Commerce: Help bigger palm oil yields to save land
Technological innovation in oil-palm farming could help both to boost yields of palm oil and to reduce deforestation, but only if higher productivity causes palm-oil prices to drop sufficiently to discourage additional cultivation. If prices stay high, the demand for land is likely to go up in the p...
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| Formato: | Journal Article |
| Lenguaje: | Inglés |
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Springer
2017
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| Acceso en línea: | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/95442 |
| Sumario: | Technological innovation in oil-palm farming could help both to boost yields of palm oil and to reduce deforestation, but only if higher productivity causes palm-oil prices to drop sufficiently to discourage additional cultivation. If prices stay high, the demand for land is likely to go up in the push for ever-larger profits. |
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