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Economics and ecology of diversification : the case of tropical tree crops
- Title
- Economics and ecology of diversification : the case of tropical tree crops / editors: François Ruf, Götz Schroth.
- Publication
- Dordrecht ; Heidelburg ; New York ; London : Springer, 2015.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Book/Text | Use in library | SB171.T73 E36 2015 | Off-site |
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- Description
- ix, 340 pages : illustrations (some color), plates, charts, maps; 24 cm
- Subject
- Crop diversification > Economic aspects > Tropics
- Crop diversification > Environmental aspects > Tropics
- Tree crops > Economic aspects > Tropics
- Tree crops > Environmental aspects > Tropics
- Agriculture > Economic aspects > Tropics
- Agriculture > Economic aspects
- Tree crops > Economic aspects
- Landschaftsökologie
- Baumpflanzung
- Agrarökonomie
- Tropics
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Introduction -- Economic and ecological aspects of diversification of tropical tree crops -- Chapter 1. Diversification of cocoa farms in Côte d'Ivoire: complementarity of and competition from rubber rent -- Chapter 2. Coconut farmers and lethal yellowing disease: a case study in two villages in Ghana?s Central region -- Chapter 3. From the coffee-cocoa combination to oil palm cycles: the case of Dabou and Aboisso in Côte d'Ivoire -- Chapter 4. Development of oil palm plantations and orange groves in the heart of the cocoa territory in eastern Ghana -- Chapter 5. Rubber in the kingdom of cocoa. The south-west of Côte d'Ivoire in the 1990s -- Chapter 6. Rubber: natural rent, capitalization rent? West-central Côte d'Ivoire and southern Thailand -- Chapter 7. From Firestone to Michelin, a history of rubber cultivation in a cocoa-growing country: Ghana -- Chapter 8. Extensive fish farming, a complementary diversification of plantation economies -- Chapter 9. Determinants in the choice of perennial crops in diversified production systems of rubber growers in south-western Cameroon -- Chapter 10. Socio-economic conditions of horticultural diversification in cocoa production systems in southern Cameroon -- Chapter 11. Agroforestry-based diversification for planting cocoa in the savannah of central Cameroon -- Chapter 12. Diversifying Central American coffee agroforestry systems via revenue of shade trees -- Chapter 13. Coconut- and cocoa-based agroforestry systems in Vanuatu: a diversification strategy in tune with the farmers' life cycle -- Chapter 14. The place of cocoa and coconut cultivation in family plantations in peninsular Malaysia -- Chapter 15. Diversification and perennial-crop cycles in Aceh, Indonesia.
- ISBN
- 9401772932
- 9789401772938
- 9789401772945 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2015943802
- OCLC
- ocn911364289
- 911364289
- SCSB-1885613
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library