandois, L.
Gunawan, H.
Hadisiswoyo, P.
Haraguchi, A.
Harrison, M.E.
Harvey, C.F.
Hergoualc'h, Kristell
Hooijer, A.
Hoscilo, A.
Hoyt, A.
Hua, C.H.
Husson, S.
Itoh, M.
Jaafar, Z.
Jain, A.
Jauhiainen, J.
Joosten, H.
Kalisz, B.
Kettridge, N.
Kim Choo, L.N.L.
Kohyama, T.S.
Kurnianto, S.
Könönen, M.
Lampela, M.
Langner, A.
Laurance, W.F.
Le, P.Q.
LeBlanc, M-C.
Lee, J.S.H.
Lim, F.K.S.
Lim, T.W.
Lohberger, S.
Lubis, R.
Lupascu, M.
Malins, C.
Manuri, S.
Mat Su, A.S.
Meer, P.J. van der
Meijaard, E.
Miettinen, J.
Mijahid, A.
Moore, S.
Morrison, R.
Murdiyarso, Daniel
Müller, M.
Nugroho, N.P.
O'Reilly, P.
Onrizal, O.
Osaki, M.
Padfield, R.
Page, S.E.
Pangala, S.
Parish, F.
Peh, K.S.H.
Perumal, B.
Phelps, J.
Pirard, R.
Posa, M.R.C.
Putra, E.I.
Regalino, J.
Rieley, J.
Samuel, M.K.
Santika, T.
Sayok, A.K.
Schmilewski, G.
Segah, H.
Siegert, F.
Silvius, M.
Singleton, I.
Sloan, S.
Smith, T.E.L.
Soo, C.L.
Suksuwan, S.
Sumarga, E.
Sundari, S.
Suryadiputra, N.
Tacconi, L.
Takahashi, H.
Takashi, H.
Thorton, S.A.
Tonoto, P.
Traeholt, C.
Valpola, S.
Varkkey, H.
Vasander, H.
Verchot, Louis V.
Vernimmen, R.
Verwer, C.C.
Waldron, S.
Warren, M.
Wedeux, B.M.M.
Werf, G. van der
Wich, S.A.
Wijedasa, L.S.
Wilson, D.
Wulffraat, S.
Wösten, H.
Yule, C.M.
Yulianti, N.
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Jauhiainen, J.
Könönen, M.
Lampela, M.
Vasander, H.
LeBlanc, M-C.
Evers, S.
Smith, T.E.L.
Yule, C.M.
Varkkey, H.
Lupascu, M.
Parish, F.
Singleton, I.
Clements, G.R.
Aziz, S.A.
Harrison, M.E.
Cheyne, S.
Anshari, G.Z.
Meijaard, E.
Goldstein, J.E.
Waldron, S.
Hergoualc'h, Kristell
Dommain, R.
Frolking, S.
Evans, C.D.
Posa, M.R.C.
Glaser, P.H.
Suryadiputra, N.
Lubis, R.
Santika, T.
Padfield, R.
Kurnianto, S.
Hadisiswoyo, P.
Lim, T.W.
Page, S.E.
Gauci, V.
Meer, P.J. van der
Buckland, H.
Garnier, F.
Samuel, M.K.
Kim Choo, L.N.L.
O'Reilly, P.
Warren, M.
Suksuwan, S.
Sumarga, E.
Jain, A.
Laurance, W.F.
Couwenberg, J.
Joosten, H.
Vernimmen, R.
Hooijer, A.
Malins, C.
Cochrane, M.A.
Perumal, B.
Siegert, F.
Peh, K.S.H.
Comeau, Louis Pierre
Verchot, Louis V.
Harvey, C.F.
Cobb, A.
Jaafar, Z.
Wösten, H.
Manuri, S.
Müller, M.
Giesen, W.
Phelps, J.
Ding, L.Y.
Silvius, M.
Wedeux, B.M.M.
Hoyt, A.
