Ecological management to benefit ecosystem services and sustainable production in smallholder oil palm systems in Malaysia and Indonesia
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Cambridge
Department Name: Zoology
Abstract
This project will build on a large-scale experimental project, based within large industrial oil palm plantations in Riau, Indonesia, that investigated the impact of varying herbicide use and manual cutting of understory vegetation on biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, resilience to drought, and palm oil yield. Key findings from the work included a positive effect of reducing herbicide use and allowing more understory vegetation to grow on predator numbers, plant diversity, soil biodiversity, rate of decomposition and below ground processes, but with only limited impacts on GHG emissions and yield. In addition to benefitting biodiversity and ecosystem processes in oil palm, reducing levels of herbicide spraying can also potentially save money and pollution risk through runoff of herbicides into waterways . Although these findings have been well-publicised for large-scale industrial plantations, they have not yet been disseminated to small-scale farmers ("smallholders"), although they produce roughly 40% of palm oil production in Indonesia and Malaysia.
This project brings together a strong team of researchers and practitioners from the UK (University of Cambridge and NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH)), Indonesia (IPB University (Bogor Agricultural University) and Sinar Mas Agro Research and Technology Research Institute (SMARTRI)) and Malaysia (Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) and Wild Asia), who have expertise in oil palm management, experience of working with smallholders, and a diverse range of viewpoints (researcher, industry and NGO). Using existing strong connections between project team members and the smallholder community, this project will run workshops with networks of smallholders in both Indonesia and Malaysia, to promote uptake of management recommendations from the previous project and solicit feedback from smallholders on the feasibility of using different understory management options within their farms. To assess whether findings from the original project also hold true in a smallholder context, we will measure biodiversity, ecosystem functioning (including GHG emissions) and yield across a range of smallholder plantations that currently use different understory management practices. We will then experimentally trial three different understory management options within smallholder farms that currently have low levels of understory vegetation. We will collect data on biodiversity, ecosystem functioning and yield within these areas as before and use results to identify management options that benefit both biodiversity, ecosystem processes and food production.
We will ensure outcomes from the project are disseminated clearly with opportunities for feedback, by running workshops and field visits with participating smallholders in both Indonesia and Malaysia. We will also work with sustainability schemes, such as the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) to make sure that results feed into sustainability guidelines, promoting the uptake of successful management options on a wider scale and over a longer timeframe than this project alone can achieve. By identifying management options that promote more environmentally friendly palm oil production, greater diversity of crops, as well as reduced herbicide applications, the results of this work have the potential to benefit the environment, as well as smallholder productivity, health, income and food security.
This project brings together a strong team of researchers and practitioners from the UK (University of Cambridge and NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH)), Indonesia (IPB University (Bogor Agricultural University) and Sinar Mas Agro Research and Technology Research Institute (SMARTRI)) and Malaysia (Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) and Wild Asia), who have expertise in oil palm management, experience of working with smallholders, and a diverse range of viewpoints (researcher, industry and NGO). Using existing strong connections between project team members and the smallholder community, this project will run workshops with networks of smallholders in both Indonesia and Malaysia, to promote uptake of management recommendations from the previous project and solicit feedback from smallholders on the feasibility of using different understory management options within their farms. To assess whether findings from the original project also hold true in a smallholder context, we will measure biodiversity, ecosystem functioning (including GHG emissions) and yield across a range of smallholder plantations that currently use different understory management practices. We will then experimentally trial three different understory management options within smallholder farms that currently have low levels of understory vegetation. We will collect data on biodiversity, ecosystem functioning and yield within these areas as before and use results to identify management options that benefit both biodiversity, ecosystem processes and food production.
We will ensure outcomes from the project are disseminated clearly with opportunities for feedback, by running workshops and field visits with participating smallholders in both Indonesia and Malaysia. We will also work with sustainability schemes, such as the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) to make sure that results feed into sustainability guidelines, promoting the uptake of successful management options on a wider scale and over a longer timeframe than this project alone can achieve. By identifying management options that promote more environmentally friendly palm oil production, greater diversity of crops, as well as reduced herbicide applications, the results of this work have the potential to benefit the environment, as well as smallholder productivity, health, income and food security.
Planned Impact
This project has a wide range of beneficiaries. At the core of the project are smallholders in both Indonesia and Malaysia. By working with smallholders throughout the project, liaising with smallholders to receive feedback on understory vegetation management practices, and directly trialling the impacts of different practices on biodiversity, ecosystem processes, yield, profitability and food security, we will ensure that results are smallholder-relevant. Particular benefits to smallholders include: health benefits through reduced exposure to herbicides and access to a greater diversity of food, economic profitability through reduced outlay on herbicides, and food security through the promotion of a more diverse understory cropping system. Smallholders may also benefit from being part of a network established through this project, allowing access to expert guidance from both academic researchers and large-scale plantation researchers. The design of workshops with gender, ethnicity and religion in mind, will ensure that these benefits apply equally to the whole smallholder community.
Our diverse research team, budgeted attendance at relevant meetings, production of a stand at the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), close liaison with industry sustainability schemes, and production of dissemination material geared towards applied outcomes of the work, will ensure that our findings have impact after the initial timeframe of the project and beyond the geographic range of the current work. With an estimated 18.7 million hectares of industrial oil palm and an additional 12.5 million hectares of smallholder plantations worldwide, this project therefore has the potential to influence management practices on over 30 million hectares of plantations. Based on an estimated one worker being employed per 8 hectares of oil palm, our findings could therefore benefit over 1.5 million smallholders. Potential benefits include health benefits, economic profitability, and food security, as detailed above, for both industrial and smallholder oil palm workers.
