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Title

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

Publication

Wallingford, Oxon, UK ; New York, NY, USA : CABI Pub. in association with Center for International Forestry Research, c2001.

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Additional Authors

• Angelsen, Arild.
• Kaimowitz, David.
• Center for International Forestry Research

Description

xiv, 422 p. : ill., map; 24 cm.

Summary

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 protect or endanger tropical forests. The studies address the view of many in the development, environmental and agricultural research communities that better agricultural technologies can save forests by producing more food on the existing land area vs. the premise from basic economic theory that anything which makes agriculture more profitable should stimulate land expansion and deforestation.

Subject

• Landtechnik
• Deforestation > Tropics > Congresses
• Deforestation > Control > Tropics > Congresses
• Agriculture > Technology transfer > Tropics > Congresses

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings
• Congresses (form)
• Actes de congrès.

Note

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

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: the Role of Agricultural Technologies in Tropical Deforestation / Arild Angelsen, David Kaimowitz -- Technological Change and Deforestation: a Theoretical Overview / Arild Angelsen, Daan van Soest, David Kaimowitz, 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, Carlos Lascano -- Intensified Small-scale Livestock Systems in the Western Brazilian Amazon / Stephen A. Vosti, Chantal Line Carpentier, Julie Witcover, Judson F. Valentim -- Technological Progress versus Economic Policy as Tools to Control Deforestation: the Atlantic Zone of Costa Rica / Peter Roebeling, Ruerd Ruben -- Land Use, Agricultural Technology and Deforestation among Settlers in the Ecuadorean Amazon / Francisco Pichon, Catherine Marquette, Laura Murphy, 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, Joyotee Smith -- Kudzu-improved Fallows in the Peruvian Amazon / David Yanggen, Thomas Reardon -- Africa.

ISBN

0851994512 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^00057960^

OCLC

44517865

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library