Osaki, M.
Takashi, H.
Takahashi, H.
Kohyama, T.S.
Haraguchi, A.
Nugroho, N.P.
Coomes, David A.
Le, P.Q.
Dohong, A.
Gunawan, H.
Gaveau, D.L.A.
Langner, A.
Lim, F.K.S.
Edwards, D.P.
Giam, X.
Werf, G. van der
Carmenta, R.
Verwer, C.C.
Gibson, L.
Grandois, L.
Graham, Laura L.B.
Regalino, J.
Wich, S.A.
Rieley, J.
Kettridge, N.
Brown, C.
Pirard, R.
Moore, S.
Capilla, B.R.
Ballhorn, U.
Hua, C.H.
Hoscilo, A.
Lohberger, S.
Evans, T.A.
Yulianti, N.
Blackham, G.
Onrizal, O.
Husson, S.
Murdiyarso, Daniel
Pangala, S.
Cole, L.E.S.
Tacconi, L.
Segah, H.
Tonoto, P.
Lee, J.S.H.
Schmilewski, G.
Wulffraat, S.
Putra, E.I.
Cattau, M.E.
Clymo, R.S.
Morrison, R.
Mijahid, A.
Miettinen, J.
Soo, C.L.
Valpola, S.
Wilson, D.
D'Arcy, L.
Gerding, M.
Sundari, S.
Thorton, S.A.
Kalisz, B.
Chapman, S.J.
Mat Su, A.S.
Basuki, I.
Itoh, M.
Traeholt, C.
Sloan, S.
Sayok, A.K.
Andersen, R.
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description The first International Peat Congress (IPC) held in the tropics – in Kuching (Malaysia) – brought together over 1000 international peatland scientists and industrial partners from across the world (‘International Peat Congress with over 1000 participants!’, 2016). The congress covered all aspects of peatland ecosystems and their management, with a strong focus on the environmental, societal and economic challenges associated with contemporary large-scale agricultural conversion of tropical peat. However, recent encouraging developments towards better management of tropical peatlands have been undermined by misleading newspaper headlines and statements first published during the conference. Articles in leading regional newspapers (‘Oil palm planting on peat soil handled well, says Uggah, 2016b; Cheng & Sibon, 2016; Nurbianto, 2016a,b; Wong, 2016) widely read across the region portrayed a general consensus, in summary of the conference, that current agricultural practices in peatland areas, such as oil palm plantations, do not have a negative impact on the environment. This view is not shared by many scientists or supported by the weight of evidence that business-as-usual management is not sustainable for tropical peatland agriculture. Peer-reviewed scientific studies published over the last 19 years, as reflected in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Wetland Supplement on greenhouse gas inventories, affirm that drained tropical peatlands lose considerable amounts of carbon at high rates (Drösler et al., 2014). Tropical peat swamp forests have sequestered carbon for millennia, storing a globally significant reservoir below ground in the peat (Page et al., 2011; Dommain et al., 2014). However, contemporary agriculture techniques on peatlands heavily impact this system through land clearance, drainage and fertilization, a process that too often involves fire. Along with biodiversity losses driven by deforestation (Koh et al., 2011; Posa et al., 2011; Giam et al., 2012), the carbon stored in drained peatlands is rapidly lost through oxidation, dissolution and fire (Couwenberg et al., 2009; Hirano et al., 2012; Ramdani & Hino, 2013; Schrier-Uijl et al., 2013; Carlson et al., 2015; Warren et al., 2016). Tropical peat fires are a major contributor to global greenhouse gas emissions and produce transboundary haze causing significant impacts on human health, regional economies and ecosystems (Page et al., 2002; Marlier et al., 2012; Jaafar & Loh, 2014; Chisholm et al., 2016; Huijnen et al., 2016; Stockwell et al., 2016). With future El-Niño events predicted to increase in frequency and severity (Cai et al., 2014) and with fire prevalence now decoupled from drought years (Gaveau et al., 2014), future large-scale fire and haze events are imminent given the extensive areas of now-drained fire-prone drained peatlands (Kettridge et al., 2015; Turetsky et al., 2015; Page & Hooijer, 2016). In reality, just how much of the estimated 69 