Sustained interest by the business community in commercial agriculture in the global South
has been welcomed for its potential to bring capital into long neglected rural areas, but has …

The global palm oil value chain has grown in complexity; stakeholder relationships and
linkages are increasingly shaped by new public and private standards that aim to ameliorate …

Research on extractivism has rapidly proliferated, expanding into new empirical and
conceptual spaces. We examine the origins, evolution, and conceptual expansion of the …

The book provides for a historical-materialist understanding of the multiple crises of
capitalism, focusing on the ecological crisis and its interaction with other crisis phenomena …

Enhancing smallholder compliance with sustainability standards and good agricultural
practices features prominently on the global sustainability agenda. Operating in a sector that …

This paper reviews previous research on the sustainability and policies of palm oil-based
bioenergy in Indonesia and Malaysia. A systematic literature review with a meta-analysis …

The rapid expansion of oil palm plantations in Indonesia has generated a large and growing
number of protests against palm oil companies over, mainly, access to land. So far, these …

This paper reframes the ocean-grabbing literature by moving beyond accounts where small-
scale producers and communities are portrayed as only victims of states and capital. While …

Ecosystem services (ES) assessments commonly focus on a specific biophysical region or
nation and take its geographic borders as the system boundary. Most geographical regions …

Four trends would seem to be empowering environmentalists who target corporations with
global brands: the increasing reach of social media, growing numbers of campaigns, the …