Social transformation processes and sustainable resource use in rural Jambi (C02)

• Subject Area: Human Geography
• Term: from 2012 to 2023
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 192626868

This project will focus on three main objectives regarding sustainable landscape development in Jambi: i) explanation how global initiatives of sustainable palm oil and rubber certifications affect local perceptions and discourses on sustainability, production processes, and social organization, ii) explanation how impending oil palm and rubber replanting processes influence smallholder livelihoods, and how such processes offer opportunities for more sustainable land use, and iii) identification of policies and institutions for a sustainable resource use beside certification schemes on different scales. The project will apply qualitative case studies, participatory tools, as well as a standardized survey.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 990: Ecological and Socioeconomic Functions of Tropical Lowland Rainforest Transformation Systems (Sumatra, Indonesia)
• Applicant Institution: Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
• Project Heads: Professor Dr. Christoph Dittrich, until 12/2015; Professor Dr. Heiko Faust