This project will also benefit communities living around and particularly downstream of oil palm areas worldwide. Application of herbicides and increased soil runoff as a result of limited understory vegetation in oil palm plantations can have negative impacts on water quality, potentially impacting water use and availability for downstream communities. Through promoting a less intensive management regime in oil palm, with greater retention of understory vegetation or planting of additional understory crops, this project could reduce erosion rates and therefore improve downstream water quality.
Finally, the organisations and individuals involved in this project will benefit through the development of an enhanced network of collaborators. Although combinations of all participating organisations have already worked together, this is the first time that all organisations in this proposal are working together on a single project, bringing benefits of diverse viewpoints for all organisations and fostering future collaborations. Tangible benefits include bespoke training of research assistants from both IPB University (Bogor Agricultural University) and Wild Asia, increasing their skill sets in biodiversity monitoring and ecological assessment. Our project team includes early-career, mid-career and established researchers, providing a chance to network across different levels of experience. For earlier career researchers it will also provide important opportunities to attend and present at meetings and to increase their research profile.
Our diverse research team, budgeted attendance at relevant meetings, production of a stand at the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), close liaison with industry sustainability schemes, and production of dissemination material geared towards applied outcomes of the work, will ensure that our findings have impact after the initial timeframe of the project and beyond the geographic range of the current work. With an estimated 18.7 million hectares of industrial oil palm and an additional 12.5 million hectares of smallholder plantations worldwide, this project therefore has the potential to influence management practices on over 30 million hectares of plantations. Based on an estimated one worker being employed per 8 hectares of oil palm, our findings could therefore benefit over 1.5 million smallholders. Potential benefits include health benefits, economic profitability, and food security, as detailed above, for both industrial and smallholder oil palm workers.
This project will also benefit communities living around and particularly downstream of oil palm areas worldwide. Application of herbicides and increased soil runoff as a result of limited understory vegetation in oil palm plantations can have negative impacts on water quality, potentially impacting water use and availability for downstream communities. Through promoting a less intensive management regime in oil palm, with greater retention of understory vegetation or planting of additional understory crops, this project could reduce erosion rates and therefore improve downstream water quality.
Finally, the organisations and individuals involved in this project will benefit through the development of an enhanced network of collaborators. Although combinations of all participating organisations have already worked together, this is the first time that all organisations in this proposal are working together on a single project, bringing benefits of diverse viewpoints for all organisations and fostering future collaborations. Tangible benefits include bespoke training of research assistants from both IPB University (Bogor Agricultural University) and Wild Asia, increasing their skill sets in biodiversity monitoring and ecological assessment. Our project team includes early-career, mid-career and established researchers, providing a chance to network across different levels of experience. For earlier career researchers it will also provide important opportunities to attend and present at meetings and to increase their research profile.
Organisations
- University of Cambridge (Lead Research Organisation)
- Natural Environment Research Council (Co-funder)
- SMART Research Institute (Collaboration)
- IPB University (Collaboration)
- UK CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY & HYDROLOGY (Collaboration)
- Putra Malaysia University (Collaboration)
- Wild Asia (Collaboration)
- Wild Asia Sdn Bhd (Project Partner)
- SMARTRI (Project Partner)
Publications
Bhatia A
(2023)
The impact of different fertiliser management options and cultivars on nitrogen use efficiency and yield for rice cropping in the Indo-Gangetic Plain: Two seasons of methane, nitrous oxide and ammonia emissions
in Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment
Harianja M
(2024)
How do management decisions impact butterfly assemblages in smallholding oil palm plantations in Peninsular Malaysia?
in Journal of Applied Ecology
Pashkevich M
(2022)
Nine actions to successfully restore tropical agroecosystems.
Pashkevich M
(2022)
Nine actions to successfully restore tropical agroecosystems
in Trends in Ecology & Evolution
| Description | Key achievements We have disseminated results and discussed previous research findings with 49 smallholder farmer households in Perak, Malaysia, 27 smallholders in Selangor, Malaysia, and 46 smallholders in Riau, Indonesia, including providing each with accessible printed material in the appropriate language. We have also completed social surveys with the same smallholders, collecting detailed information on demographics, management practices, environmental awareness and yield. We have also completed environmental and biodiversity surveys, recording data on microclimate, habitat complexity, and soil conditions; collecting data on focal taxa including flying invertebrate abundance, butterfly and spider counts, and recording information on herbivory and predation. We produced key summary outputs from this work that we have shared with smallholders in workshops in each country. Through a follow-up GCRF and Newton Consolidation Accounts Research Fund Award, we have been able to complete experimental parts of the project, working with a subset of our smallholder collaborators to experimentally assess the impacts of understory herbicide spraying on environmental conditions, and biodiversity, as well as carry out Greenhouse gas (GHG) measurements at a wider range of sites. Research findings We are currently writing up findings from the project or awaiting reviewer comments on papers (two currently in review), but it is already clear that there is a high diversity of approaches in management across smallholders, particularly in the level of chemical application. Depending on the results of our specific analyses, this could have a large impact on the environment, profits of individual farmers, as well as potentially health and welfare, and is therefore of ODA relevance to both Malaysia and Indonesia. Non-Research findings Through our activities, we have established a network of >100 smallholder farmers across Malaysia and Indonesia working on this project and have disseminated information on the impacts of alternative management practices to this group in 1:1 interviews and during workshops. We were careful to ensure that these workshops were as accessible as possible and encouraged feedback from all smallholders. We also provided personalised certificates of participation to all smallholders, highlighting their key role in