High-yield oil palm expansion spares land at the expense of forests in the Peruvian Amazon
dc.creator | Gutiérrez-Vélez, Víctor Hugo | |
dc.creator | DeFries, Ruth | |
dc.creator | Pinedo-Vásquez, Miguel | |
dc.creator | Uriarte, María | |
dc.creator | Padoch, Christine | |
dc.creator | Baethgen, Walter | |
dc.creator | Fernandes, Katia | |
dc.creator | Lim, Yili | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-03-19T21:54:39Z | |
dc.date.available | 2021-03-19T21:54:39Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2011-12-22 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Gutiérrez-Vélez, V.H., DeFries, R., Pinedo-Vásquez, M., et al. (2011). High-yield oil palm expansion spares land at the expense of forests in the Peruvian Amazon. Environmental Research Letters. 6:5. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/6/4/044029. | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1748-9326 | |
dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.34944/dspace/6225 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12613/6243 | |
dc.description.abstract | High-yield agriculture potentially reduces pressure on forests by requiring less land to increase production. Using satellite and field data, we assessed the area deforested by industrial-scale high-yield oil palm expansion in the Peruvian Amazon from 2000 to 2010, finding that 72% of new plantations expanded into forested areas. In a focus area in the Ucayali region, we assessed deforestation for high- and smallholder low-yield oil palm plantations. Low-yield plantations accounted for most expansion overall (80%), but only 30% of their expansion involved forest conversion, contrasting with 75% for high-yield expansion. High-yield expansion minimized the total area required to achieve production but counter-intuitively at higher expense to forests than low-yield plantations. The results show that high-yield agriculture is an important but insufficient strategy to reduce pressure on forests. We suggest that high-yield agriculture can be effective in sparing forests only if coupled with incentives for agricultural expansion into already cleared lands. | |
dc.format.extent | 5 pages | |
dc.language | English | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Faculty/ Researcher Works | |
dc.relation.haspart | Environmental Research Letters, Vol. 6, No. 4 | |
dc.relation.isreferencedby | IOP Publishing | |
dc.rights | Attribution CC BY | |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | |
dc.subject | Agricultural intensification | |
dc.subject | Yield | |
dc.subject | Land use change | |
dc.subject | Remote sensing | |
dc.subject | Tropical forests | |
dc.subject | Deforestation | |
dc.subject | Conservation | |
dc.subject | Biofuels | |
dc.title | High-yield oil palm expansion spares land at the expense of forests in the Peruvian Amazon | |
dc.type | Text | |
dc.type.genre | Journal article | |
dc.description.department | Geography and Urban Studies | |
dc.relation.doi | https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/6/4/044029 | |
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dc.description.schoolcollege | Temple University. College of Liberal Arts | |
dc.temple.creator | Gutiérrez-Vélez, Víctor H. | |
refterms.dateFOA | 2021-03-19T21:54:39Z |