The effects of rural development policy on land rights distribution and land use scenarios: The case of oil palm in the Peruvian Amazon

• Published in: Land use policy Vol. 70; pp. 84 - 93
• Main Authors: Bennett, Aoife, Ravikumar, Ashwin, Cronkleton, Peter
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier Ltd 01.01.2018
• Subjects: Amazon; Land-titling; Oil palm; Peru; Smallholders; Land-titling; Amazon; Peru; Oil palm; Smallholders

Decades of development history show that rural agricultural policies and government support for specific en vogue crops can seriously alter land rights, land tenure regimes and land use strategies for local people in tropical forests. Today, oil palm is such a crop, and it is an emergent commodity t...