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Labor savings in agriculture and inequality at different spatial scales : (Record no. 60394)

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control field 60394
003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER
control field MX-TxCIM
005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION
control field 20220920151208.0
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022 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD SERIAL NUMBER
International Standard Serial Number 2197-6244
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE
Original cataloging agency MX-TxCIM
041 0# - LANGUAGE CODE
Language code of text/sound track or separate title eng
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
9 (RLIN) 7349
Personal name Kubitza, C.
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Labor savings in agriculture and inequality at different spatial scales :
Remainder of title the expansion of oil palm in Indonesia
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc. Goettingen (Germany) :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. University of Goettingen,
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2019.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 48 pages
490 0# - SERIES STATEMENT
Series statement EFForTS Discussion Paper ;
Volume/sequential designation n. 26
International Standard Serial Number 2197-6244
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE
General note Open Access
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. Labor saving innovations are essential to increase agricultural productivity, but they might also increase inequality through displacing labor. Empirical evidence on such labor displacements is limited. This study uses representative data at local and national scales to analyze labor market effects of the expansion of oil palm among smallholder farmers in Indonesia. Oil palm is labor-saving in the sense that it requires much less labor per unit of land than alternative crops. The labor market effects depend on how oil-palm-adopting farm households reallocate the saved labor time; either to the off-farm sector or to cultivating additional land. If adopters increase their labor supply to the off-farm sector, employment and wages of rural laborers might decrease. This is especially true for female agricultural laborers, who are often employed in alternative crops but less in oil palm, as their labor productivity in this particular crop is lower than that of men. However, our results suggest that oil palm adoption in Indonesia largely led to the cultivation of additional land, entailing higher agricultural labor demand, especially for men. At the same time, the oil palm boom caused broader rural economic development, providing additional employment opportunities also in the non-agricultural sector, thus absorbing some of the female labor released from agriculture. Overall employment rates did not decrease, neither for men nor for women. While this is good news from economic and social perspectives, the cropland expansion contributes to deforestation with adverse environmental effects. Policies to curb deforestation are needed. Forest conservation policies should go hand-in-hand with measures to further improve rural non-agricultural employment opportunities, to avoid negative socioeconomic effects for poor rural laborers, and women in particular.
536 ## - FUNDING INFORMATION NOTE
Text of note Funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) – project number 192626868 – in the framework of the collaborative German-Indonesian research project CRC 990 (SFB): “EFForTS, Ecological and Socioeconomic Functions of Tropical Lowland Rainforest Transformation Systems (Sumatra, Indonesia)”
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Language note Text in English
650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Source of heading or term AGROVOC
9 (RLIN) 9240
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Oil palms
650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Source of heading or term AGROVOC
9 (RLIN) 1763
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Smallholders
650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Source of heading or term AGROVOC
9 (RLIN) 9241
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Labour market
651 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME
Source of heading or term AGROVOC
9 (RLIN) 5206
Geographic name Indonesia
700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
9 (RLIN) 8099
Personal name Bou Dib, J.
700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
9 (RLIN) 9244
Personal name Kopp, T.
700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Krishna, V.V.
Field link and sequence number INT2994
Miscellaneous information Socioeconomics Program
-- Sustainable Agrifood Systems
9 (RLIN) 558
700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
9 (RLIN) 9245
Personal name Nuryartono, N.
700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
9 (RLIN) 263
Personal name Qaim, M.
700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
9 (RLIN) 9246
Personal name Romero, M.
700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
9 (RLIN) 9247
Personal name Klasen, S.
856 4# - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS
Link text Open Access through DSpace
Uniform Resource Identifier https://hdl.handle.net/10883/20162
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Date last seen Total Checkouts Price effective from Koha item type Lost status Source of classification or shelving scheme Damaged status Not for loan Collection code Withdrawn status Home library Current library Date acquired
05/07/2019   05/07/2019 Book Not Lost Dewey Decimal Classification     CIMMYT Staff Publications Collection   CIMMYT Knowledge Center: John Woolston Library CIMMYT Knowledge Center: John Woolston Library 05/07/2019

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