Table 1.
Implications of doubling Indonesia's annual oil-palm production (increase by 80 million tons) for land use, biodiversity, carbon, and food production under each development scenario
| Land uses converted (103 ha) | ||||||||
| Scenario | Oil-palm expansion (103 ha) | Primary forest | Secondary forest | Agricultural land | Degraded land | Biodiversity loss (%) | Net carbon loss (106 tons) | Loss in annual food production capacity (106 tons) |
| Business-as-usual | 3,097.09 ± 18.54 | 735.94 ± 92.5 | 684.38 ± 54.37 | 1,223.46 ± 66.47 | 453.31 ± 29.41 | 0.43 ± 0.04 | 278.16 ± 16.5 | 5.13 ± 0.26 |
| Food production | 3,181.89 ± 14.86 | 1,310.82 ± 48.08 | 767.29 ± 40.34 | 786.95 ± 22.61 | 316.83 ± 19.8 | 0.7 ± 0.02 | 366.22 ± 11.39 | 0 ± 0 |
| Forest preservation | 5,435.34 ± 70.59 | 0 ± 0 | 0 ± 0 | 0 ± 0 | 5,435.34 ± 70.59 | 0 ± 0 | 478.95 ± 40.44 | 9.97 ± 0.12 |
| Carbon conservation | 5,451.86 ± 0 | 178.71 ± 0 | 634.52 ± 0 | 2,527.33 ± 0 | 2111.3 ± 0 | 0.18 ± 0 | −158.76 ± 0 | 9.78 ± 0 |
| Hybrid approach | 3,430.86 ± 3.65 | 0 ± 0 | 0 ± 0 | 1,601.74 ± 0 | 1,829.12 ± 3.65 | 0 ± 0 | 191.64 ± 5.38 | 1.88 ± 0 |
Net carbon loss was calculated as the difference between carbon loss (total biomass and peat soil carbon stocks) and carbon gain (above-ground carbon biomass in oil palm plantations). Values are mean ± SD of each outcome variable for 10,000 simulation runs.