gigatonnes of carbon (Page et al., 2011) stored in South-East Asian tropical peatlands is being lost due to agricultural operations under the current management regime is still uncertain. Of great concern is that none of the agricultural management methods applied to date have been shown to prevent the loss of peat and the associated subsidence of the peatland surface following drainage (Wösten et al., 1997; Melling et al., 2008; Hooijer et al., 2012; Evers et al., 2016). Recent projections suggest that large areas of currently drained coastal peatlands will become undrainable and progressively be subjected to longer periods of inundation by river and ultimately sea water (Hooijer et al., 2015a,b; Sumarga et al., 2016). With growing risk of saltwater intrusion, agriculture in these coastal lands will become increasingly untenable, calling into question the very notion of ‘long-term sustainability of tropical peatland agriculture’. A more accurate view of drained peatland agriculture is that of an extractive industry, in which a finite resource (the peat) is ‘mined’ to produce food, fibre and fuel, driven by global demand. In developing countries with growing populations, there are strong socio-economic arguments for exploiting this resource to support local livelihoods and broader economic development (Mizuno et al., 2016). However, we must accept that ongoing peat loss is inevitable under this scenario. Science-based measures towards improved management, including limitations on the extent of plantation development, can be used to minimize the rate of this peat loss (President of Indonesia, 2011). Such an evidence-based position, supported with data and necessary legal instruments, is needed for sustainable futures. The scientifically unfounded belief that drained peatland agriculture can be made ‘sustainable’, and peat loss can be halted, via unproven methods such as peat compaction debilitates the effort to find sustainable possibilities. To a large extent, the issues surrounding unsustainable peatland management have now been recognized by sections of industry (Wilmar, 2013; APP, 2014; Cargill Inc., 2014; Mondelēz International, 2014; Sime Darby Plantation, 2014; APRIL, 2015; Olam International, 2015), government (President of Indonesia, 2014, 2016, Mongabay, 2015; Mongabay Haze Beat, 2015; Hermansyah, 2016) and consumers (Wijedasa et al., 2015). In recognition of the constraints and risks of peatland development, many large and experienced oil palm and pulpwood companies have halted further development on peat and introduced rigorous management requirements for existing peatland plantations (Lim et al., 2012). However, the denial of the empirical basis calling for improved peatland management remains persistent in influential policy spaces, as illustrated by the articles reporting on the conference (‘Oil palm planting on peat soil handled well, says Uggah, 2016b; Cheng & Sibon, 2016; Nurbianto, 2016a,b). The search for more responsible tropical peatland agriculture techniques includes promising recent initiatives to develop methods to cultivate crops on peat under wet conditions (Giesen, 2015; Dommain et al., 2016; Mizuno et al., 2016). While a truly sustainable peatland agriculture method does not yet exist, the scientific community and industry are collaborating in the search for solutions (International Peat Society, 2016), and for interim measures to mitigate ongoing rates of peat loss under existing plantations. Failing to recognize the devastating consequences of the current land use practices on peat soils and failing to work together to address them could mean that the next generation will have to deal with an irreversibly altered, dysfunctional landscape where neither environment nor society, globally or locally, will be winners. Open access facilitated by Greifswald Mire Centre and Department of Forestry Sciences, University of Helsinki.
