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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Angelsen, Arild.

Kaimowitz, David.

Center for International Forestry Research.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Deforestation--Tropics--Congresses.

Deforestation.

Deforestation--Control--Tropics--Congresses.

Agriculture--Technology transfer--Tropics--Congresses.

Agriculture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 422 pages) : illustrations, map

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : CABI Pub., 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This text has been developed from a workshop on ""Technological Change in Agriculture and Tropical Deforestation"" organized by the Center for International Forestry Research and held in Costa Rica in March, 1999. It explores how intensification of agriculture affects tropical deforestation.

Contents:

Agricultural Technologies and Tropical Deforestation; Contents; Contributors; Preface; 1 Introduction: the Role of Agricultural Technologies in Tropical Deforestation; 2 Technological Change and Deforestation: a Theoretical Overview; 3 The Transition from Deforestation to Reforestation in Europe; 4 Did a Green Revolution Restore the Forests of the American South?; 5 A general Equilibrium Analysis of Technology, Migration and Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon; 6 Will Intensifying Pasture Management in Latin America Protect Forests - or Is It the Other Way Round?

7 Intensified Small-scale Livestock Systems in the Western Brazilian Amazon 8 Technological Progress versus Economic Policy as Tools to Control Deforestation: the Atlantic Zone of Costa Rica; 9 Land Use, Agricultural Technology and Deforestation among Settlers in the Ecuadorean Amazon; 10 Ecuador Goes Bananas: Incremental Technological Change and Forest Loss; 11 Soybean Technology and the Loss of Natural Vegetation in Brazil and Bolivia; 12 Kudzu-improved Fallows in the Peruvian Amazon; 13 Ambiguous Effects of Policy Reforms on Sustainable Agricultural Intensification in Africa

14 A century of Technological Change and Deforestation in the Miombo Woodlands of Northern Zambia 15 Livestock Disease Control and the Changing Landscapes of South-west Ethiopia; 16 Tree Crops as Deforesstation and Reforestation Agents: the Case of Cocoa in Côte d'Ivoire and Sulawesi; 17 Agricultural and Deforestation in Tropical Asia: and Analytical Framework; 18 Deforestation, Irrigation, Employment and Cautious Optimism in Southern Palawan, the Philippines; 19 Agricultural Development Policies and Land Expansion in a Southern Philippine Watershed

20 The Impact of Rubber on the Forest Landscape in Borneo 21 Agricultural Technology and Forests: a Recapitulation; 22 Policy Recommendations; Index

Notes:

Based on papers presented at a workshop held in Turrialba, Costa Rica, Mar. 11-13, 1999.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-281-90479-1

9786611904791

0-85199-899-2

OCLC:

476204492