Tradeoffs or synergies? : agricultural intensification, economic development, and the environment /

• Corporate Author: International Conference on Agricultural Intensification, Economic Development and the Environment
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2001.
• Subjects: Agricultural intensification > Developing countries.; Agricultural ecology > Developing countries.; Rural development > Developing countries.; Agricultural Economics.; Natural Resource Economics, (New March 2000); Policy and Planning.; Supply, Demand and Prices.; Income and Poverty.; Pollution and Degradation.; Agricultural development.; Economic development.; Environmental protection.; Food production.; Intensification.; Sustainability.; Electronic books.
• Online Access: View fulltext via EzAccess
• Item Description: Based on papers presented at an international conference held in Salt Lake City, Utah, late July-early Aug. 1998.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xix, 538 pages) : illustrations, charts; Also available in print format.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 465-519) and index.
• Access: Access limited to subscribing institution.

The central objective of the volume is to review and consider a range of evidence on the 'tradeoffs versus synergies' theme as it pertains to the multiple objectives of agricultural intensification in low-income countries. The evidence is wide ranging and includes theoretical and conceptual analysis, numerous empirical examples and case studies from Asia, Africa and Latin America and analyses of selected technology, policy and institutional issues. The book contains 24 chapters and an index.