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spelling CGSpace934662025-09-25T13:01:42Z Denial of long-term issues with agriculture on tropical peatlands will have devastating consequences Wijedasa, L.S. Jauhiainen, J. Könönen, M. Lampela, M. Vasander, H. LeBlanc, M-C. Evers, S. Smith, T.E.L. Yule, C.M. Varkkey, H. Lupascu, M. Parish, F. Singleton, I. Clements, G.R. Aziz, S.A. Harrison, M.E. Cheyne, S. Anshari, G.Z. Meijaard, E. Goldstein, J.E. Waldron, S. Hergoualc'h, Kristell Dommain, R. Frolking, S. Evans, C.D. Posa, M.R.C. Glaser, P.H. Suryadiputra, N. Lubis, R. Santika, T. Padfield, R. Kurnianto, S. Hadisiswoyo, P. Lim, T.W. Page, S.E. Gauci, V. Meer, P.J. van der Buckland, H. Garnier, F. Samuel, M.K. Kim Choo, L.N.L. O'Reilly, P. Warren, M. Suksuwan, S. Sumarga, E. Jain, A. Laurance, W.F. Couwenberg, J. Joosten, H. Vernimmen, R. Hooijer, A. Malins, C. Cochrane, M.A. Perumal, B. Siegert, F. Peh, K.S.H. Comeau, Louis Pierre Verchot, Louis V. Harvey, C.F. Cobb, A. Jaafar, Z. Wösten, H. Manuri, S. Müller, M. Giesen, W. Phelps, J. Ding, L.Y. Silvius, M. Wedeux, B.M.M. Hoyt, A. Osaki, M. Takashi, H. Takahashi, H. Kohyama, T.S. Haraguchi, A. Nugroho, N.P. Coomes, David A. Le, P.Q. Dohong, A. Gunawan, H. Gaveau, D.L.A. Langner, A. Lim, F.K.S. Edwards, D.P. Giam, X. Werf, G. van der Carmenta, R. Verwer, C.C. Gibson, L. Grandois, L. Graham, Laura L.B. Regalino, J. Wich, S.A. Rieley, J. Kettridge, N. Brown, C. Pirard, R. Moore, S. Capilla, B.R. Ballhorn, U. Hua, C.H. Hoscilo, A. Lohberger, S. Evans, T.A. Yulianti, N. Blackham, G. Onrizal, O. Husson, S. Murdiyarso, Daniel Pangala, S. Cole, L.E.S. Tacconi, L. Segah, H. Tonoto, P. Lee, J.S.H. Schmilewski, G. Wulffraat, S. Putra, E.I. Cattau, M.E. Clymo, R.S. Morrison, R. Mijahid, A. Miettinen, J. Soo, C.L. Valpola, S. Wilson, D. D'Arcy, L. Gerding, M. Sundari, S. Thorton, S.A. Kalisz, B. Chapman, S.J. Mat Su, A.S. Basuki, I. Itoh, M. Traeholt, C. Sloan, S. Sayok, A.K. Andersen, R. tropical peatlands agriculture sustainability emission subsidies oil palms acacias The first International Peat Congress (IPC) held in the tropics – in Kuching (Malaysia) – brought together over 1000 international peatland scientists and industrial partners from across the world (‘International Peat Congress with over 1000 participants!’, 2016). The congress covered all aspects of peatland ecosystems and their management, with a strong focus on the environmental, societal and economic challenges associated with contemporary large-scale agricultural conversion of tropical peat. However, recent encouraging developments towards better management of tropical peatlands have been undermined by misleading newspaper headlines and statements first published during the conference. Articles in leading regional newspapers (‘Oil palm planting on peat soil handled well, says Uggah, 2016b; Cheng & Sibon, 2016; Nurbianto, 2016a,b; Wong, 2016) widely read across the region portrayed a general consensus, in summary of the conference, that current agricultural practices in peatland areas, such as oil palm plantations, do not have a negative impact on the environment. This view is not shared by many scientists or supported by the weight of evidence that business-as-usual management is not sustainable for tropical peatland agriculture. Peer-reviewed scientific studies published over the last 19 years, as reflected in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Wetland Supplement on greenhouse gas inventories, affirm that drained tropical peatlands lose considerable amounts of carbon at high rates (Drösler et al., 2014). Tropical peat swamp forests have sequestered carbon for millennia, storing a globally significant reservoir below ground in the peat (Page et al., 2011; Dommain et