Krishna, Vijesh V.

[["dc.bibliographiccitation.seriesnr","21"],["dc.contributor.author","Bou Dib, Jonida"],["dc.contributor.author","Krishna, Vijesh V."],["dc.contributor.author","Alamsyah, Zulkifli"],["dc.contributor.author","Qaim, Matin"],["dc.date.accessioned","2022-05-19T10:58:33Z"],["dc.date.available","2022-05-19T10:58:33Z"],["dc.date.issued","2018-01"],["dc.description.abstract","Many tropical regions are experiencing massive land-use change that is often characterized by an expansion of oil palm at the expense of forests and more traditional forms of agricultural cropping. While implications of such land-use change for the environment and for local farm households were examined in previous research, possible effects on the livelihoods of non- farm households are not yet well understood. This study analyzes the role of different types of agricultural and non-agricultural employment income for non-farm households in rural Jambi, one of the hotspot regions of Indonesia’s recent oil palm boom. Data from a recent survey show that employment in rubber and oil palm are important livelihood components for non- farm households. Employment in oil palm is more lucrative than employment in rubber, so involvement in the oil palm sector as a laborer is positively associated with total household income. Regression models show that whether or not a household works in oil palm is largely determined by factors related to migration background, ethnicity, and the size of the village area grown with this crop. These results suggest that further expansion of the oil palm area will likely benefit non-farm households through gains in employment income. As non-farm households belong to the poorest segments of the rural population, these benefits should not be ignored when designing policies towards sustainable land use."],["dc.format.extent","III, 29"],["dc.identifier.ppn","1010746332"],["dc.identifier.uri","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gro-2/108102"],["dc.language.iso","en"],["dc.publisher","SFB 990, University of Göttingen; GOEDOC, Dokumenten- und Publikationsserver der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen"],["dc.publisher.place","Göttingen"],["dc.relation","SFB 990: Ökologische und sozioökonomische Funktionen tropischer Tieflandregenwald-Transformationssysteme (Sumatra, Indonesien)"],["dc.relation","SFB 990 | C | C07: Einflussfaktoren von Landnutzungswandel und sozioökonomische Auswirkungen für ländliche Haushalte"],["dc.relation.crisseries","EFForTS Discussion Paper Series"],["dc.relation.orgunit","Johann-Friedrich-Blumenbach-Institut für Zoologie und Anthropologie"],["dc.rights","CC BY-NC-ND 4.0"],["dc.subject.gro","Oil palm; rubber; non-farm households; labor markets; sharecropping; income"],["dc.subject.gro","sfb990_discussionpaperseries"],["dc.title","Land-use change and livelihoods of non-farm households"],["dc.title.subtitle","The role of income from employment in oil palm and rubber in rural Indonesia"],["dc.type","working_paper"],["dc.type.internalPublication","yes"],["dc.type.version","published_version"],["dspace.entity.type","Publication"]]

[["dc.bibliographiccitation.seriesnr","26"],["dc.contributor.author","Kubitza, Christoph"],["dc.contributor.author","Bou Dib, Jonida"],["dc.contributor.author","Kopp, Thomas"],["dc.contributor.author","Krishna, Vijesh V."],["dc.contributor.author","Nuryartono, Nunung"],["dc.contributor.author","Qaim, Matin"],["dc.contributor.author","Romero, Miriam"],["dc.contributor.author","Klasen, Stephan"],["dc.date.accessioned","2022-05-19T11:18:13Z"],["dc.date.available","2022-05-19T11:18:13Z"],["dc.date.issued","2019-03"],["dc.description.abstract","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."],["dc.format.extent","48"],["dc.identifier.ppn","1067777024"],["dc.identifier.uri","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gro-2/108107"],["dc.language.iso","en"],["dc.publisher","SFB 990, University of Göttingen; GOEDOC, Dokumenten- und Publikationsserver der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen"],["dc.publisher.place","Göttingen"],["dc.relation","SFB 990: Ökologische und sozioökonomische Funktionen tropischer Tieflandregenwald-Transformationssysteme (Sumatra, Indonesien)"],["dc.relation","SFB 990 | C | C01: Produktivität, Marktzugang und internationale Anbindung von kleinbäuerlicher Kautschuk- und Palmölerzeugung in der Provinz Jambi"],["dc.relation","SFB 990 | C | C04: Mitigating trade-offs between economic and ecological functions and services through certification"],["dc.relation","SFB 990 | C | C07: Einflussfaktoren von Landnutzungswandel und sozioökonomische Auswirkungen für ländliche Haushalte"],["dc.relation","SFB 990 | C | C08: Design effektiver Politikinstrumente zur Förderung nachhaltiger Landnutzung"],["dc.relation.crisseries","EFForTS Discussion Paper Series"],["dc.relation.orgunit","Johann-Friedrich-Blumenbach-Institut für Zoologie und Anthropologie"],["dc.rights","CC BY-NC-ND 4.0"],["dc.subject.gro","tree-planting; oil palm; intentions; mediation; Asia"],["dc.subject.gro","sfb990_discussionpaperseries"],["dc.title","Labor savings in agriculture and inequality at different spatial scales"],["dc.title.subtitle","The expansion of oil palm in Indonesia"],["dc.type","working_paper"],["dc.type.internalPublication","yes"],["dc.type.version","published_version"],["dspace.entity.type","Publication"]]