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.
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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 conceptua...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction : Changing Perspectives on Agricultural Intensification, Economic Development and the Environment / David R. Lee, Paul J. Ferraro and Christopher B. Barrett
• The Doubly Green Revolution : Balancing Food, Poverty and Environmental Needs in the 21st Century / Gordon Conway
• Population, Agricultural Land Use and the Environment in Developing Countries / Richard E. Bilsborrow and David L. Carr
• The Economics of Biodiversity Loss and Agricultural Development in Low-income Countries / Charles Perrings
• Farm Household Intensification Decisions and the Environment / Stefano Pagiola and Stein Holden
• When Does Technological Change in Agriculture Promote Deforestation? / Arild Angelsen and David Kaimowitz
• Bioeconomic Models and Ecoregional Development : Policy Instruments for Sustainable Intensification / Ruerd Ruben, Arie Kuyvenhoven and Gideon Kruseman
• Tradeoffs in Agriculture, the Environment and Human Health : Decision Support for Policy and Technology Managers / Charles C. Crissman, John M. Antle and Jetse J. Stoorvogel
• Balancing Regional Development Priorities to Achieve Sustainable and Equitable Agricultural Growth / Peter Hazell and Shenggen Fan
• Pathways of Development in the Hillside Areas of Honduras : Causes and Implications for Agricultural Production, Poverty and Sustainable Resource Use / John Pender, Sara J. Scherr and Guadalupe Durón
• Implications of Resource-use Intensification for the Environment and Sustainable Technology Systems in the Central African Rainforest / James Gockowski, G. Blaise Nkamleu and John Wendt
• Agricultural Intensification, Deforestation and the Environment : Assessing Tradeoffs in Sumatra, Indonesia / Thomas P. Tomich, Meine van Noordwijk, Suseno Budidarsono, Andy Gillison, Trikurniati Kusumanto, Daniel Murdiyarso, Fred Stolle and Achmad M. Fagi
• Intensifying Small-scale Agriculture in the Western Brazilian Amazon : Issues, Implications and Implementation / Stephen A. Vosti, Julie Witcover, Chantal Line Carpentier, Samuel José Magalhães de Oliveira and Jair Carvalho dos Santos (with collaborators)
• Integrated Bioeconomic Land-use Models : an Analysis of Policy Issues in the Atlantic Zone of Costa Rica / Robert A. Schipper, Hans G.P. Jansen, Bas A.M. Bouman, Huib Hengsdijk, André Nieuwenhuyse and Fernando Sáenz
• Land Tenure and the Management of Land and Trees : a Comparative Study of Asia and Africa / Keijiro Otsuka and Frank Place
• Sustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management in India's Semi-arid Tropics / John Kerr, Ganesh Pangare, Vasudha Lokur Pangare and P.J. George
• Soil Fertility, Small-farm Intensification and the Environment in Africa / Pedro A. Sanchez, Bashir Jama, Amadou I. Niang and Cheryl A. Palm
• Livestock-Environment Interactions under Intensifying Production / Steven J. Staal, Simeon Ehui and Jon Tanner
• Sustainable versus Unsustainable Agricultural Intensification in Africa : Focus on Policy Reforms and Market Conditions / Thomas Reardon, Christopher B. Barrett, Valerie Kelly and Kimseyinga Savadogo
• Intensive Food Systems in Asia : Can the Degradation Problems be Reversed? / Prabhu L. Pingali and Mark W. Rosegrant
• Biodiversity and Agricultural Development : the Crucial Institutional Issues / Jeffrey A. McNeely
• Moving Beyond Integrated Conservation and Development Projects (ICDPs) to Achieve Biodiversity Conservation / Katrina Brandon
• Balancing Development and Environmental Goals through Community-based Natural Resource Management / Norman Uphoff
• Assessing Tradeoffs and Synergies among Agricultural Intensification, Economic Development and Environmental Goals : Conclusions and Implications for Policy / David R. Lee, Christopher B. Barrett, Peter Hazell and Douglas Southgate.