Ebook: The tropical oil crop revolution : food, feed, fuel, and forests
- Tags: Oil industries, Tropics, Oilseed plants, Economic aspects, Tropics, Tropical plants, Economic aspects
- Year: 2016
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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The work provides a broad synthesis of the major supply and demand drivers of the dramatic expansion of oil crops in the tropics; its economic, social, and environmental impacts; and the future outlook to 2050. It is a comprehensive review of the oil crop sector with a major focus on oil palm and soybeans, the two most dynamic crops in world agriculture in recent decades.
Abstract: The work provides a broad synthesis of the major supply and demand drivers of the dramatic expansion of oil crops in the tropics; its economic, social, and environmental impacts; and the future outlook to 2050. It is a comprehensive review of the oil crop sector with a major focus on oil palm and soybeans, the two most dynamic crops in world agriculture in recent decades