Mongabay: Plans to rapidly expand palm oil production in Indonesian New Guinea are unlikely to boost livelihoods for local communities since most investors are outsiders and the bulk of workers will be migrants, argues a paper published in Environment, Development and Sustainability.
The study, authored by Krystof Obidzinski, Ahmad Dermawan and Adi Hadianto, assessed the economics of a government-led push to increase oil palm plantations in the eastern-most part of Indonesia. They found that while initiatives...