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dc.creatorGutiérrez-Vélez, Víctor Hugo
dc.creatorDeFries, Ruth
dc.creatorPinedo-Vásquez, Miguel
dc.creatorUriarte, María
dc.creatorPadoch, Christine
dc.creatorBaethgen, Walter
dc.creatorFernandes, Katia
dc.creatorLim, Yili
dc.date.accessioned2021-03-19T21:54:39Z
dc.date.available2021-03-19T21:54:39Z
dc.date.issued2011-12-22
dc.identifier.citationGutiérrez-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.issn1748-9326
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.34944/dspace/6225
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12613/6243
dc.description.abstractHigh-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.extent5 pages
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofFaculty/ Researcher Works
dc.relation.haspartEnvironmental Research Letters, Vol. 6, No. 4
dc.relation.isreferencedbyIOP Publishing
dc.rightsAttribution CC BY
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectAgricultural intensification
dc.subjectYield
dc.subjectLand use change
dc.subjectRemote sensing
dc.subjectTropical forests
dc.subjectDeforestation
dc.subjectConservation
dc.subjectBiofuels
dc.titleHigh-yield oil palm expansion spares land at the expense of forests in the Peruvian Amazon
dc.typeText
dc.type.genreJournal article
dc.description.departmentGeography and Urban Studies
dc.relation.doihttps://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/6/4/044029
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dc.description.schoolcollegeTemple University. College of Liberal Arts
dc.temple.creatorGutiérrez-Vélez, Víctor H.
refterms.dateFOA2021-03-19T21:54:39Z


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