Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/117324 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
EFForTS Discussion Paper Series No. 12
Publisher: 
GOEDOC, Dokumenten- und Publikationsserver der Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen
Abstract: 
The recent expansion of oil palm in Indonesia is largely smallholder-driven. However, its socio-economic implications are under-examined. Analyzing farm-household data from Jambi Province, Sumatra, oil palm adoption is found to have positive consumption and nutrition effects. However, these effects are largely due to farm size expansion that is associated with oil palm adoption. Potential heterogeneity of effects among oil palm adopters is examined using quantile regressions. While nutrition effects of oil palm adoption are found to be homogenous across quantiles, the effects on non-food expenditure are expressed more strongly at the upper end of the expenditure distribution.
Subjects: 
non-food cash crops
oil palm expansion
smallholder livelihoods
quantile regression
Indonesia
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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