The diversity of small-scale oil palm cultivation in Sarawak, Malaysia
The diversity of small-scale oil palm cultivation in Sarawak, Malaysia
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马来西亚砂拉越小规模油棕种植的多样性
DOI：
10.1111/geoj.12152
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发表时间：
2015
影响因子：
3
通讯作者：
J.
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作者：
Soda;R.;Kato;Y.;Hon;J.
本研究的目的是描述婆罗洲岛上出现的土地利用模式，在其土著人口的油棕榈繁荣之后。在2004年至2013年期间，在马来西亚沙捞越州的一个选定的油棕榈种植村，使用高分辨率卫星图像数据对土着土地使用变化进行了深入研究，以研究油棕榈种植的空间分布。结果发现，油棕是不规则的，随机分布。与村民的访谈结果进一步揭示了油棕榈种植行为者的多样性，并展示了这种多样性如何与村民的土地使用选择和决策有关。从种植园管理的角度来看，小规模油棕种植的镶嵌式和斑块式种植显得效率低下且不合理。然而，村民的土地使用行为符合其传统的土地保有权习俗，使他们能够在油棕榈价格大幅下跌的情况下获得多样化的机会主义土地使用选择。村民扩大油棕种植的理由还来自于他们与对他们的土地感兴趣的各种行为者的复杂关系，包括种植园、城市华人和中小型开发商。重要的是在这些不同的利益相关者之间建立平衡的关系，以保持马赛克般的村庄景观，并实现砂拉越农村油棕种植的可持续发展。
The purpose of this study was to describe the patterns of land use that have emerged on the island of Borneo in the wake of an oil palm boom in its indigenous population. An in‐depth examination of indigenous land‐use changes between 2004 and 2013 in a selected oil palm farming village in Sarawak, Malaysia was conducted using data derived from high‐resolution satellite images to examine the spatial distribution of oil palm cultivation. The results found that oil palms are irregularly and randomly distributed. The results of interviews with villagers further revealed a diversity of oil palm planting actors and demonstrated how this diversity relates to villagers' land‐use options and decision‐making. From the viewpoint of plantation management, the mosaic and patchy cultivation of small‐scale oil palm farming appears inefficient and irrational. However, villagers' land‐use behaviours conform to their traditional land tenure customs and allow them to secure diverse opportunistic land‐use options to survive in the event of a sharp drop in the price of oil palm. The villagers' rationale for oil palm expansion also derives from their complex relationships with the diversity of actors that have interest in their land, including plantations, urban Chinese, and small‐ and middle‐scale developers. It is important to create balanced relationships among these diverse stakeholders in order to maintain mosaic‐like village landscape and realise sustainable development of oil palm cultivation in rural Sarawak.