Agricultural technologies and tropical deforestation
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Agricultural technologies and tropical deforestation
CABI Publishing, c2001
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Note
Based on papers presented at a workshop held in Turrialba, Costa Rica, Mar. 11-13, 1999
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book has been developed from a workshop on Technological change in agriculture and tropical deforestation organised by the Center for International Forestry Research and held in Costa Rica in March, 1999. It explores how intensification of agriculture affects tropical deforestation using case studies from different geographical regions, using different agricultural products and technologies and in differing demographic situations and market conditions. Guidance is also given on future agricultural research and extension efforts.
Table of Contents
1: Preface 2: Introduction and overviews 3: Introduction: the role of agricultural technologies in tropical deforestation 4: Technological change and deforestation: a theoretical overview 5: Developed countries 6: The transition from deforestation to reforestation in Europe 7: Did a Green Revolution restore the forests of the American South? 8: Latin America 9: A general equilibrium analysis of technology, migration, and deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon 10: Will intensifying pasture management in Latin America protect forests - or is it the other way around? 11: Intensified small-scale livestock systems in the western Brazilian Amazon 12: Technological change vs. economic policy as tools to control deforestation: the Atlantic zone of Costa Rica 13: Land use, agricultural technology, and deforestation among settlers in the Ecuadorian Amazon 14: Ecuador goes bananas: incremental technological change and forest loss 15: Soybean technology and the loss of natural vegetation in Brazil and Bolivia 16: Kudzu improved fallows in the Peruvian Amazon 17: Africa 18: Ambiguous effects of policy reforms on sustainable agricultural intensification in Africa 19: A century of technological change and deforestation in the miombo woodlands of northern Zambia 20: Livestock disease control and the changing landscapes of southwest Ethiopia 21: Tree-crops as deforestation and reforestation agents: The case of cocoa in Cote d'Ivoire and Sulawesi 22: Asia 23: Agriculture and deforestation in tropical Asia: an analytical framework 24: Deforestation, irrigation, employment, and cautious optimism in southern Palawan, the Philippines 24: Agricultural development policies and land expansion in a southern Philippine watershed 26: The impact of rubber on the forest landscape in Borneo 27: Summaries 28: Agricultural technology and forests: a recap 29: Policy implications 30: Index
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