354 Agricultural Revolutions and Change
Table 15.2
Meta–land-use systems and candidate best-bet alternative systems (with some worst bets) at each ASB benchmark site
Meta–land-use system Brazil
Cameroon
Indonesia
Peru
Thailand
Forests
Natural forestsLogged forestsExtractive reservesCommunity-managed forests
Natural forestsLogged forestsCommunity-managed forests
Natural forestsLogged forestsCommunity-managed forests
Natural forestsLogged forestsExtractive reserves
Natural forestsLogged forestsCommunity-managed forests
Complex agroforests
None
Cocoa agroforests (jungle cocoa)
Rubber agroforests (jungle rubber)
Bora system
Tea agroforests (jungle tea)
Simple agroforests and intensive tree crops
Multistrata agroforests (cupuaçú + pupunha + castanha)Coffee + rubberCoffee + fast-growing timber
Oil palm plantations
Oil palm plantations Rubber monoculture plantationsPulpwood plantations
Peach palm Bolaina Capirona
Fruit orchards
Food crop–fallow systems
Coffee monoculture Annual food crop, 3-yr fallow Annual food crop, 2-yr legume fallow
Melon and mixed food crop, 15-yr fallow Mixed food crop, 4-yr bush fallowMixed food crop, 4-yr Chromolaena
fallow
Upland rice, 10-yr bush fallow Mixed food crops, 5-yr bush fallowCassava, 2-yr Imperata
fallow
Upland rice, cassava, short fallows
Upland rice, barley, ginger, short fallows
Continuous food crops None
None
Cassava
Cabbages
Pastures and grasslands
Degraded pastures Improved pastures
None
Imperata
grasslands
Degraded pastures Improved pastures
Imperata
grasslands