Michael D Pashkevich, Cicely A M Marshall, Benedictus Freeman, Valentine J Reiss-Woolever, Jean-Pierre Caliman, Julia Drewer, Becky Heath, Matthew T Hendren, Ari Saputra, Jake Stone, Jonathan H Timperley, William Draper, Abednego Gbarway, Bility Geninyan, Blamah Goll, Marshall Guahn, Andrew N Gweh, Peter Hadfield, Morris T Jah, Samuel Jayswen, Tiecanna Jones, Samuel Kandie, Daniel Koffa, Judith Korb, Nehemiah Koon, Benedict Manewah, Lourdes M Medrano, Ana F Palmeirim, Brogan Pett, Ricardo Rocha, Evangeline Swope-Nyantee, Jimmy Tue, Josiah Tuolee, Pieter Van Dessel, Abraham Vincent, Romeo Weah, Rudy Widodo, Alfred J Yennego, Jerry Yonmah, Edgar C Turner
Agriculture is expanding rapidly across the tropics. While cultivation can boost socioeconomic conditions and food security, it also threatens native ecosystems. Oil palm (Elaeis guineensis), which is grown pantropically, is the most productive vegetable oil crop worldwide. The impacts of oil palm cultivation have been studied extensively in Southeast Asia and - to a lesser extent - in Latin America but, in comparison, very little is known about its impacts in Africa: oil palm's native range, and where cultivation is expanding rapidly...
March 21, 2024: Science of the Total Environment