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Vulnerability, Control and Oil Palm in Sarawak: Globalization and a New Era?

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  • Fadzilah Majid Cooke

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In the post logging era, Sarawak is being restructured to make way for large‐scale oil palm plantations. In this restructuring, the vulnerabilities of particular areas are being used in a wider battle to control production, particularly for export. Native customary lands, considered ‘unproductive’ or ‘idle’ by officials, are the target of oil palm plantation development under a new land development programme called Konsep Baru (New Concept). This article looks at the contradictions generated by the complex process of laying claims to ‘idle’ native customary land and focuses on Dayak organizing initiatives in northern Sarawak, Malaysia.

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  • Fadzilah Majid Cooke, 2002. "Vulnerability, Control and Oil Palm in Sarawak: Globalization and a New Era?," Development and Change, International Institute of Social Studies, vol. 33(2), pages 189-211, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:devchg:v:33:y:2002:i:2:p:189-211
    DOI: 10.1111/1467-7660.00247
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    1. Cramb, R.A., 2013. "Palmed Off: Incentive Problems with Joint-Venture Schemes for Oil Palm Development on Customary Land," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 43(C), pages 84-99.
    2. Cramb, Rob A. & Sujang, Patrick S., 2012. "Pathways through the Plantation: Oil Palm Smallholders and Livelihood Strategies in Sarawak, Malaysia," 2012 Conference (56th), February 7-10, 2012, Fremantle, Australia 124277, Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society.
    3. Cramb, Rob A. & Ferraro, Deanna, 2010. "Custom and Capital: A Financial Appraisal of Alternative Arrangements for Large-Scale Oil Palm Development on Customary Land in Sarawak, Malaysia," 2010 Conference (54th), February 10-12, 2010, Adelaide, Australia 59072, Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society.
    4. Montefrio, Marvin Joseph F. & Dressler, Wolfram H., 2016. "The Green Economy and Constructions of the “Idle” and “Unproductive” Uplands in the Philippines," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 79(C), pages 114-126.
    5. Dewi, Sonya & Belcher, Brian & Puntodewo, Atie, 2005. "Village economic opportunity, forest dependence, and rural livelihoods in East Kalimantan, Indonesia," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 33(9), pages 1419-1434, September.
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    7. Wong, Grace Y. & Holm, Minda & Pietarinen, Niina & Ville, Alizee & Brockhaus, Maria, 2022. "The making of resource frontier spaces in the Congo Basin and Southeast Asia: A critical analysis of narratives, actors and drivers in the scientific literature," World Development Perspectives, Elsevier, vol. 27(C).
    8. McCarthy, John F. & Gillespie, Piers & Zen, Zahari, 2012. "Swimming Upstream: Local Indonesian Production Networks in “Globalized” Palm Oil Production," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 40(3), pages 555-569.

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