the work. Our network provides significant capacity for future work and for disseminating findings and management recommendations that could support the crop production, economic profitability, and welfare of smallholders in both Malaysia and Indonesia. Future capacity and projects This project supported training and skill development in ecological survey techniques and GHG measurements for two research assistants from IPB, as well as Wild Asia staff, supporting further work in this area and career progression of staff. The network of smallholders we have developed in this project supported a new research project, funded by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, which will identify options for restoring river systems in smallholder and industrial oil palm plantations. This continues to employ an early-career research assistant at IPB University, a postdoctoral research assistant position at the University of Cambridge, and a postdoctoral research assistant position at IPB University. We have also expanded our work as a result of the core grant to develop research in Liberia, led by a early-career researcher, and working with both Industrial Plantations (Golden Veroleum Liberia) and smallholder farmers to collect related ecological and biodiversity data (project funded by the linked BBSRC Impact Acceleration Account, "Co-developing a collaborative network to measure impacts of management on industrial agricultural ecosystems in Liberia"). |
| Exploitation Route | Our data will provide information for future researchers, to investigate the potential of alternative smallholder management practices to reduce the environmental costs of palm oil production. This could include researchers from academic institutions, as well as NGO and industry researchers working on oil palm sustainability. Through disseminating our findings to organisations such as the RSPO, we hope that this research will inform the refinement of sustainability guidelines. The network of smallholders and collaborators we have established on this project also represents a resource for future engagement and research, facilitating dissemination of findings and feedback from oil palm farmers on management practices, as well as directly influencing management practices for smallholders involved in this project. |
| Sectors | Agriculture Food and Drink Environment |
| Description | 1. Societal and economic impact in DAC listed countries. Between 2021-2022, our team visited or spoke on the phone to 49 smallholder farmer households in Perak Malaysia, 27 smallholders in Selangor Malaysia, and 46 smallholders in Riau, Indonesia, to discuss and disseminate findings (both verbally and in an accessible written format) from our previous work on the impacts of alternative understory management practices in oil palm on the environment. We have then continued to work with all these individuals on the project to assess their current management practices and the impacts of practices on the environment, including presenting results of this work and soliciting feedback on our findings in two workshops (in June and July 2022), based locally. This has increased access to alternative management approaches for a large number of smallholders. We also disseminated findings from our work through a poster and Wild Asia-hosted stand at the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) Annual Conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in November 2022. Our project therefore has the potential to improve oil palm management and profitability, as well as environmental conditions, for participating smallholders, as well as more-widely. Within our project team, our project has supported the career developments of early career researchers working on this project in both Malaysia and Indonesia, through training in research techniques, as well as funding a research visit by one of the IPB research assistants to sites in Wild Asia, before the Wild Asia and IPB staff attended the RSPO conference. 2. Sustainable Development Goals addressed It is still too early to say whether this project has resulted in changes in management by smallholders or whether our published findings will be incorporated into sustainability guidance. If this happens, it could reduce some of the negative impacts of high chemical applications by oil palm managers, potentially reducing negative impacts of cultivation on the environment, biodiversity and human health. As such, impacts are of particular relevance to SDGs 3, 12, and 15. 3. Gender equality Following the approach we outlined in our Gender Equality Statement, we have been careful to ensure that we were not selective in choice of smallholder to work with on the project, except with regards management advice and location. We were also careful to conduct interviews or calls at times that worked for smallholders, ensuring that gender or religious belief did not affect ability to participate. As a result, we have a mix of smallholders represented (e.g. 11 female and 39 male smallholders in Perak, Malaysia), and have been able to disseminate findings from our project and receive feedback from a broad mix of farmers, ensuring that all farmers benefit, irrespective of gender. At our workshops farmers reported that they were keen to collaborate in future projects. In publications resulting from the work, we are including gender of participating smallholders in analyses as one of a range of demographic factors, to assess any potential impacts on management approaches, yield and economic outputs. Within our team, we advertised widely for new posts supported by the project, ensuring that a good mix of applicants applied. Initially this resulted in one male and one female research assistant being employed in the project in both Malaysia and Indonesia, although one of the research assistants in Indonesia decided not to take up the post and so a male runner-up applicant was offered the position instead. The rest of the team, across Malaysian, Indonesian and UK Institutions is similarly equally balanced, being roughly 1:1 female to male across collaborators. As a result, the project has supported the careers of a wide range of individuals, including four early-career researchers and conservation practitioners directly employed by the project in Malaysia and Indonesia. The Cambridge PDRA, an early career female researcher, has now left the project to take on a new PI role, again supported by this position. Two female supporting members of staff from Wild Asia have also left the team in the last year to take up roles in an agricultural development authority, and to return to academic studies for an MSc. 4. Supporting further research collaboration and future funding This project has supported five additional successful funding applications (see relevant sections), which have resulted in the successful set-up of a new large-scale research project with new partners in Liberia, including setting up a network of 54 monitoring plots across rainforest, smallholder oil palm, and industrial oil palm systems (BBSRC Impact Acceleration Account, Co-developing a collaborative network to measure impacts of management on industrial agricultural ecosystems in Liberia); the expansion of the current project (GCRF and Newton Consolidation Accounts Research Fund Award G118358); the development of a new smallholder project , including partners on this project, to study smallholder management in riparian areas (funded by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation); additional funding to support two early-career SMARTRI researchers visiting Cambridge and CEH (BBSRC Additional Institutional Support Funding), and funding to carry out further greenhouse gas work in our partner project in Liberia (NERC Seedcorn funding for project "Addressing environmental impacts of oil palm expansion in Liberia/Africa", led by Julia Drewer, CEH). This represents a significant expansion in the current research focus into another ODA country (Liberia), as well as providing important training and knowledge-exchange for researchers across Indonesia, Malaysia, and Liberia. For our new riparian project, we again advertised widely for new posts (one postdoctoral position in Cambridge and one in IPB), and have employed one female early career researcher in Cambridge and one male early career researcher in IPB, who are now working together collaboratively on the project. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2023 |