al., 2014). However, contemporary agriculture techniques on peatlands heavily impact this system through land clearance, drainage and fertilization, a process that too often involves fire. Along with biodiversity losses driven by deforestation (Koh et al., 2011; Posa et al., 2011; Giam et al., 2012), the carbon stored in drained peatlands is rapidly lost through oxidation, dissolution and fire (Couwenberg et al., 2009; Hirano et al., 2012; Ramdani & Hino, 2013; Schrier-Uijl et al., 2013; Carlson et al., 2015; Warren et al., 2016). Tropical peat fires are a major contributor to global greenhouse gas emissions and produce transboundary haze causing significant impacts on human health, regional economies and ecosystems (Page et al., 2002; Marlier et al., 2012; Jaafar & Loh, 2014; Chisholm et al., 2016; Huijnen et al., 2016; Stockwell et al., 2016). With future El-Niño events predicted to increase in frequency and severity (Cai et al., 2014) and with fire prevalence now decoupled from drought years (Gaveau et al., 2014), future large-scale fire and haze events are imminent given the extensive areas of now-drained fire-prone drained peatlands (Kettridge et al., 2015; Turetsky et al., 2015; Page & Hooijer, 2016). In reality, just how much of the estimated 69 gigatonnes of carbon (Page et al., 2011) stored in South-East Asian tropical peatlands is being lost due to agricultural operations under the current management regime is still uncertain. Of great concern is that none of the agricultural management methods applied to date have been shown to prevent the loss of peat and the associated subsidence of the peatland surface following drainage (Wösten et al., 1997; Melling et al., 2008; Hooijer et al., 2012; Evers et al., 2016). Recent projections suggest that large areas of currently drained coastal peatlands will become undrainable and progressively be subjected to longer periods of inundation by river and ultimately sea water (Hooijer et al., 2015a,b; Sumarga et al., 2016). With growing risk of saltwater intrusion, agriculture in these coastal lands will become increasingly untenable, calling into question the very notion of ‘long-term sustainability of tropical peatland agriculture’. A more accurate view of drained peatland agriculture is that of an extractive industry, in which a finite resource (the peat) is ‘mined’ to produce food, fibre and fuel, driven by global demand. In developing countries with growing populations, there are strong socio-economic arguments for exploiting this resource to support local livelihoods and broader economic development (Mizuno et al., 2016). However, we must accept that ongoing peat loss is inevitable under this scenario. Science-based measures towards improved management, including limitations on the extent of plantation development, can be used to minimize the rate of this peat loss (President of Indonesia, 2011). Such an evidence-based position, supported with data and necessary legal instruments, is needed for sustainable futures. The scientifically unfounded belief that drained peatland agriculture can be made ‘sustainable’, and peat loss can be halted, via unproven methods such as peat compaction debilitates the effort to find sustainable possibilities. To a large extent, the issues surrounding unsustainable peatland management have now been recognized by sections of industry (Wilmar, 2013; APP, 2014; Cargill Inc., 2014; Mondelēz International, 2014; Sime Darby Plantation, 2014; APRIL, 2015; Olam International, 2015), government (President of Indonesia, 2014, 2016, Mongabay, 2015; Mongabay Haze Beat, 2015; Hermansyah, 2016) and consumers (Wijedasa et al., 2015). In recognition of the constraints and risks of peatland development, many large and experienced