Title Agricultural technologies and tropical deforestation / edited by A. Angelsen and D. Kaimowitz

Published Wallingford, Oxon, UK ; New York, NY, USA : CABI Pub. in association with Center for International Forestry Research, 2001

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 422 pages) : illustrations, map Contents Introduction and Overviews -- Introduction: the Role of Agricultural Technologies in Tropical Deforestation / Arild Angelsen and David Kaimowitz -- Technological Change and Deforestation: a Theoretical Overview / Arild Angelsen, Daan van Soest, David Kaimowitz and Erwin Bulte -- Developed Countries -- The Transition from Deforestation to Reforestation in Europe / Alexander Mather -- Did a Green Revolution Restore the Forests of the American South? / Thomas K. Rudel -- Latin America -- A General Equilibrium Analysis of Technology, Migration and Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon / Andrea Cattaneo -- Will Intensifying Pasture Management in Latin America Protect Forests, or Is it The Other Way Round? / Douglas White, Federico Holmann, Sam Fujisaka, Keneth Reategui and Carlos Lascano -- Intensified Small-scale Livestock Systems in the Western Brazilian Amazon / Stephen A. Vosti, Chantal Line Carpentier, Julie Witcover and Judson F. Valentim -- Technological Progress versus Economic Policy as Tools to Control Deforestation: the Atlantic Zone of Costa Rica / Peter Roebeling and Ruerd Ruben -- Land Use, Agricultural Technology and Deforestation among Settlers in the Ecuadorean Amazon / Francisco Pichon, Catherine Marquette, Laura Murphy and Richard Bilsborrow -- Ecuador Goes Bananas: Incremental Technological Change and Forest Loss / Sven Wunder -- Soybean Technology and the Loss of Natural Vegetation in Brazil and Bolivia / David Kaimowitz and Joyotee Smith -- Kudzu-improved Fallows in the Peruvian Amazon / David Yanggen and Thomas Reardon -- Africa -- Ambiguous Effects of Policy Reforms on Sustainable Agricultural Intensification in Africa / Thomas Reardon and Christopher B. Barrett -- A Century of Technological Change and Deforestation in the Miombo Woodlands of Northern Zambia / Stein Holden -- Livestock Disease Control and the Changing Landscapes of South-west Ethiopia / Robin S. Reid, Philip K. Thornton and Russell L. Kruska -- Tree Crops as Deforestation and Reforestation Agents: the Case of Cocoa in Cote d'Ivoire and Sulawesi / Francois Ruf -- Asia -- Agriculture and Deforestation in Tropical Asia: an Analytical Framework / Sisira Jayasuriya -- Deforestation, Irrigation, Employment and Cautious Optimism in Southern Palawan, the Philippines / Gerald Shively and Elmer Martinez -- Agricultural Development Policies and Land Expansion in a Southern Philippine Watershed / Ian Coxhead, Gerald Shively and Xiaobing Shuai -- The Impact of Rubber on the Forest Landscape in Borneo / Wil de Jong -- Summaries -- Agricultural Technology and Forests: a Recapitulation / Arild Angelsen and David Kaimowitz -- Policy Recommendations / David Kaimowitz and Arild Angelsen Summary This book includes a theoretical framework, 8 case studies from Latin America, 4 from sub-Saharan Africa and 4 from South East Asia, in addition to two studies on the historical experience of developed countries in Europe and the USA which discuss whether improvements in agricultural technology protect or endanger tropical forests. The studies address the view of many in the development, environmental and agricultural research communities that better agricultural technologies can save forests by producing more food on the existing land area vs. the premise from basic economic theory that anything which makes agriculture more profitable should stimulate land expansion and deforestation Analysis tropische bossen tropical forests ontbossing deforestation landbouw agriculture bedrijfssystemen farming systems landgebruik land use tropen tropics beleid policy Forest Policy Tropical Agriculture Bosbeleid Tropische landbouw Notes Based on papers presented at a workshop held in Turrialba, Costa Rica, Mar. 11-13, 1999 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Deforestation -- Tropics -- Congresses Deforestation -- Control -- Tropics -- Congresses Agriculture -- Technology transfer -- Tropics -- Congresses Conservation of natural resources. Conservation of Natural Resources BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Real Estate -- General. Agricultural development. Agricultural economics. Agriculture. Case studies. Conservation. Deforestation. Forests. Technology. Tropical forests. Deforestation -- Tropics. Deforestation -- Control -- Tropics. Agriculture -- Technology transfer -- Tropics. Agriculture -- Technology transfer Deforestation Deforestation -- Control Tropics Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings Form Electronic book Author Angelsen, Arild Kaimowitz, David Center for International Forestry Research. LC no. 00057960 ISBN 0851998992 9780851998992

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