This article analyses whether forced displacement in the Magdalena Department (Colombia) between 2000-2010 was caused not only by the intensity of the armed conflict but also by the growth of the palm agribusiness. We find that a seven percentage point increase in the area used to produce palm per municipality caused an increase of a third of a standard deviation in the rate of forced displacement. These calculations were made on average and after controlling for armed conflict. We rationalize this finding by the fact that the development of the palm oil agribusiness caused displacement due to its land-intensive technology, increasing international prices combined with government subsidies, and the process was aided by paramilitary activiti...
There are narrow lines that relate the forced displacement, violence and armed conflict. It is possi...
Background: The global palm oil market experienced a remarkable boom since the year 2000. Since palm...
Internal armed conflict severely inhibits economic growth according to a prominent set of civil war ...
This article analyses whether forced displacement in the Magdalena Department (Colombia) between 200...
Some 5 million people were classified as internally displaced in Colombia at the end of 2012, which ...
Between 1993 and 2015 the land planted to oil palm in Colombia increased fourfold, from 119,000ha to...
The cultivation of the African Palm illustrates one of the clearest worldwide tendencies of change i...
El siguiente estudio examina a través de un balance documental cómo están asociados los fenómenos de...
This article describes the mechanisms through which the transition from banana to oil palm plantatio...
Palm oil production has been steadily growing worldwide since the end of the 20th century and has in...
Anecdotal evidence suggests that, in stateless regions in Colombia, the establishment of oil palm 1 ...
The main idea of this article is to deep the entail between occupancy earth and obliga- tory displac...
The palm oil industry is growing globally and palm oil is today the most used vegetable oil for biof...
El conflicto armado Colombiano es el responsable de un sin número de modalidades de victimización a ...
In 2012 the Colombian government and the FARC guerrilla commenced peace talks for the first time in...
There are narrow lines that relate the forced displacement, violence and armed conflict. It is possi...
Background: The global palm oil market experienced a remarkable boom since the year 2000. Since palm...
Internal armed conflict severely inhibits economic growth according to a prominent set of civil war ...
This article analyses whether forced displacement in the Magdalena Department (Colombia) between 200...
Some 5 million people were classified as internally displaced in Colombia at the end of 2012, which ...
Between 1993 and 2015 the land planted to oil palm in Colombia increased fourfold, from 119,000ha to...
The cultivation of the African Palm illustrates one of the clearest worldwide tendencies of change i...
El siguiente estudio examina a través de un balance documental cómo están asociados los fenómenos de...
This article describes the mechanisms through which the transition from banana to oil palm plantatio...
Palm oil production has been steadily growing worldwide since the end of the 20th century and has in...
Anecdotal evidence suggests that, in stateless regions in Colombia, the establishment of oil palm 1 ...
The main idea of this article is to deep the entail between occupancy earth and obliga- tory displac...
The palm oil industry is growing globally and palm oil is today the most used vegetable oil for biof...
El conflicto armado Colombiano es el responsable de un sin número de modalidades de victimización a ...
In 2012 the Colombian government and the FARC guerrilla commenced peace talks for the first time in...
There are narrow lines that relate the forced displacement, violence and armed conflict. It is possi...
Background: The global palm oil market experienced a remarkable boom since the year 2000. Since palm...
Internal armed conflict severely inhibits economic growth according to a prominent set of civil war ...