Agroforestry and Biodiversity Conservation in Tropical Landscapes
agroforestry as a means to reduce deforestation. We start off by reviewing the agroforestry-deforestation debate. Based on a stu ...
lished in four leading agroforestry journals (1991–1996) was much lower: only 10 percent. Second, the focus has been almost excl ...
potential of agroforestry to reduce atmospheric CO 2 , including reducing the level of forest loss. They note that “direct evide ...
therefore also qualify as technological progress. Based on this definition, intro- ducing agroforestry practices in most cases w ...
Table 5.1. Three typical cases of agroforestry adoption. Case Land Availability Driving Factor Typical Examples Possible Impact ...
scenario, because most of the forest has disappeared, the effect of agroforestry adoption on deforestation is indirect through o ...
agricultural land. Particularly when the new technology is labor or capital intensive, as often is the case, such constraints at ...
affect the price of the farmers’ produce. Changes in the demand for labor are likely to affect local wages and migration flows. ...
mobilize (hired) labor on a large scale. For the very poor, the quick cash argu- ment may make them rely more on short-term wage ...
The labor and capital needs (factor intensities) are key features of new agroforestry practices. We assume here that these are f ...
lower costs) of a technique can more than offset this effect by providing an incentive to cultivate a larger total area. And bec ...
A final aspect of agroforestry technology that is relevant for the deforesta- tion impact is the extent to which a new practice ...
Output Markets The idea that technological progress increases supplies, which lowers output prices and sometimes even reduces fa ...
nities outside the frontier will attract labor away from forest-clearing activities in the uplands, as illustrated by a Philippi ...
property rights should lead to investments in the resource base by better man- agement of existing land (Otsuka and Place 2001). ...
Conclusions Agroforestry researchers have not paid much attention to the impact of agro- forestry on deforestation. To the exten ...
(elastic demand), but they are also the ones with the greatest potential for increased deforestation. So is agroforestry likely ...
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efficiency: the case of smallholder rubber production in customary land areas of Suma- tra. Agroforestry Systems52:145–160. Tomi ...
Chapter 6 Chocolate Forests and Monocultures: A Historical Review of Cocoa Growing and Its Conflicting Role in Tropical Deforest ...
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