| Sector | Agriculture, Food and Drink,Environment |
| Impact Types | Societal |
| Description | Additional Institutional Support Funding to support international partnerships, through University of Cambridge |
| Amount | £7,081 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | G118588 |
| Organisation | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 12/2022 |
| End | 03/2023 |
| Description | Addressing environmental impacts of oil palm expansion in Liberia/Africa - Seedcorn funding |
| Amount | £100,994 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | NE/Y003136/1 |
| Organisation | UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 11/2023 |
| End | 11/2025 |
| Description | BBSRC IAA (Co-developing a collaborative network to measure impacts of management on industrial agricultural ecosystems in Liberia) |
| Amount | £8,936 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | RG96069 |
| Organisation | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2022 |
| End | 03/2022 |
| Description | Identifying options for restoring river systems in smallholder and industrial oil palm plantations in Indonesia |
| Amount | $35,000 (USD) |
| Funding ID | #2022-73445 |
| Organisation | David and Lucile Packard Foundation |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United States |
| Start | 02/2023 |
| End | 03/2024 |
| Description | ODA GCRF and Newton Consolidation Accounts Research Award |
| Amount | £72,697 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | G118358 |
| Organisation | United Kingdom Research and Innovation |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 12/2022 |
| End | 03/2023 |
| Title | Socioecological data from smallholder oil palm plantations in Perak, Peninsular Malaysia, 2021-2022 |
| Description | This dataset includes results from biodiversity, social and environmental surveys of 49 oil palm smallholders and farms in Perak, Malaysia. Biodiversity data includes: pitfall trap data on arthropod abundance and higher-level order identification, sticky trap data on flying invertebrate abundance (identified to higher-level order), transect data on assassin bugs, Nephila spp. spiders and butterflies (identified to species), and data on meal worm removal from each plot. Environmental data includes: soil temperature readings recorded over 24 hours, information on size of plot, crop type and cover, GPS location, vegetation cover, vegetation height, canopy density, epiphyte cover, soil pH, soil moisture, leaf litter depth, horizon depths, palm herbivory and palm health. Social data includes information (all anonymised) on: plot area, number of palms, sociodemographic data, plantation management practices applied, knowledge and value assigned to wildlife, and yield. Data were collected from December 2021 to July 2022. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | NA - currently being used for preparation of publications. |
| Title | Socioecological data from smallholder oil palm plantations in Riau, Sumatra, Indonesia, 2021-2022 |
| Description | This dataset includes results from biodiversity, social and environmental surveys of 46 oil palm smallholders and farms in Riau, Indonesia. Biodiversity data includes: pitfall trap data on arthropod abundance and higher-level order identification, sticky trap data on flying invertebrate abundance (identified to higher-level order), transect data on assassin bugs, Nephila spp. spiders and butterflies (identified to species), counts of insects visiting oil palm inflorescences if any open (identified to Elaeidobius kamerunicus and higher-level orders for other groups) and data on meal worm removal from each plot. Environmental data includes: soil temperature readings recorded over 24 hours, information on size of plot, crop type and cover, GPS location, vegetation cover, vegetation height, canopy density, epiphyte cover, soil pH, soil moisture, leaf litter depth, horizon depths, palm herbivory and palm health. Social data includes information (all anonymised) on: plot area, number of palms, sociodemographic data, plantation management practices applied, knowledge and value assigned to wildlife, and yield. Data were collected from November 2021 to June 2022 |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | NA - currently being used for preparation of publications. |
| Title | Socioecological data from smallholder oil palm plantations in Riau, Sumatra, Indonesia, 2021-2022 |
| Description | This dataset includes results from biodiversity, social and environmental surveys of 46 oil palm smallholders and farms in Riau, Indonesia. Biodiversity data includes: pitfall trap data on arthropod abundance and higher-level order identification, sticky trap data on flying invertebrate abundance (identified to higher-level order), transect data on assassin bugs, Nephila spp. spiders and butterflies (identified to species), counts of insects visiting oil palm inflorescences if any open (identified to Elaeidobius kamerunicus and higher-level orders for other groups) and data on meal worm removal from each plot. Environmental data includes: soil temperature readings recorded over 24 hours, information on size of plot, crop type and cover, GPS location, vegetation cover, vegetation height, canopy density, epiphyte cover, soil pH, soil moisture, leaf litter depth, horizon depths, palm herbivory and palm health. Social data includes information (all anonymised) on: plot area, number of palms, sociodemographic data, plantation management practices applied, knowledge and value assigned to wildlife, and yield. Data were collected from November 2021 to June 2022. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Results of this project have been fed back to all contributing smallholder farmers in the local language. Farmers contributed fully to these discussions and considered altering their management options as a result. Results were presented to industry at the 2023 Roundtable on Sustainable Oil Palm annual meeting as part of a Wild Asia stall (partners on this project) |
| URL | https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/b61a12a2-d091-41af-b451-a14de4f4a3c3 |
| Title | Socioecological data from smallholder oil palm plantations in Selangor, Peninsular Malaysia, 2022 |
