Research Catalog

Title

Sustainability, growth, and poverty alleviation : a policy and agroecological perspective / edited by Stephen A. Vosti and Thomas Reardon.

Publication

Baltimore, MD : Published for the International Food Policy Research Institute [by] Johns Hopkins University Press, [1997], ©1997.

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Additional Authors

• Vosti, Stephen A.
• Reardon, Thomas Anthony.
• International Food Policy Research Institute.

Description

xxii, 407 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

• This book focuses in particular on the interactions between agricultural growth and environment and between environment and poverty. The chapters analyze and illustrate these interactions with case study evidence from the developing world in general and from specific agroclimatic zones in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. The contributors also discuss the implications of these links for development policies, agricultural technologies, and social and economic institutions.
• With a clearer picture of how these goals interact, policymakers and researchers can design strategies for working more effectively to meet them.

Subjects

• Agriculture > Developing countries
• Agriculture > Environmental aspects > Developing countries
• Agriculture > Economic aspects > Developing countries
• Agriculture and state > Developing countries
• Poverty > Developing countries

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 347-388) and index.

Contents

• Foreword / Per Pinstrup-Andersen -- 1. Introduction: The Critical Triangle of Links among Sustainability, Growth, and Poverty Alleviation / Stephen A. Vosti and Thomas Reardon -- 2. Sustainable Growth in Agricultural Production: Poetry, Policy, and Science / Vernon W. Ruttan -- 3. Environmental Consequences of Agricultural Growth in Developing Countries / Hartwig De Haen -- 4. Poverty-Environment Links in Rural Areas of Developing Countries / Thomas Reardon and Stephen A. Vosti -- 5. The Links between Agricultural Growth, Environmental Degradation, and Nutrition and Health: Implications for Policy and Research / Joachim von Braun -- 6. Accelerated Resource Degradation by Agriculture in Developing Countries? The Role of Population Change and Responses to It / Michael Lipton -- 7. Global Climate Change: Implications for the Links between Sustainability, Growth, and Poverty Alleviation / Thomas E. Downing and Martin L. Parry --
• 8. The Relationship between Trade and Environment, with Special Reference to Agriculture / Ammar Siamwalla -- 9. Macroeconomic and Sectoral Policies, Natural Resources, and Sustainable Agricultural Growth / Edward B. Barbier -- 10. Policy Analysis of Conservation Investments: Extensions of Traditional Technology Adoption Research / Thomas Reardon and Stephen A. Vosti -- 11. "Exogenous" Interest Rates, Technology, and Farm Prices versus "Endogenous" Conservation Incentives and Policies / Michael Lipton -- 12. Research Systems for Sustainable Agricultural Development / Peter Oram -- 13. Agricultural Growth, Sustainability, and Poverty Alleviation in the Brazilian Amazon / Aercio S. Cunha and Donald R. Sawyer -- 14. Agricultural Growth and Sustainability: Conditions for Their Compatibility in the Humid and Subhumid Tropics of Africa / Dunstan S. C. Spencer and Rudolph A. Polson --
• 15. Agriculture-Environment-Poverty Interactions in the Southeast Asian Humid Tropics / Prabhu L. Pingali -- 16. Agricultural Growth and Sustainability: Prospects for Semi-Arid West Africa / Peter J. Matlon and Akinwumi A. Adesina -- 17. Prospects for Pastoralism in Semi-Arid Africa / Patrick Webb and D. Layne Coppock -- 18. Agricultural Sustainability, Growth, and Poverty Alleviation in the Indian Semi-Arid Tropics / Meri L. Whitaker, John M. Kerr and P. V. Shenoi -- 19. Agricultural Growth and Sustainability: Conditions for Their Compatibility in the Rainfed Production Systems of West Asia and North Africa / Richard N. Tutwiler and Elizabeth Bailey -- 20. Agricultural Growth and Sustainability: Perspectives and Experiences from the Himalayas / Narpat S. Jodha -- 21. Institutional and Technological Perspectives on the Links between Agricultural Sustainability and Poverty: Illustrations from India / Kanchan Chopra and C. H. Hanumantha Rao --
• 22. Agricultural Growth and Sustainability: Conditions for Their Compatibility in the East African Highlands / Amare Getahun -- 23. A New Approach to Poverty Alleviation and Sustainability in the Dry Tropical Hillsides of Central America: A Guatemalan Case Study / Rafael Celis, Mario A. Vedova and Sergio Ruano -- 24. Conclusions / Stephen A. Vosti and Thomas Reardon.

ISBN

0801856078 (alk. paper)

LCCN

97001816

OCLC

• 36438759
• ocm36438759

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries