Contributions de la production d’huile de palme au développement durable

Problématique générale, controverses

TA 179, 4, avenue Agropolis, 34388 Montpellier Cedex 5, France

^* hubert.omont@cirad.fr

Abstract

Cultivation of oil palm is the subject of controversy. It is necessary to place these debates in their global context. Three aspects of this context will be particularly developed: the rapid expansion of oil palm cultivation over the last three or four decades, the consequences of this expansion and the controversies and debates it raises, the initiatives to put palm oil in a sustainable development perspective.