Co-producing a Research Agenda for Sustainable Palm Oil

Padfield, Rory; Hansen, Sune Balle; Davies, ZG; Ehrensperger, Albrecht; Slade, EM; Evers, Stephanie; Papargyropoulou, Effie; Bessou, Cécile; Abdullah, Norziha; Page, Susan; Ancrenaz, Marc; Aplin, Paul; Dzulkafli, SB; Barclay, Holly; Chellaiah, Darshanaa; Choudhary, Sonal; Conway, Stuart; Cook, Simon; Copeland, Alan; Campos‐Arceiz, Ahimsa; Deere, NJ; Drew, Simon C.; Gilvear, David; Gray, Ross E. J.; Haller, Tobias; Hood, Amelia S. C.; Huat, LK; Huynh, Ngoc Thai; Nagulendran, Kangayatkarasu; Koh, LP; Kolandai, SK; Lim, Rah; Yeong, KL; Lucey, JM; Luke, Sarah H.; Mitchell, SL; Montefrio, M. F.; Mullin, Katherine E.; Nainar, Anand; Nekaris, K. A. I.; Nijman, Vincent; Nunes, Matheus Henrique; Nurhidayu, Siti; O’Reilly, Patrick; Puan, CL; Ruppert, Nadine; Salim, Hengky K.; Schouten, Greetje; Tallontire, Anne; Smith, Tel; Tao, HH; Tham, MH; Varkkey, Helena; Wadey, Jamie; Yule, CM; Azhar, Badrul; Sayok, AK; Vairappan, Charles Santhanaraju; Bicknell, JE; Struebig, M.

doi:10.3389/ffgc.2019.00013

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“…Overall, therefore, the Programme offers a highly valuable longterm, experimental, interdisciplinary, and international collaborative project. It provides substantial potential to address current oil palm research priorities (Padfield et al, 2019), generating industry-and conservation-relevant research, as well as providing support for collaborations, training, and within-country development.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…As a perennial crop with a planting rotation of at least 25 years, it is suitable for long-term field studies and has high potential to develop substantial structural complexity during its lifetime (Foster et al, 2011;Luskin and Potts, 2011). In addition, the international economic importance of the crop means that there is potential financial, logistic, and intellectual support for such research (Padfield et al, 2019). There is also growing international pressure to reduce the environmental impact of oil palm (Meijaard et al, 2018), and several certification initiatives and standards are already well-established that have developed guidelines on sustainable plantation management (e.g., the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil, RSPO, https://rspo.org/; Indonesian Sustainable Palm Oil, ISPO (http://www.ispo-org.…”

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“…sensorproject.net/) are notable exceptions to this. There is, therefore, a significant knowledge gap in oil palm research to inform more environmentally-friendly management within the crop itself (Foster et al, 2011;Padfield et al, 2019), and what the effect of proposed solutions may be on profitability, and hence their chances of uptake by the industry. Given the huge land area occupied by oil palm plantations [18.7 million ha worldwide in 2017 (Meijaard et al, 2018)] and continued expansion of the crop (FAO, 2019), such work has the potential to influence the biodiversity and functioning of ecosystems over vast areas.…”

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“…With smallholders increasing in their share of production, plot-level diversification deserves attention. External stakeholders focus on the environmental and social aspects of oil palm production (Padfield et al, 2019), but profitability considerations also matter for adoption by smallholders.…”

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Oil Palm Agroforestry Can Achieve Economic and Environmental Gains as Indicated by Multifunctional Land Equivalent Ratios

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Driven by increased global demand for vegetable oil in the food and biofuel sectors, oil palm plantations based on monoculture technology have expanded into lowland tropical forests. Interest in diversified, mixed oil palm systems is increasing as these might increase efficiency of the use of land and other resources, reduce farmer risk, and decrease greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions per unit product. Land Equivalent Ratio for provisioning services (LER P) values above 1.0 show that at least some diversified systems use land more efficiently than monocultures and are thus "land sparing," where monoculture LER P cannot exceed 1.0. Diversification also modifies climate and water regulating functions ("land sharing") relative to a forest reference, as indicated in the LER R index. A "multifunctional" LER M indicator combines both; land sparing plus land sharing effects jointly determine expected regulating services. Empirical assessment of multiple ecosystem services in agricultural landscapes is assisted by models that synthesise process-based knowledge, especially for perennial systems where welldesigned experiments require a full production cycle, and are costly and scarce. Agroforestry models explore spacing, intercropping and soil management options, predicting harvestable yields, impacts on water flows, nutrient leaching, and greenhouse gas emissions. We used the process-based Water, Nutrient and Light Capture in Agroforestry System (WaNuLCAS) model to explore mixed oil palm + cocoa and oil palm + pepper intercrop systems with modified ("double row") planting patterns for Indonesian contexts and estimated consequences for the carbon footprint. The oil palm + cocoa intercrop provided a high LER P (1.4), while also replenishing more ground water and having a lower C footprint. This combination also has a return to labour equal to that in oil palm monocultures and a higher benefit cost ratio than the oil palm + pepper combination that maximizes Net Present Value. Oil palm + cocoa systems are also less sensitive to price uncertainty for oil palm, and buffer for oil palm and cocoa production risks, assumed to be independent of each other. Considerable economic and environmental system improvements appear to be feasible through mixed oil palm systems and diversification as a pathway to intensification deserves full attention of research and policy development.

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“…avoided Padfield et al (2019). indicated a research agenda that prioritised environmental studies to address the diversity of challenges faced by the palm oil industry Paterson and Lima (2018).…”

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Oil palm survival under climate change in Kalimantan and alternative SE Asian palm oil countries with future basal stem rot assessments

Paterson

2020

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Oil palm (OP) is affected by climate change and the cultivation of the crop also contributes to climate alteration. Simulation modelling and large data sets indicated the effects of climate change on OP will be to (a) reduce growth and yields and (b) cause death of some OP. Furthermore, basal stem rot (BSR) caused by Ganoderma boninense, a serious disease of OP, has increased over the past two or three decades because of the disease spreading from infection foci at a greater rate in repeated crops of OP planted on infested sites. The disease may increase further by natural selection of more virulent strains of the fungus. In this paper, increased mortality of OP is predicted based on climate change scenarios for Kalimantan and other South‐East Asian countries with palm oil industries. Climate suitability scenarios for growing OP are also used to assess how BSR will change in the specified region and countries. The data suggest that Kalimantan and the Philippines may be more suitable for growing OP than Thailand and Myanmar, with Papua New Guinea being intermediate. Development of methods for mitigating the effects of climate change on OP is urgently required.

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Co-producing a Research Agenda for Sustainable Palm Oil

Cited by 33 publications

References 53 publications

Managing Oil Palm Plantations More Sustainably: Large-Scale Experiments Within the Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function in Tropical Agriculture (BEFTA) Programme

Managing Oil Palm Plantations More Sustainably: Large-Scale Experiments Within the Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function in Tropical Agriculture (BEFTA) Programme

Oil Palm Agroforestry Can Achieve Economic and Environmental Gains as Indicated by Multifunctional Land Equivalent Ratios

Oil palm survival under climate change in Kalimantan and alternative SE Asian palm oil countries with future basal stem rot assessments

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