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The palm oil industry is one of the oldest and most established commercial industries in the world. The product is hailed as an economically viable crop as compared with other oils used and consumed globally. This book provides an overview of the palm oil industry and the management of the crop itself. There has always been a growing interest in the scientific community to better understand this crop as well as the related industrial processes for environmental and nutritive purposes. As such, this book presents useful information on the palm oil industry from multiple perspectives.
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Oil palms are ubiquitous - grown in nearly every tropical country, they supply the world with more edible fat than any other plant and play a role in scores of packaged products, from lipstick and soap to margarine and cookies. And as Jonathan Robins shows, sweeping social transformations carried the plant around the planet.
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A dark and fascinating story of how palm oil has shaped our world.
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Palm oil industry --- Sustainability --- Palm oil industry --- Geographic information systems. --- Geographic information systems. --- Environmental aspects.
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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 --- Palm oil industry --- Palm oil industry --- Plantation workers --- Sustainable development --- Rural development --- Deforestation --- Social aspects --- Environmental aspects --- Social conditions.
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