Sustainable Agriculture and Food: Four volume set (Earthscan Reference Collections)

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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
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