| Description | This dataset includes results from social and environmental surveys of 27 oil palm smallholders and farms in Selangor, Malaysia. Environmental data includes: information on size of plot, crop type and cover, GPS location, vegetation cover, vegetation height, canopy density, epiphyte cover, soil pH, soil moisture, palm herbivory and palm health. Social data includes information (all anonymised) on: plot area, number of palms, sociodemographic data, plantation management practices applied, knowledge and value assigned to wildlife, and yield. Data were collected from March to September 2022. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Results of this project have been fed back to all contributing smallholder farmers in the local language. Farmers contributed fully to these discussions and considered altering their management options as a result. Results were presented to industry at the 2023 Roundtable on Sustainable Oil Palm annual meeting as part of a Wild Asia stall (partners on this project) |
| URL | https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/81b02484-a87e-4a49-baba-678654059091 |
| Title | Socioecological data from smallholder oil palm plantations in Selangor, Peninsular Malaysia, 2022 |
| Description | This dataset includes results from social and environmental surveys of 27 oil palm smallholders and farms in Selangor, Malaysia. Environmental data includes: information on size of plot, crop type and cover, GPS location, vegetation cover, vegetation height, canopy density, epiphyte cover, soil pH, soil moisture, palm herbivory and palm health. Social data includes information (all anonymised) on: plot area, number of palms, sociodemographic data, plantation management practices applied, knowledge and value assigned to wildlife, and yield. Data were collected from March to September 2022. Data is currently being prepared for submission to EIDC. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | Results of this project have been fed back to all contributing smallholder farmers in the local language. Farmers contributed fully to these discussions and considered altering their management options as a result. Results were presented to industry at the 2023 Roundtable on Sustainable Oil Palm annual meeting as part of a Wild Asia stall (partners on this project) |
| Description | Collaboration between the University of Cambridge, UK and The UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology |
| Organisation | UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Leading on funding bid and designing methodology for project, which this collaboration supports - ODA GCRF and Newton Consolidation Accounts Research Fund, supporting the Translation award grant (BB/T012366/1). Project started in December 2022. Advising field team on survey methods and ongoing remote support for fieldwork. Leading on analysis and write-up of general ecological and social findings. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Design of methodology for project. Remote training of researchers in Indonesia and Malaysia to collect field data. Sharing of greenhouse gas monitoring equipment from previous research. Support of field teams to collect greenhouse gas measurements. Full involvement in discussions related to data interpretation and write-up of findings. Leading on analysis and write-up of greenhouse gas components of project. |
| Impact | 1. None yet - field data collection complete, but dataset not yet submitted. 2. This partnership has continued beyond this project including collaborating on a successful NERC seedcorn funded project (NE/Y003136/1) to carry out more related work in Liberia. |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Collaboration between the University of Cambridge, UK and Universiti Putra Malaysia |
| Organisation | Putra Malaysia University |
| Country | Malaysia |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Leading on funding bid and designing methodology for project - Translation award grant (BB/T012366/1) - due to the impacts of COVID, this project only started in February 2021. Applying for and gaining full University ethics approval for the project. Advising field team on survey methods and ongoing remote support for fieldwork. Leading on data analysis and write-up of findings. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Data collection by field team of both ecological and social data from 24 collaborating smallholders. Full involvement in discussions related to data interpretation and write-up of findings. |
| Impact | 1. Completed social and environmental data collection from 24 smallholders in Banting, Peninsular Malaysia. Data collection included both ecological and social data from collaborating smallholders. 2. Benefits - information fed back to 15 smallholders involved (others not available), in the appropriate language for feedback. This bespoke information will allow smallholders to be better informed about their own management and alternative options. 3. This partnership has continued beyond this project including collaborating on a successful ODA GCRF and Newton Consolidation Accounts Research Fund Award (G118358), and collaborating on a NERC DTP student project. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Collaboration between the University of Cambridge, UK and Wild Asia, a Malaysia based NGO |
| Organisation | Wild Asia |
| Country | Malaysia |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Leading on funding bid and designing methodology for project, which this collaboration supports - ODA GCRF and Newton Consolidation Accounts Research Fund, supporting the Translation award grant (BB/T012366/1). Project started in December 2022. Advising field team on survey methods and remote support for fieldwork. Leading analysis and write-up of findings. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Contact provided with substantial existing network of smallholder farmers. Data collection by field team of both ecological and social data from 49 collaborating smallholders. Full involvement in discussions related to data interpretation and write-up of findings. |
| Impact | 1. Finished data collection from 49 smallholders in Peninsular Malaysia. Data collection included both ecological and social data from collaborating smallholders. Data archived (see relevant section): https://doi.org/10.5285/81b02484-a87e-4a49-baba-678654059091 2. Benefits - information fed back to all individual smallholders involved, in the appropriate language for feedback. We used some of this information to interpret results in research publications, ensuring smallholders also had a voice in publications, as well as all collaborative organisations. This bespoke information will allow smallholders to be better informed about their own management and alternative options. 3. This partnership has continued beyond this project including collaborating on a successful ODA GCRF and Newton Consolidation Accounts Research Fund Award (G118358), and Wild Asia acting as a Case Partner on a submitted NERC DTP PhD project. |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Collaborative agreement between the University of Cambridge, UK and Centre for Ecology and Hydrology |
| Organisation | UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Leading on funding bid and designing methodology for project - Translation award grant (BB/T012366/1) - due to the impacts of COVID, this project only started in February 2021. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Design of methodology for project. Remote training of researchers in Indonesia and Malaysia to collect field data. Sharing of greenhouse gas monitoring equipment from previous research. Will involve ongoing support of field teams to collect greenhouse gas measurements. |
