You can check this PhD student from Zurich. https://www.ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2015/03/of-pastures-and-oil-palm.htmlhttps://www.ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2015/03/of-pastures-and-oil-palm.html

Kate Bishop (recent graduate from Indiana University) spent time in Brazil looking at the cultural diffusion of oil palm cultivation from Africa. Her focus was on development geography. She would be able to tell you about some of the people working on that. 

http://search.proquest.com.proxyiub.uits.iu.edu/pqdtglobal/docview/1728736635/6BACDB1BD68A4ED5PQ/2?accountid=11620

Guatemalan economist Luis Solano has been studying the socio-ecological impact of mega-monocrop plantation expansion for years (especially sugarcane and oil palm). You can easily find most of it online. Saludos!

http://www.albedrio.org/htm/otrosdocs/comunicados/EnfoqueNo.36-PalmaafricanaFTN-2015.pdf

Thanks Daniel, I know his work. In fact, we included his work in a course we had at CIMSUR on political ecology in Mesoamerica. Thanks anyway for the reply!

I didn't realize that your own work was based in Chiapas and Guatemala!  I imagine you're probably also familiar with the work of the Idear-Congcoop (I particularly recommend the work of Alberto Alonso Fradejas).  Saludos hasta la gran UNAM!

http://idear.congcoop.org.gt/

http://omal.info/IMG/pdf/cana_palma_acumulacion_y_dominio.pdf

Yes, I know their work also, gracias en cualquier caso!!

Antonio, go to google scholar and put in key words, such as "oil palm Latin America" and something should come up!

Dear Tamar, I am actually not asking about publications but about scholars who have worked or who are working in oil palm and have not necessarily published their work (this is especially common considering the average delay from submission to publication in many journals). Besides, not all publications appear in google scholar. Actually, many non-English publications do not appear in this research engine, which is quite a problem. 

Dear Pablo,

thank you for the theses, these are of great use. 

you can see this

http://tropicalconservationscience.mongabay.com/content/v8/tcs_v8i3_828-845_Pardo.pdf

http://www.intechopen.com/books/environmental-impact-of-biofuels/the-impact-of-oil-palm-expansion-on-environmental-change-putting-conservation-research-in-context

About this issue,  you can try to ask to Salvatore Eugenio Pappalardo, University of Padova:

https://unipd.academia.edu/SalvatoreEugenioPappalardo

 Thanks Francesco.

Saluti,

Antonio

Hola Antonio

En mi caso estoy estudiando en mi tesis de doctorado el avance del monocultivo de la Palma en una región de Colombia y su impacto en las condiciones de trabajo.  A la fecha he presentado en un evento un artículo que analiza el avance de este cultivo junto a la caña de azúcar y la soya en el área de estudio, la cual es considerada la "última frontera agrícola de Colombia".

Saludo cordial

Estimado Robinzon, me comunico contigo mediante un mensaje pues me interesa saber más de tu trabajo. 

Saludos,

Antonio

Hola Antonio!

Participo en el proyecto PIRE con la Michigan Tech

http://www.mtu.edu/forest/research/partnerships/pire/

Pertenezco al grupo socieconómico y político, en el que estamos estudiando los efectos sociales y económicos de la expansión de los cultivos para biocombustible (eucalipto en USA y Argentina, y palma en México y Brasil). Estamos apenas analizando los datos de encuestas que se realizaron en Tabasco el año pasado. 

Saludos!

Azahara

Hola Azahara,

tendría mucho interés en saber más. Yo levanté hace dos años encuestas a productores en Selva Lacandona y Soconusco. Sería buenísimo poder platicar. Si te parece te escribo un mensaje. 

Saludos!

Antonio