oil palm and pulpwood companies have halted further development on peat and introduced rigorous management requirements for existing peatland plantations (Lim et al., 2012). However, the denial of the empirical basis calling for improved peatland management remains persistent in influential policy spaces, as illustrated by the articles reporting on the conference (‘Oil palm planting on peat soil handled well, says Uggah, 2016b; Cheng & Sibon, 2016; Nurbianto, 2016a,b). The search for more responsible tropical peatland agriculture techniques includes promising recent initiatives to develop methods to cultivate crops on peat under wet conditions (Giesen, 2015; Dommain et al., 2016; Mizuno et al., 2016). While a truly sustainable peatland agriculture method does not yet exist, the scientific community and industry are collaborating in the search for solutions (International Peat Society, 2016), and for interim measures to mitigate ongoing rates of peat loss under existing plantations. Failing to recognize the devastating consequences of the current land use practices on peat soils and failing to work together to address them could mean that the next generation will have to deal with an irreversibly altered, dysfunctional landscape where neither environment nor society, globally or locally, will be winners. Open access facilitated by Greifswald Mire Centre and Department of Forestry Sciences, University of Helsinki. 2017-03 2018-07-03T10:55:47Z 2018-07-03T10:55:47Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/93466 en Open Access Wiley Wijedasa, L.S., Jauhiainen, J., Könönen, M., Lampela, M., Vasander, H., LeBlanc, M-C., Evers, S., Smith, T.E.L., Yule, C.M., Varkkey, H., Lupascu, M., Parish, F., Singleton, I., Clements, G.R., Aziz, S.A., Harrison, M.E., Cheyne, S., Anshari, G.Z., Meijaard, E., Goldstein, J.E., Waldron, S., Hergoualc'h, K., Dommain, R., Frolking, S., Evans, C.D., Posa, M.R.C., Glaser, P.H., Suryadiputra, N., Lubis, R., Santika, T., Padfield, R., Kurnianto, S., Hadisiswoyo, P., Lim, T.W., Page, S.E., Gauci, V., van der Meer, P.J., Buckland, H., Garnier, F., Samuel, M.K., Kim Choo, L.N.L., O'Reilly, P, Warren, M., Suksuwan, S., Sumarga, E., Jain, A., Laurance, W.F., Couwenberg, J., Joosten, H., Vernimmen, R., Hooijer, A., Malins, C., Cochrane, M.A., Perumal, B., Siegert, F., Peh, K.S.-H., Comeau, L.-P., Verchot, L.V., Harvey, C.F., Cobb, A., Jaafar, Z., Wösten, H., Manuri, S., Müller, M., Giesen, W., Phelps, J., Ding, L.Y., Silvius, M., Wedeux, B.M.M., Hoyt, A., Osaki, M., Takashi, H., Takahashi, H., Kohyama, T.S., Haraguchi, A., Nugroho, N.P., Coomes, D.A., Le, P.Q., Dohong, A., Gunawan, H., Gaveau, D.L.A., Langner, A., Lim, F.K.S., Edwards, D.P., Giam, X., van der Werf, G., Carmenta, R., Verwer, C.C., Gibson, L., Grandois, L., Graham, L.L.B., Regalino, J., Wich, S.A., Rieley, J., Kettridge, N., Brown, C., Pirard, R., Moore, S., Capilla, B.R., Ballhorn, U., Hua, C.H., Hoscilo, A., Lohberger, S., Evans, T.A., Yulianti, N., Blackham, G., Onrizal, Husson, S., Murdiyarso, D., Pangala, S., Cole, L.E.S., Tacconi, L., Segah, H., Tonoto, P., Lee, J.S.H., Schmilewski, G., Wulffraat, S., Putra, E.I., Cattau, M.E., Clymo, R.S., Morrison, R., Mijahid, A., Miettinen, J., Soo, C.L., Valpola, S., Wilson, D., D'Arcy, L., Gerding, M., Sundari, S., Thorton, S.A., Kalisz, B., Chapman, S.J., Mat Su, A.S., Basuki, I., Itoh, M., Traeholt, C., Sloan, S., Sayok, A.K., Andersen, R.. 2017. Denial of long-term issues with agriculture on tropical peatlands will have devastating consequences Global Change Biology, 23 (3) : 977-982. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.13516
spellingShingle tropical
peatlands
agriculture
sustainability
emission
subsidies
oil palms
acacias
Wijedasa, L.S.
