Taking the Bitter with the Sweet: Sugarcane's Return as a Driver of Tropical Deforestation

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dc.creatorObidzinski, K.
dc.creatorKusters, K.
dc.creatorGnych, S.
dc.date2015-11
dc.date2018-07-03T11:02:41Z
dc.date2018-07-03T11:02:41Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T13:59:04Z
dc.descriptionOver more than 400 years, large areas of tropical forest in Brazil, the Caribbean, the Philippines, Australia, and other parts of the world were cleared to make way for sugarcane plantations. There is a general consensus in the scientific community that since the 1950s, the frontier expansion of sugarcane has stabilized and direct pressure on tropical forests from sugarcane expansion has diminished. Here, we show, however, that sugarcane plantations are on the cusp of returning as a major driver of deforestation in Indonesia. The Indonesian government has developed preferential policies designed to boost sugar production in the name of national food security, and is seeking to convert more than 1 million hectares of tropical forest into sugarcane plantations. If fully developed, the plantation expansion program will undermine Indonesia's goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The scale of the expansion program is such that it will radically alter the global environmental impact of sugarcane.
dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/95266
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/70228
dc.languageen
dc.publisherWiley
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourceObidzinski, K., Kusters, K., Gnych, S.. 2015. Taking the Bitter with the Sweet : Sugarcane's Return as a Driver of Tropical Deforestation. Conservation Letters, 8 (6) : 449-455. https://doi.org/10.1111/conl.12172
dc.subjectagricultural development
dc.subjectagriculture
dc.subjectdeforestation
dc.subjectfood security
dc.subjecttropical forests
dc.subjectecology
dc.titleTaking the Bitter with the Sweet: Sugarcane's Return as a Driver of Tropical Deforestation
dc.typeJournal Article

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