Technological innovation in oil-palm farming could help both to boost yields of palm oil and to reduce deforestation, but only if higher productivity causes palm-oil prices to drop sufficiently to discourage additional cultivation. If prices stay high, the demand for land is likely to go up in the push for ever-larger profits.
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TI - Commerce: Help bigger palm oil yields to save land
AU - De Pinto, A.
AU - Wiebe, K.
AU - Pacheco, P.
AB - Technological innovation in oil-palm farming could help both to boost yields of palm oil and to reduce deforestation, but only if higher productivity causes palm-oil prices to drop sufficiently to discourage additional cultivation. If prices stay high, the demand for land is likely to go up in the push for ever-larger profits.
PY - 2017
UR - https://www.cifor-icraf.org/knowledge/publication/6491/
DO - https://doi.org/10.1038/544416d
KW - cultivation, farming, oil palms, palm oils
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%T Commerce: Help bigger palm oil yields to save land
%A De Pinto, A.
%A Wiebe, K.
%A Pacheco, P.
%D 2017
%U https://www.cifor-icraf.org/knowledge/publication/6491/
%R https://doi.org/10.1038/544416d
%X Technological innovation in oil-palm farming could help both to boost yields of palm oil and to reduce deforestation, but only if higher productivity causes palm-oil prices to drop sufficiently to discourage additional cultivation. If prices stay high, the demand for land is likely to go up in the push for ever-larger profits.
%K cultivation
%K farming
%K oil palms
%K palm oils
Publication year
2017
ISSN
0028-0836
Authors
De Pinto, A.; Wiebe, K.; Pacheco, P.
Language
English
Keywords
cultivation, farming, oil palms, palm oils
Source
Nature. 544: 416
