tailieunhanh - Greasy palms - The social and ecological impacts of large-scale oil palm plantation development in Southeast Asia

The Pest Risk Analysis on South American Leaf Blight, The Contingency Plan for South American Leaf Blight of Rubber and the Model Work Plan for the Importation of Budded Stumps or Budwood of Hevea are supporting documents for the implementation of the Regional Standards for Phytosanitary Measures No. 7 – Guidelines for Protection against South American Leaf Blight of Rubber. These documents reflect the most up-to-date progress of APPPC in terms of management of SALB and are essential references for protection against SALB in Asia and Pacific region. Further development of additional operational guidelines, references and measures for prevention of SALB in the Asia-Pacific region are ongoing | Greasy palms The social and ecological impacts of large-scale oil palm plantation development in Southeast Asia Acknowledgements The following people and organisations provided indispensable contributions to the realisation of this report Robin Webster and Ed Matthew Friends of the Earth England Wales and Northern Ireland Myrthe Verweij Vereniging Milieudefensie the Netherlands Karin Astrid Siegmann Centre for Development Research Germany Teck Wyn Traffic Southeast Asia Fitrian Ardiansyah and Purwo Susanto WWF Indonesia Peter Dam Forcert PNG Meena Raman Consumers Association Penang Malaysia Cecilia Anthonysamy Community Development Centre Malaysia Nur Hidayati Walhi Indonesia Lester Seri Conservation Melanesia PNG Lee Tan Friends of the Earth Australia Jan Maarten Dros AIDEnvironment the Netherlands and especially Joanna de Rozario and the full Sawit Watch team in Bogor and in the various provinces of Indonesia. Written by Eric Wakker AIDEnvironment In collaboration with Sawit Watch Indonesia and Joanna de Rozario on behalf of Friends of the Earth England Wales and Northern Ireland. Friends of the Earth January 2005 All rights reserved. No part of this report may be reproduced by any means nor transmitted nor translated into a machine language without written permission. Contents List of figures 3 List of boxes________________________________________________________________________3 List of tables_______________________________________________________________________3 List of terms and acronyms 4 About this report 5 Friends of the Earth recommendations 6 Executive summary 9 A. Introduction 10 B. Expansion of oil palm plantations 12 C. Deforestation 16 D. Forest fires 21 E. Pollution 24 F. Illegal activities and corruption 27 G. Land rights and social conflicts 29 H. Settlers and smallholder issues 33 I. Plantation labour 39 References 45 - 2