Agricultural technologies and tropical deforestation /

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, in association with Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), 2001.
• Subjects: Deforestation > Congresses. > Tropics; Deforestation > Congresses. > Control > Tropics; Agriculture > Congresses. > Technology transfer > Tropics; Agricultural Economics.; Natural Resource Economics, (New March 2000); Forests and Forest Trees (Biology and Ecology); Pollution and Degradation.; Agricultural development.; Agricultural economics.; Agriculture.; Case studies.; Conservation.; Deforestation.; Forests.; Technology.; Tropical forests.; Electronic books.
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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 prot...

Table of 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 Co͠te d'Ivoire and Sulawesi / François 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.