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Martin Lynn's study investigates the transition period of West African history when the trading system moved from slave-based trade to so-called 'legitimate' trade. Palm oil trade was especially important, having grown out of the slave trade.
Palm oil industry --- History --- West Africa --- Huile de palme --- History of Africa --- anno 1800-1899 --- Industrie --- Histoire --- Arts and Humanities
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Dans Palma Africana, l’anthropologue australien Michael Taussig poursuit son étude de la matière et explore la production d’huile de palme en Colombie. Alors que cette dernière envahit tout, des chips au vernis à ongles, et a fait son chemin pour envahir les biens de consommation courante présents sur les étals de nos supermarchés, l’auteur examine les conséquences écologiques, politiques et sociales de cette exploitation. La production mondiale d’huile de palme a presque doublé en vingt ans et les plantations de palmiers à huile remplacent peu à peu ce qui fut une oasis de vie pour les animaux, les oiseaux et les plantes. Dans un contexte encore marqué par le conflit entre la guérilla des FARC et les paramilitaires colombiens, l’agrobusiness en est venu à menacer l’habitat indigène, tout en donnant lieu à des conditions de travail abusives et à des violations majeures des droits de l’homme. Bien que la liste de l’intrication des horreurs induites par cette exploitation soit longue, nos terminologies habituelles (« disparition de l’habitat naturel », « violation des droits de l’homme », « changement climatique »...) semblent dépassées. Sous la forme d’une déambulation anthropo-poétique au cœur des marécages colombiens, ce sont aussi les mots et l’écriture qu’interrogent l’auteur. Dans un récit riche en références littéraires, Michael Taussig prend date des ruminations de ses prédécesseurs, comme Roland Barthes, pour qui les arbres forment un alphabet où le palmier est le plus charmant. William Burroughs arguait, face à ses détracteurs, que les mots étaient aussi vivants que des animaux et n’aimaient pas être maintenus en pages – coupez ces dernières et ils seront rendus à leur liberté. Pensé à partir d’une vie d’exploration philosophique et ethnographique en Colombie, Palma Africana cherche à contrecarrer la banalité de la destruction du monde et offre une vision pénétrante de notre condition humaine. Illustré de photographies prises sur le terrain par l’auteur et écrit avec la verve expérimentale propre à l’anthropologue, ce livre est le Triste Tropique de Michael Taussig pour le XXIe siècle.
Oil palm --- Palm oil industry --- Ethnology --- Plantations --- Social aspects --- Economic aspects --- Environmental aspects --- Taussig, Michael T. --- Colombia --- Social conditions --- Environmental conditions --- Huile de palme --- Aspect social --- Aspect économique --- Oil palm - Social aspects - Colombia --- Oil palm - Economic aspects - Colombia --- Palm oil industry - Environmental aspects - Colombia --- Ethnology - Colombia --- Plantations - Colombia --- Colombia - Social conditions --- Colombia - Environmental conditions --- Palm oil. --- History.
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"Drawing on long-term ethnographic fieldwork and prior human rights advocacy in the Indonesian-controlled region of West Papua, In the Shadow of the Palms explores how deforestation and monocrop oil palm expansion reconfigure the multispecies lifeworld of Indigenous Marind communities through its effects on the landscape, time, personhood, and dreams. Working with and across species categories and hierarchies, the book highlights how the proliferation of industrial monocrops subverts the futures and relations of some lifeforms while opening new horizons of possibility for others. Sophie Chao situates these dynamics within West Papua's violent and volatile history of political colonization, ethnic domination, and capitalist incursion. By approaching cash crops as both drivers of destruction and subjects of human exploitation, the book makes a compelling argument for rethinking capitalist violence as a multispecies act. Taking oil palm as its central protagonist, it makes a timely contribution to our understanding of human-environment relations in an age of radical ecological change"--
Palm oil industry --- Plantation workers --- Sustainable development --- Rural development --- Deforestation --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social --- SCIENCE / Environmental Science (see also Chemistry / Environmental) --- Social aspects --- Environmental aspects --- Social conditions. --- Social conditions --- Deforestation. --- Déboisement --- Développement durable --- Développement rural --- Entwaldung. --- Huile de palme --- Indonesien. --- Ländliche Entwicklung. --- Palm oil industry. --- Palmöl. --- Palmölindustrie. --- Rural development. --- SCIENCE / Environmental Science (see also Chemistry / Environmental). --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social. --- Soziale Lage. --- Sustainable development. --- Travailleurs des plantations --- Umweltbelastung. --- Industrie --- Aspect de l'environnement --- Aspect social --- Social aspects. --- Conditions sociales --- Indonesia --- Provinz Papua. --- Human ecology. Social biology --- Environmental protection. Environmental technology --- ecology --- environmental protection --- pollution
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Palm oil, extracted from the pulp of oil palm fruit, is the main source of vegetable fats and oils on the world market. Its ability to adapt to different climates and its productivity make it a major food safety component in Asian countries and the tropical belt. The book seeks to give the practitioner the necessary elements for setting up and operating a palm stand by combining the basic scientific and technical knowledge required to understand technical choices with the sustainable development priorities of the crop. Special mention is therefore made of actions to limit the potentially negative aspects and highlight the positive aspects of proposed techniques and strategies without forgetting efficient protection of people working in the plantations. Lastly, the essential factual components are given in terms of the use of oil palm products and their impact on human health.
