Part 1 Diseases and pests
1.Fungal diseases affecting oil palm: Tan Joon Sheong, Lee Yang
Ping and Sharifah Shahrul Rabiah Syed Alwee, Felda Global Ventures
Research and Development, Malaysia; Létizia Camus-Kulandaivelu,
Maxime Mercière, Alba Zaremski and Frédéric Breton CIRAD, France;
and Christophe Klopp, INRA, France;
2.Diseases affecting oil palm: Elizabeth Alvarez, CIAT,
Colombia;
3.Insect pests affecting oil palms: Laurence Beaudoin-Ollivier,
Université de Montpellier and CIRAD, France;
4.Integrated pest management in sustainable palm oil production:
Edgar Clive Turner and Julie Hinsch, University of Cambridge,
UK;
5.The integrated management of bud rot disease and Phytophthora
palmivora in oil palm: Gerardo Martinez, José Ignacio Sanz, Gabriel
Torres, Greicy Sarria, Diana Velez, Franky Zuñiga, Yuri Mestizo and
Francia Varon, Colombian Oil Palm Research Center – Cenipalma,
Colombia;
6.Advances in disease-resistant oil palm varieties: Tristan
Durand-Gasselin, Benoît Cochard and Hubert de Franqueville,
PalmElit-CIRAD, France;
Part 2 Nutritional and sensory quality
7.Bioactive compounds in oil palm: Ravigadevi Sambanthamurthi, Ng
Mei Han and Choo Yuen May, Malaysian Palm Oil Board, Malaysia;
8.Palm oil and health: Jean-Michel Lecerf, Institut Pasteur de
Lille, France;
9.The nutritional value of red palm oil: Hélène Delisle, University
of Montreal, Canada;
Part 3 Sustainability and supporting smallholders
10.Life cycle assessments of oil palm products: Cécile Bessou,
CIRAD, France; Heinz Stichnothe, Thünen Institute of Agricultural
Technology, Germany; Amir F. N. Abdul-Manan, Saudi Aramco, Saudi
Arabia; and Shabbir Gheewala, King Mongkut’s University of
Technology Thonburi, Thailand;
11.Life cycle assessment (LCA) of palm oil in practice: the example
of Malaysia: Vijaya Subramaniam, Zulkifli Hashim and Halimah
Muhamad, Malaysian Palm Oil Board, Malaysia;
12.Modelling the environmental impacts of agriculture, focusing on
oil palm: Paul N. Nelson, James Cook University, Australia; Neil
Huth, CSIRO, Australia; Marcus Sheaves, James Cook University,
Australia; Cécile Bessou, CIRAD, France; Lénaïc Pardon, CIRAD,
France; Han She Lim, James Cook University, Australia; and Rai S.
Kookana, CSIRO, Australia;
13.Certifying sustainability in oil palm cultivation: Marcel Djama,
CIRAD and MOISA, University of Montpellier, France and Universiti
Putra Malaysia, Malaysia;
14.Balancing oil palm cultivation with forest and biodiversity
conservation: Carl Traeholt, South East Asia Programme Director,
Copenhagen Zoo, Malaysia;
15.Waste management and recycling in oil palm cultivation: Salman
Zafar, BioEnergy Consult, India;
16.Understanding smallholders in oil palm cultivation: a case study
from Sumatra: Pierre-Marie Bosc and Cédric Gaillard, CIRAD,
France;
17.Closing yield gaps for small- and medium-scale oil palm
producers: improving cultivation practices : J. I. Sanz, M.
Mosquera and J. A. Beltrán, Colombian Oil Palm Research Center –
Cenipalma, Colombia;
18.Artisanal mills and local production of palm oil by
smallholders: Sylvain Rafflegeau, CIRAD, UPR Systèmes de Pérennes,
France; Doris Nanda, Université de Yaoundé I, Cameroon; and Claude
Genot, INRA-UR BIA, France;
"This collection aims to be as comprehensive as possible in coverage, therefore should be essential reading not only for planters and researchers, but also for those involved with international agencies, governmental institutions, academia and non-profit organisations." M. R. Chandran, Advisor and former Vice-President, Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO)
Professor Alain Rival is Regional Director for South East Asia and Focal Point for Oil Palm Research at CIRAD, the internationally-renowned French Center for International Cooperation in Agricultural Research for Development. Dr Rival is also Professor of Biology and Physiology, He coordinates several international collaborative research projects and has published widely on plant biotechnology.
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