| Impact | GHG emissions collected from smallholder farmers in Perak, Malaysia. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Collaborative agreement between the University of Cambridge, UK and IPB University, Indonesia |
| Organisation | IPB University |
| Country | Indonesia |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Leading on funding bid and designing methodology for project, which this collaboration supports - ODA GCRF and Newton Consolidation Accounts Research Fund, supporting the Translation award grant (BB/T012366/1). Project started in December 2022. Advising field team on survey methods and ongoing remote support for fieldwork. Leading data analysis and write-up of findings. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Visits to 46 smallholder farmers in Riau, Indonesia, to set-up new research permission agreements, and collect novel social, environmental and ecological data. Full involvement in discussions related to data interpretation and write-up of findings. |
| Impact | 1. Finished data collection from 46 smallholders in Riau, Indonesia. Data collection included both ecological and social data from collaborating smallholders. Data archived (see relevant section): https://doi.org/10.5285/b61a12a2-d091-41af-b451-a14de4f4a3c3 2. Benefits - information fed back to all individual smallholders involved, in the appropriate language for feedback. We used some of this information to interpret results in research publications, ensuring smallholders also had a voice in publications, as well as all collaborative organisations. This bespoke information will allow smallholders to be better informed about their own management and alternative options. 3. This partnership has continued beyond this project as part of multiple follow-up awards (most significantly our Lucile and David Packard Foundation-funded project). |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Collaborative agreement between the University of Cambridge, UK and Wild Asia, a Malaysia based NGO |
| Organisation | Wild Asia |
| Country | Malaysia |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Leading on funding bid and designing methodology for project - Translation award grant (BB/T012366/1) - due to the impacts of COVID, this project only started in February 2021. Applying for and gaining full University ethics approval for the project. Advising field team on survey methods and ongoing remote support for fieldwork. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Co-writing and designing methodology. Facilitating contact with smallholder oil palm farmers, including those involved in a large-scale oil palm sustainability initiative (http://oilpalm.wildasia.org/spiral/small-producers/wags/). Dissemination of findings from previous work to 50 smallholder farmers and novel data collection on social, environmental and biodiversity characteristics of plantations. |
| Impact | A socio-ecological project, involving use of questionnaires to collect data on smallholder demographic information, management information, and perceptions of the environment, and field data collection on environmental characteristics and biodiversity data from plantations. Completed social data collection from 50 smallholders, and environmental data collection from 48 smallholders in Perak, Malaysia. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Collaborative agreement with Sinar Mas Ago Resources and Technology Research Institute (SMART Research Institute), Indonesia |
| Organisation | SMART Research Institute |
| Country | Indonesia |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Leading on funding bid and designing methodology for project - Translation award grant (BB/T012366/1) - due to the impacts of COVID, this project only started in February 2021. Applying for and gaining full University ethics approval for the project. Advising field team on survey methods and ongoing remote support for fieldwork. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Providing staff time and guidance in identifying smallholder plantations that already received management advice from SMARTRI in Riau, Indonesia. Significant logistical, transport and accommodation support in the field. Advice and input into development of methods and approaches throughout the project. Full involvement in discussions related to data interpretation and write-up of findings. The exact amount this in-kind support sums to is difficult to determine, but is considerable. |
| Impact | 1. The long-term collaboration with SMART Research Institute has resulted in numerous academic and industry publications and presentations, and changes in plantation management within SMART Research Institute plantations. However, I report here only those related to the current project. Finished data collection from 46 smallholders in Riau, Indonesia. Data collection included both ecological and social data from collaborating smallholders. Data archived (see relevant section): https://doi.org/10.5285/b61a12a2-d091-41af-b451-a14de4f4a3c3 2. Benefits - information fed back to all individual smallholders involved, in the appropriate language for feedback. We used some of this information to interpret results in research publications, ensuring smallholders also had a voice in publications, as well as all collaborative organisations. This bespoke information will allow smallholders to be better informed about their own management and alternative options. 3. This partnership has continued beyond this project including collaborating on a successful ODA GCRF and Newton Consolidation Accounts Research Fund Award (G118358), and for Lucile and David Packard Foundation funding for more work with smallholder farmers. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | 02/03/2023 Talk at workshop with Wild Asia: UKCEH/ Cardiff & DGFC /Wild Asia at KOPEL, Batu Puteh, Kinabatangan, Sabah Malaysia "Monitoring of OP management system effects" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | 02/03/2023 Talk at workshop with Wild Asia (Malaysian NGO): UKCEH/ University of Cardiff & DGFC (Danau Girang Wildlife Centre) /Wild Asia at KOPEL, Batu Puteh, Kinabatangan, Sabah Malaysia "Monitoring of OP management system effects" About 7 Malaysian farmers present, plus 5 Malaysian staff (Wild Asia) and 2 Malaysian staff from DGFC Outcomes: Farmers reported considering bio farming for their oil palm plantations |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | 1:1 feedback and discussion of project results with 15 participating smallholder farmers in Banting, Peninsular Malaysia, with University Putra Malaysia Researcher. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | 1. Brief description of the activity: Individual 1:1 meetings with 15 smallholder farmers in May 2023, in Banting Malaysia, to discuss research findings from the project (as well as related understory management projects) and solicit their feedback. Discussion session led by a researcher from Universiti Putra Malaysia. Key topics covered were: -The importance of biodiversity in the oil palm . -Management options to help deliver positive impacts for biodiversity and IPM. -Results from projects. Farmers were highly engaged, reporting that they were excited by the findings and learning about the role of invertebrates in oil palm; that they were concerned about termite and Ganoderma infestations on their farms; that their major goal of spraying herbicides on their farms was to avoid dangerous wildlife such as snakes as well as keeping their neighbours happy; that they were worried that current herbicides weren't effective and that they could harm oil palm roots. They also suggested that we include local agricultural officers in our research so that the findings might be shared with all of Banting's smallholder farmers. 