Market-mediated responses confound policies to limit deforestation from oil palm expansion in Malaysia and Indonesia.

ABSTRACT: The global demand for palm oil has grown rapidly over the past several decades. Much of the output expansion has occurred in carbon- and biodiversity-rich forest lands of Malaysia and Indonesia (M&I), contributing to record levels of terrestrial carbon emissions and biodiversity loss. This has led to a variety of voluntary and mandatory regulatory actions, as well as calls for limits on palm oil imports from M&I. This paper offers a comprehensive, global assessment of the economic and environmental consequences of alternative policies aimed at limiting deforestation from oil palm expansion in M&I. It highlights the challenges of limiting forest and biodiversity loss in the presence of market-mediated spillovers into related oilseed and agricultural commodity and factor markets, both in M&I

SUBMITTER: Taheripour F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6754590 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature