Smallholder productivity, market access, and international linkages in rubber and palm oil production in Jambi Province (C01)

Jambi的转型进程仍在迅速进行，土地用途的变化不断扩大，主要是转向油棕榈树，但更有限的是转向橡胶。在过去的几年里，小农户面临着棕榈油和橡胶价格波动不定、往往极低的问题。这些趋势在价值链上引发了影响，特别是对小农的管理做法和贸易商一级的结构变化产生了影响。在农场一级，该项目将分析技术和环境效率的动态变化，而在贸易商一级，贸易网络的变化将是重点。综合这两个方面，我们将能够得出橡胶和棕榈油价值链更好发挥作用的建议。

Transformation processes in Jambi continue rapidly, with expanding land use change mainly towards oil palm and – more limited – towards rubber. In the past years, smallholders were confronted with volatile and often extremely low prices for palm oil and rubber. These trends triggered effects along the value chain, in particular on management practices of smallholders, and on structural change at the trader level. At the farm level, this project will analyse the dynamics of technical and environmental efficiency, while at the trader level, changes in trade networks will be in the focus. Synthesizing both aspects will allow us to derive recommendations for a better functioning of the value chains for rubber and palm oil.