In 2004, Navjot Sodhi and colleagues warned that logging and agricultural conversion of
Southeast Asia's forests were leading to a biodiversity disaster. We evaluate this prediction …

Oil palm is one of the world's most rapidly increasing crops. We assess its contribution to
tropical deforestation and review its biodiversity value. Oil palm has replaced large areas of …

For both the positive economic benefit and the negative ecological impact of the rapid
expansion of oil palm plantations in tropical developing countries, it is significant to achieve …

Activists have exposed startling forms of labor exploitation and environmental degradation in
global industries, leading many large retailers and brands to adopt standards for fairness …

Human activities are causing Earth's sixth major extinction event—an accelerating decline of
the world's stocks of biological diversity at rates 100 to 1,000 times pre-human levels …

Our knowledge about land-use impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning is mostly
limited to single trophic levels, leaving us uncertain about whole-community biodiversity …

A major challenge in transforming development to inclusive, sustainable pathways is the
pervasive and persistent trade-off between provisioning services (eg, agricultural …

Oil palm is one of the world's most rapidly expanding equatorial crops. The two largest oil
palm‐producing countries—Indonesia and Malaysia—are located in Southeast Asia, a …

By extensively reviewing the current state of knowledge, this paper explores the
sustainability implications of palm oil biodiesel in Southeast Asia, with a focus on Indonesia …

The biodiversity and climate consequences of oil palm (Elaeis guineensis) expansion
across South East Asia have received considerable attention. The human side of the issue …