PALM OIL EXTRACTIVISM IN COLOMBIA AND WETLANDS ACCESS. A STUDY CASE.

ANGÉLICA HERNÁNDEZ GOEZ; Karla Emmanuela Ribeiro Hora; Juan Camilo Delgado Gaona

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DOI

10.29327/9786527226680.1449620

Título do Trabalho

PALM OIL EXTRACTIVISM IN COLOMBIA AND WETLANDS ACCESS. A STUDY CASE.

Autores

ANGÉLICA HERNÁNDEZ GOEZ
Karla Emmanuela Ribeiro Hora
Juan Camilo Delgado Gaona

Modalidade

IRSA - Congresso Mundial de Sociologia Rural (01/10/2025 a 20/01/2026)

Área temática

IRSA 25 - Hydrosocial Territories and Water (In)Justice in Rural Worlds

Data de Publicação

06/08/2026

País da Publicação

Brasil

Idioma da Publicação

pt-BR

Página do Trabalho

https://www.even3.com.br/anais/sober-irsa2026/1449620-palm-oil-extractivism-in-colombia-and-wetlands-access-a-study-case

ISBN

978-65-272-2668-0

Palavras-Chave

extractivism, palm oil, livelihoods, wetlands, Puerto Wilches (Colombia)

Resumo

Colombia is the fourth country, and the first in Latin America, in palm oil production (Elaeis guineensis) (USDA, 2023). In this country, the municipality of Puerto Wilches had the largest area of oil palm plantations in 2022, with 46,907 ha (AGRONET, 2025), and five palm oil processing plants. In 2018, Puerto Wilches had 31,698 inhabitants, distributed among 51.2% women and 48.8% men. Of these inhabitants 49,3% lived in rural areas and 50.7% in urbans. The percentage of rural people living in poverty was 37.4%, higher than the national rural poverty rate of 30.2% (DANE, 2018). In addition, the GINI coefficient for land ownership distribution was 0,74, in 2020 (SIPRA, 2025). On the other hand, the river-floodplains cover between 60 and 70% of the surface area of Puerto Wilches, being the wetlands their main ecosystems, in those wetlands there are populations of Manatee (Trichechus manatus manatus), whose populations are classified as vulnerable in the international conservation category. In order to link the expansion of palm oil extractivism with the access to water as a resource and living entity, in this study we ask for how small-scale fisheries and peasants deal with this expansion in the municipality of Puerto Wilches. We will use qualitative and quantitative tools such as documentary and bibliographic secondary sources, statistic and geoprocessing data, and will use primary sources obtained from semi-structured interviews to fishermen and peasants. As preliminary conclusions, it is suggested that palm oil extractivism in that municipality has changed the livelihoods of fisheries and peasants by reducing the access to wetlands, and reducing the connectivity of those wetlands and the ecological process of flood pulse, basic for the productivity and interactions of biota in those river-floodplains.

Título do Evento: 16th World Congress of Rural Sociology and 64th Congress of the Brazilian Society of Rural Economics, Management and Sociology
Cidade do Evento: Porto Alegre
Título dos Anais do Evento: Anais do 64º Congresso da SOBER e XVI Congresso Mundial de Sociologia Rural (IRSA)
Nome da Editora: Even3
Meio de Divulgação: Meio Digital
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GOEZ, ANGÉLICA HERNÁNDEZ; HORA, Karla Emmanuela Ribeiro; GAONA, Juan Camilo Delgado. PALM OIL EXTRACTIVISM IN COLOMBIA AND WETLANDS ACCESS. A STUDY CASE... In: Anais do 64º Congresso da SOBER e XVI Congresso Mundial de Sociologia Rural (IRSA). Anais...Porto Alegre(RS) UFRGS, 2026. Disponível em: https//www.even3.com.br/anais/sober-irsa2026/1449620-PALM-OIL-EXTRACTIVISM-IN-COLOMBIA-AND-WETLANDS-ACCESS-A-STUDY-CASE. Acesso em: 25/09/2026