Response: Commentary: Oil Palm Boom and Farm Household Diets in the Tropics

Kibrom T Sibhatu

doi:10.3389/fsufs.2020.00107

Abstract

Response: Commentary: Oil Palm Boom and Farm Household Diets in the Tropics

Highlights

Specialty section: This article was submitted to Land, Livelihoods and Food Security, a section of the journal Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
Nurhasan et al (2020) selectively highlight some statements and disregard other crucial ones, misrepresent some of what I do, and misunderstand the approaches I use to evaluate technology adoption that is commonly used in the agricultural economics literature and the dietary measurements typically used in the context of developing countries
Nurhasan and colleagues quote a statement from my paper, “The results illustrate that land-use change through oil palm adoption significantly improves the diets of farm households in the tropics,” and claim, “the central conclusion [of my paper] is misleading and overgeneralized.”

Summary

Introduction

Specialty section: This article was submitted to Land, Livelihoods and Food Security, a section of the journal Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems. I thank Nurhasan et al (2020) for their interest and comments on my recent paper, “Oil Palm Boom and Farm Household Diets in the Tropics (Sibhatu, 2019).” Nurhasan et al (2020) selectively highlight some statements and disregard other crucial ones, misrepresent some of what I do, and misunderstand the approaches I use to evaluate technology adoption that is commonly used in the agricultural economics literature and the dietary measurements typically used in the context of developing countries.

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