Jauhiainen, J.
Könönen, M.
Lampela, M.
Vasander, H.
LeBlanc, M-C.
Evers, S.
Smith, T.E.L.
Yule, C.M.
Varkkey, H.
Lupascu, M.
Parish, F.
Singleton, I.
Clements, G.R.
Aziz, S.A.
Harrison, M.E.
Cheyne, S.
Anshari, G.Z.
Meijaard, E.
Goldstein, J.E.
Waldron, S.
Hergoualc'h, Kristell
Dommain, R.
Frolking, S.
Evans, C.D.
Posa, M.R.C.
Glaser, P.H.
Suryadiputra, N.
Lubis, R.
Santika, T.
Padfield, R.
Kurnianto, S.
Hadisiswoyo, P.
Lim, T.W.
Page, S.E.
Gauci, V.
Meer, P.J. van der
Buckland, H.
Garnier, F.
Samuel, M.K.
Kim Choo, L.N.L.
O'Reilly, P.
Warren, M.
Suksuwan, S.
Sumarga, E.
Jain, A.
Laurance, W.F.
Couwenberg, J.
Joosten, H.
Vernimmen, R.
Hooijer, A.
Malins, C.
Cochrane, M.A.
Perumal, B.
Siegert, F.
Peh, K.S.H.
Comeau, Louis Pierre
Verchot, Louis V.
Harvey, C.F.
Cobb, A.
Jaafar, Z.
Wösten, H.
Manuri, S.
Müller, M.
Giesen, W.
Phelps, J.
Ding, L.Y.
Silvius, M.
Wedeux, B.M.M.
Hoyt, A.
Osaki, M.
Takashi, H.
Takahashi, H.
Kohyama, T.S.
Haraguchi, A.
Nugroho, N.P.
Coomes, David A.
Le, P.Q.
Dohong, A.
Gunawan, H.
Gaveau, D.L.A.
Langner, A.
Lim, F.K.S.
Edwards, D.P.
Giam, X.
Werf, G. van der
Carmenta, R.
Verwer, C.C.
Gibson, L.
Grandois, L.
Graham, Laura L.B.
Regalino, J.
Wich, S.A.
Rieley, J.
Kettridge, N.
Brown, C.
Pirard, R.
Moore, S.
Capilla, B.R.
Ballhorn, U.
Hua, C.H.
Hoscilo, A.
Lohberger, S.
Evans, T.A.
Yulianti, N.
Blackham, G.
Onrizal, O.
Husson, S.
Murdiyarso, Daniel
Pangala, S.
Cole, L.E.S.
Tacconi, L.
Segah, H.
Tonoto, P.
Lee, J.S.H.
Schmilewski, G.
Wulffraat, S.
Putra, E.I.
Cattau, M.E.
Clymo, R.S.
Morrison, R.
Mijahid, A.
Miettinen, J.
Soo, C.L.
Valpola, S.
Wilson, D.
D'Arcy, L.
Gerding, M.
Sundari, S.
Thorton, S.A.
Kalisz, B.
Chapman, S.J.
Mat Su, A.S.
Basuki, I.
Itoh, M.
Traeholt, C.
Sloan, S.
Sayok, A.K.
Andersen, R.
Denial of long-term issues with agriculture on tropical peatlands will have devastating consequences
title Denial of long-term issues with agriculture on tropical peatlands will have devastating consequences
title_full Denial of long-term issues with agriculture on tropical peatlands will have devastating consequences
title_fullStr Denial of long-term issues with agriculture on tropical peatlands will have devastating consequences
title_full_unstemmed Denial of long-term issues with agriculture on tropical peatlands will have devastating consequences
title_short Denial of long-term issues with agriculture on tropical peatlands will have devastating consequences
title_sort denial of long term issues with agriculture on tropical peatlands will have devastating consequences
topic tropical
peatlands
agriculture
sustainability
emission
subsidies
oil palms
acacias
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/93466
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