African oil palm --- Elaeis guineensis --- Elaeis melanococca --- Oil palm --- Olie [Palm] --- Oliepalm --- Palm oil tree --- Palmier à huile --- Pratique culturale --- Cultivation --- Huile de palme --- palm oils --- Industrie des corps gras --- oils industry --- extension activities --- Agriculture --- Tropics --- Crops --- Palm oil industry. --- Palm oil. --- economics --- palm tree --- tree --- plant production --- agronomy --- industry --- farm
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This book reports the latest work on green technologies in palm oil milling processes, including new processes and various optimisation techniques. It covers the latest developments on palm oil milling process with new technologies, alternative solvent design, residual oil recovery, palm oil mill effluent treatment, palm biomass supply chain, as well as ecoindustrial park concept. The book is intended for industrial practitioners and academics interested in green technologies for palm oil milling processes.
Green technology. --- Palm oil industry --- Environmental aspects. --- Biochemical engineering. --- Waste disposal. --- Plant breeding. --- Biochemical Engineering. --- Waste Management/Waste Technology. --- Plant Breeding/Biotechnology. --- Crops --- Agriculture --- Breeding --- Bio-process engineering --- Bioprocess engineering --- Biochemistry --- Biotechnology --- Chemical engineering --- Refuse and refuse disposal. --- Discarded materials --- Disposal of refuse --- Garbage --- Household waste --- Household wastes --- Refuse and refuse disposal --- Rubbish --- Solid waste management --- Trash --- Waste disposal --- Waste management --- Wastes, Household --- Sanitation --- Factory and trade waste --- Pollution --- Pollution control industry --- Salvage (Waste, etc.) --- Street cleaning --- Waste products --- Environmental aspects --- Waste management.
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In Colonial Impotence, Benoît Henriet studies the violent contradictions of colonial rule from the standpoint of the Leverville concession, Belgian Congo’s largest palm oil exploitation. Leverville was imagined as a benevolent tropical utopia, whose Congolese workers would be "civilized" through a paternalist machinery. However, the concession was marred by inefficiency, endemic corruption and intrinsic brutality. Colonial agents in the field could be seen as impotent, for they were both unable and unwilling to perform as expected. This book offers a new take on the joint experience of colonialism and capitalism in Southwest Congo, and sheds light on their impact on local environments, bodies, societies and cosmogonies.
HISTORY / Africa / General. --- Capitalism. --- Colonialism. --- Palm oil. --- Unilever. --- Logging --- History --- Congo (Democratic Republic) --- Forest harvesting --- Pulpwood --- Timber --- Trees --- Harvesting --- Lumbering --- Forestry engineering --- Forests and forestry --- Exploitation forestière --- Congo belge --- Pratique déloyale --- Huile de palme --- Commerce --- Industrie --- État indépendant du Congo --- Palm oil industry --- Corrupt practices --- Colonial influence. --- #SBIB:949.3H4 --- #SBIB:96G --- #SBIB:39A4 --- #SBIB:39A73 --- Vegetable oil industry --- Koloniale en diplomatieke geschiedenis van België (wereldoorlogen) --- Geschiedenis van Afrika --- Toegepaste antropologie --- Etnografie: Afrika --- Congo DR --- Congo (Kinshasa) --- Congo (Leopoldville) --- Democratic Republic of Congo --- Democratic Republic of the Congo --- Demokraticheskai︠a︡ Respublika Kongo --- DR Congo --- DRC (Democratic Republic of the Congo) --- DRK (Demokraticheskai︠a︡ Respublika Kongo) --- Kongo --- R.D. Congo --- RD Congo --- RDC (République démocratique du Congo) --- Republic of Congo (Leopoldville) --- Republic of the Congo (Leopoldville) --- République démocratique du Congo --- République du Congo (Leopoldville) --- Belgian Congo --- Zaire --- Capitalism --- Colonialism --- Palm oil --- Unilever --- History of Congo --- anno 1910-1919 --- anno 1920-1929 --- anno 1930-1939 --- 1900-1999
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