2. Relevant participant countries: Malaysia 3. The names of organisations and sectors engaged in the activity: Universiti Putra Malaysia, smallholder farmers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | EGU22-13120 Diversifying understory vegetation and riparian restoration as ecological management options to regulate greenhouse gas fluxes in oil palm plantations by Julia Drewer et al. Session BG3.19 - Land use, land-use change, ecohydrology and greenhouse gas emissions in the tropics |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | short oral presentation at the hybrid EGU General Assembly 2022: |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Gatsby Plant Science Summer School presentation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | An online talk about ongoing oil palm research in our group and oil palm sustainability as part of the Gatsby Plant Science Summer School. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Guest talk to Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, biology undergraduates on tropical research |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Guest lecture for 23 undergraduate students from Anglia Ruskin University on carrying out tropical research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Invited talk at University of Copenhagen, discussing research to make oil palm plantations more sustainable. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | 1. Brief description of the activity: Presentation for 15 staff and postgraduate students at the University of Copenhagen. Discussion of ways that oil palm ca be managed more sustainable. Sparked questions and discussion afterwards. 2. Relevant participant countries: Denmark 3. The names of organisations and sectors engaged in the activity: University of Copenhagen, 15 staff and postgraduate students, academic. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Oil palm: good crop/bad crop. Talk to Cambridge Local Group of the Wildlife Trust |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Online talk to Cambridge Local Group of the Wildlife Trust - a local wildlife interest group. Received good levels of engagement and multiple questions after the event. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.wildlifebcn.org/events/2021-02-22-online-talk-good-crop-bad-crop-can-oil-palm-become-mor... |
| Description | Oil palm: good crop/bad crop. Talk to volunteers at the Museum of Zoology, Cambridge. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Online talk to engage volunteers at the Museum of Zoology, Cambridge. Aim to give more information to volunteers working in the Museum, with Q&A afterwards. Positive feedback from volunteer coordinator and good number of questions from volunteers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Overview of understory management work in Liberia and related projects to Golden Veroleum Liberia (and oil palm company) executives and CEO |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | 1. Brief description of the activity: Overview of understory management work in Liberia and related projects to Golden Veroleum Liberia (GVL) (an oil palm company - https://goldenveroleumliberia.com/) executives and CEO, by postdoctoral researcher. Talk helps to consolidate ongoing collaboration with the company. 2. Relevant participant countries: Liberia. 3. The names of organisations and sectors engaged in the activity: GVL, 5 board members and CEO, Industry |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Poster at Wild Asia stand in Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil Annual Conference, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | 1. Brief description of the activity, outcomes and impacts. - Poster at Wild Asia stand in Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil Annual Conference, hosted by Wild Asia. - As well as collaborators from Wild Asia, a member of the IPB team also attended the event, allowing exchange of ideas between Wild Asia and IPB field staff. - The poster gave an overview of our work, and had associated fliers with a summary of the project that could be taken by conference delegates. 2. Participant countries involved Malaysia and Indonesia 3. The names of organisations and sectors engaged in the activity Wild Asia, IPB University, RSPO o Activity / workshop location - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia o Number of participants - several hundred attendees at the conference o Types of stakeholders engaged - industry |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://rt.rspo.org/ |
| Description | Poster presentation at South Asia Nitrogen Hub annual meeting at the National University of the Maldives |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | November 27th to December 1st, the South Asian Nitrogen Hub (SANH) held its first full face to face meeting hosted by The Maldives National University including engagement with partners from across all 8 South Asian countries and the UK. The meeting included a poster competition. Each poster was evaluated on scientific content, message and design by the judges. Toby Roberts won the joint runner up prize for his poster titled "N2O Fluxes from Oil Palm Plantation Soils" by T. Roberts, J. Drewer, Wakhid, M. Ikhsan, E. Turner, D. Buchori, P. Hidayat. This resulted in engagement and discussions between different ODA projects. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Presentation at International online seminar series - Faculty of Sciences, Autonomous University of the State of Mexico, Toluca, Mexico. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | 1. Brief description of the activity: Online presentation as part of organised seminar series, attended by 25 postgraduate students and staff. Title "Managing tropical ecosystems for insect biodiversity". Questions and discussion afterwards. 2. Relevant participant countries: Mexico 3. The names of organisations and sectors engaged in the activity: Autonomous University of the State of Mexico, Toluca, Mexico, 25 postgraduate students and staff, academic. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Presentation at University of Hull "Managing ecosystems for insect diversity". |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | 1. Brief description of the activity: Presentation at University of Hull as part of organised seminar series "Managing ecosystems for insect diversity". Approximately 30 people attended, with multiple questions and discussion after. 2. Relevant participant countries: UK only 3. The names of organisations and sectors engaged in the activity: University of Hull, 30 staff, academic. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | School visit (King's Ely) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Approximately 30 students (ages 13-18) attended a talk about oil palm sustainability, which included sharing information about our past and ongoing research projects. The students asked a range of questions immediately after the talk, which prompted interesting discussion about how best to balance the needs of crop production and environmental protection, and challenged many of the ideas that they had previously held about oil palm. