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La palme des controverses : palmier à huile et enjeux de développement
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ISBN: 2759220508 Year: 2013 Publisher: Versailles, France : Éditions Quæ,

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Commerce and economic change in West Africa
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ISBN: 0521590744 0521893267 9780521893268 9780521590747 9780511582035 0585033749 9780585033747 051158203X 0511000855 Year: 1997 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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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.


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Palma Africana
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ISSN: 26459906 ISBN: 9782490077595 2490077597 Year: 2021 Volume: 9 Publisher: Paris: B42,

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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.


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In the shadow of the palms : more-than-human becomings in West Papua
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ISBN: 9781478018247 9781478015611 9781478022855 1478018240 1478015616 Year: 2022 Publisher: Durham [North Carolina] Duke University Press

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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"--


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Le palmier a huile
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ISSN: 17786568 ISBN: 9782759216789 9789290814801 9782870161159 2759216780 9290814802 2870161158 2759216799 Year: 2011 Volume: *6 Publisher: Versailles : Wageningen : Gembloux : Editions Qu ; CTA ; Presses agronomiques de Gembloux,

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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.


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Green Technologies for the Oil Palm Industry
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ISBN: 9811322368 981132235X Year: 2019 Publisher: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer,

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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.


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Colonial impotence : virtue and violence in a Congolese concession (1911-1940)
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ISBN: 3110652730 3110649098 3110648784 9783110648782 9783110648782 Year: 2021 Publisher: Berlin : De Gruyter Oldenbourg,

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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.

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