We read the recent article by Kibrom Sibhatu on the Oil Palm Boom and Household Diets in the Tropics (Sibhatu, 2019) with great interest. The paper makes a valuable contribution to the debate surrounding agricultural commercialization, production diversity, and nutrition. However, we argue that the central conclusion, that “The results illustrate that land-use change through oil palm adoption significantly improves the diets of farm households in the tropics,” is misleading and overgeneralized.
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TI - Commentary: Oil Palm Boom and Farm Household Diets in the Tropics
AU - Nurhasan, M.
AU - Pawera, L.
AU - Lo, M.
AU - Pratama, M.F.
AU - Rahmah, M.
AU - Utami, M.M.H.
AU - Rowland, D.
AB - We read the recent article by Kibrom Sibhatu on the Oil Palm Boom and Household Diets in the Tropics (Sibhatu, 2019) with great interest. The paper makes a valuable contribution to the debate surrounding agricultural commercialization, production diversity, and nutrition. However, we argue that the central conclusion, that “The results illustrate that land-use change through oil palm adoption significantly improves the diets of farm households in the tropics,” is misleading and overgeneralized.
PY - 2020
UR - https://www.cifor-icraf.org/knowledge/publication/7662/
DO - https://doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2020.00039
KW - diet, land use change, nutrition, oil palms, rubber
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%A Nurhasan, M.
%A Pawera, L.
%A Lo, M.
%A Pratama, M.F.
%A Rahmah, M.
%A Utami, M.M.H.
%A Rowland, D.
%D 2020
%U https://www.cifor-icraf.org/knowledge/publication/7662/
%R https://doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2020.00039
%X We read the recent article by Kibrom Sibhatu on the Oil Palm Boom and Household Diets in the Tropics (Sibhatu, 2019) with great interest. The paper makes a valuable contribution to the debate surrounding agricultural commercialization, production diversity, and nutrition. However, we argue that the central conclusion, that “The results illustrate that land-use change through oil palm adoption significantly improves the diets of farm households in the tropics,” is misleading and overgeneralized.
%K diet
%K land use change
%K nutrition
%K oil palms
%K rubber
Publication year
2020
ISSN
2571-581X
Authors
Nurhasan, M.; Pawera, L.; Lo, M.; Pratama, M.F.; Rahmah, M.; Utami, M.M.H.; Rowland, D.
Language
English
Keywords
diet, land use change, nutrition, oil palms, rubber
Source
Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems. 4: 39
