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The Tropical Oil Crop Revolution - Food, Feed, Fuel, and Forests (Hardcover)
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The Tropical Oil Crop Revolution - Food, Feed, Fuel, and Forests (Hardcover)
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Over the last two decades global production of soybean and palm oil
seeds have increased enormously. Because these tropically rainfed
crops are used for food, cooking, animal feed, and biofuels, they
have entered the agriculture, food, and energy chains of most
nations despite their actual growth being increasingly concentrated
in Southeast Asia and South America. The planting of these crops is
controversial because they are sown on formerly forested lands,
rely on large farmers and agribusiness rather than smallholders for
their development, and supply export markets. The contrasts with
the famed Green Revolution in rice and wheat of the 1960s through
the 1980s are stark, as those irrigated crops were primarily grown
by smallholders, depended upon public subsidies for cultivation,
and served largely domestic sectors. The overall aim of the book is
to provide a broad synthesis of the major supply and demand drivers
of the rapid expansion of oil crops in the tropics; its economic,
social, and environmental impacts; and the future outlook to 2050.
After introducing the dramatic surge in oil crops, chapters provide
a comparative perspective from different producing regions for two
of the world's most important crops, oil palm and soybeans in the
tropics. The following chapters examine the drivers of demand of
vegetable oils for food, animal feed, and biodiesel and introduce
the reader to price formation in vegetable oil markets and the role
of trade in linking consumers across the world to distant producers
in a handful of exporting countries. The remaining chapters review
evidence on the economic, social, and environmental impacts of the
oil crop revolution in the tropics. While both economic benefits
and social and environmental costs have been huge, the outlook is
for reduced trade-offs and more sustainable outcomes as the oil
crop revolution slows and the global, national, and local
communities converge on ways to better managed land use changes and
land rights.
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