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Talk for Anglia Ruskin University undergraduate module - Tropical Ecology & Management, including details of wider project |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | 1. Brief description of the activity: Invited presentation to 15 undergraduate students at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge about tropical research "Ecological Research in SE Asia". Extensive questions and discussion afterwards. Talk and ongoing work resulted in Lecturer at ARU and myself applying for a joint research studentship (not successful). 2. Relevant participant countries: UK only 3. The names of organisations and sectors engaged in the activity: Anglia Ruskin University, 15 undergraduate students, academic. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Talk for Anglia Ruskin University undergraduate module - Tropical Ecology & Management, including details of wider project |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | 1. Brief description of the activity, outcomes and impacts. - Talk for ARU undergraduate module - Tropical Ecology & Management. - The talk focussed on the role of research and large-scale experiments in understanding tropical land-use change. - No known impacts, but several questions from attendees afterwards. 2. Participant countries involved NA 3. The names of organisations and sectors engaged in the activity University of Cambridge o Activity / workshop location - Cambridge, UK o Number of participants - 15 o Types of stakeholders engaged - undergraduate |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Talk for International Conference on Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation, Indonesia - talk online |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | 1. Brief description of the activity, outcomes and impacts. - Talk for International Conference on Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation (Indonesia - talk online). - Questions asked from audience, showing engagement. 2. Participant countries involved Indonesia 3. The names of organisations and sectors engaged in the activity University of Cambridge, IPB University, SMART Research Institute o Activity / workshop location - Bogor, Indonesia o Number of participants - 50 o Types of stakeholders engaged - academic and industry |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://icnrec.pusakakalam.com/ |
| Description | Talk for group of international students for Bettersky Travel - Winter Programme: Sustainability and Agroecology series, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | 1. Brief description of the activity: Talk to a group of 25 international students for Bettersky Travel - Winter Programme: Sustainability and Agroecology series, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. Presentation discussed ways to manage tropical crops more sustainably. Multiple questions and discussion after. 2. Relevant participant countries: International 3. The names of organisations and sectors engaged in the activity: Bettersky Travel, 25 international students, academic. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Talk titled "Trace gas fluxes from Oil Palm plantations & forests in Southeast Asia" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Talk at meeting with Sabah Wildlife Department with participants from WWF Malaysia, Cardiff University, Danau Girang field centre (Sabah), UKCEH, Sabah Wildlife Department (different district officers) Title of talk "Trace gas fluxes from Oil Palm plantations & forests in Southeast Asia" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Talk to Universiti Putra Malaysia - Forestry Series |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Online talk about ongoing oil palm research to Universiti Putra Malaysia undergraduate group (plus some postgraduate students and staff as part of their Forestry Series. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Undergraduate Student and Graduate Student Seminar in IPB Bogor |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | 1. Brief description of the activity, outcomes and impacts. - Lab meeting led by IPB Research Assistant - Discussed plant protection with students at the IPB University biological control laboratory. - BEFTA work discussed including collaborative studies with the University of Cambridge and SMART Research Institute. 2. Participant countries involved Indonesia 3. The names of organisations and sectors engaged in the activity IPB University o Activity / workshop location - IPB University o Number of participants - 17 o Types of stakeholders engaged - undergraduate and postgraduate students |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022,2023 |
| Description | Workshop for smallholder farmers, coordinated by IPB University and SMART Research Institute, Riau, Indonesia |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | 1. Brief description of the activity, outcomes and impacts. - Workshop held for smallholders participating in Project (BBT012366/1), organised by IPB University and SMART Research Institute, Riau, Indonesia. - Talks from University of Cambridge, IPB, Wild Asia, CEH. - Overview results from project disseminated in a series of talks, including on-line and in person, and results discussed. -Overview of BEFTA project also presented - Smallholders highly engaged in project and reported being keen to participate in further research. # - Participants received certificate for engagement in project. 2. Participant countries involved Indonesia, Malaysia 3. The names of organisations and sectors engaged in the activity SMART Research Institute, IPB University, Wild Asia, UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, University of Cambridge o Activity / workshop location - Kandis, Riau, Indonesia o Number of participants - 34 o Types of stakeholders engaged - smallholder farmers |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Workshop for smallholder farmers, coordinated by Wild Asia, Selangor, Malaysia |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | 1. Brief description of the activity, outcomes and impacts. - Workshop held for smallholders participating in Project (BBT012366/1), organised by Wild Asia. - Talks from University of Cambridge, IPB, Wild Asia, UPM, CEH. - Overview results from project disseminated in a series of talks, including on-line and in person, and results discussed. - Field visit to exemplar plots. - Smallholders highly engaged in project and reported being keen to participate in further research. - Participants received certificate for engagement in project. 2. Participant countries involved Malaysia, Indonesia 3. The names of organisations and sectors engaged in the activity Wild Asia, Universiti Putra Malaysia, IPB University, UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, University of Cambridge o Activity / workshop location - Selangor Malaysia o Number of participants - 20 o Types of stakeholders engaged - smallholder farmers |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | alk to students at Danau Girang field centre in Kinabatangan, Malaysia. "GHG fluxes from oil palm plantations, logged and riparian forests in Southeast Asia (Sabah/Borneo and Riau/Sumatra)" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | 25/02/2023 Talk to students at Danau Girang field centre in Kinabatangan, Malaysia. "GHG fluxes from oil palm plantations, logged and riparian forests in Southeast Asia (Sabah/Borneo and Riau/Sumatra)". |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |