Tradeoffs or Synergies? : Agricultural

The need to increase food production, enhance economic growth and reduce poverty in an environmentally sustainable context is an issue of growing importance. This book addresses the linkages and tradeoffs involved in solving such key challenges.

Contributors

ix

Preface

xv

Foreword

xix

Introduction: Changing Perspectives on Agricultural Intensification, Economic Development and the Environment

1

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David R. Lee

Paul J. Ferraro

Christopher B. Barrett

Part I: Balancing Food Production, Economic and Environmental Goals: Concepts and Methods

The Doubly Green Revolution: Balancing Food, Poverty and Environmental Needs in the 21st Century

17

(18)

Gordon Conway

Population, Agricultural Land Use and the Environment in Developing Countries

35

(22)

Richard E. Bilsborrow

David L. Carr

The Economics of Biodiversity Loss and Agricultural Development in Low-income Countries

57

(16)

Charles Perrings

Farm Household Intensification Decisions and the Environment

73

(16)

Stefano Pagiola

Stein Holden

When Does Technological Change in Agriculture Promote Deforestation?

89

(26)

Arild Angelsen

David Kaimowitz

Bioeconomic Models and Ecoregional Development: Policy Instruments for Sustainable Intensification

115

(20)

Ruerd Ruben

Arie Kuyvenhoven

Gideon Kruseman

Tradeoffs in Agriculture, the Environment and Human Health: Decision Support for Policy and Technology Managers

135

(16)

Charles C. Crissman

John M. Antle

Jetse J. Stoorvogel

Part II: Empirical Studies of Tradeoffs and Synergies in Agricultural Intensification, Economic Development and the Environment

Balancing Regional Development Priorities to Achieve Sustainable and Equitable Agricultural Growth

151

(20)

Peter Hazell

Shenggen Fan

Pathways of Development in the Hillside Areas of Honduras: Causes and Implications for Agricultural Production, Poverty and Sustainable Resource Use

171

(26)

John Pender

Sara J. Scherr

Guadalupe Duron

Implications of Resource-use Intensification for the Environment and Sustainable Technology Systems in the Central African Rainforest

197

(24)

James Gockowski

G. Blaise Nkamleu

John Wendt

Agricultural Intensification, Deforestation and the Environment: Assessing Tradeoffs in Sumatra, Indonesia

221

(24)

Thomas P. Tomich

Meine van Noordwijk

Suseno Budidarsono

Andy Gillison

Trikurniati Kusumanto

Daniel Murdiyarso

Fred Stolle

Achmad M. Fagi

Intensifying Small-scale Agriculture in the Western Brazilian Amazon: Issues, Implications and Implementation

245

(22)

Stephen A. Vosti

Julie Witcover

Chantal Line Carpentier

Samuel Jose Magalhaes de Oliveira

Jair Carvalho dos Santos

Integrated Bioeconomic Land-use Models: an Analysis of Policy Issues in the Atlantic Zone of Costa Rica

267

(18)

Robert A. Schipper

Hans G. P. Jansen

Bas A. M. Bouman

Huib Hengsdijk

Andre Nieuwenhuyse

Fernando Saenz

Land Tenure and the Management of Land and Trees: a Comparative Study of Asia and Africa

285

(18)

Keijiro Otsuka

Frank Place

Sustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management in India's Semi-arid Tropics

303

(22)

John Kerr

Ganesh Pangare

Vasudha Lokur Pangare

P. J. George

Part III: Evaluating Tradeoffs and Synergies: Technology, Institutions and Policies

Soil Fertility, Small-farm Intensification and the Environment in Africa

325

(20)

Pedro A. Sanchez

Bashir Jama

Amadou I. Niang

Cheryl A. Palm

Livestock-Environment Interactions under Intensifying Production

345

(20)

Steven J. Staal

Simeon Ehui

Jon Tanner

Sustainable versus Unsustainable Agricultural Intensification in Africa: Focus on Policy Reforms and Market Conditions

365

(18)

Thomas Reardon

Christopher B. Barrett

Valerie Kelly

Kimseyinga Savadogo

Intensive Food Systems in Asia: Can the Degradation Problems be Reversed?

383

(16)

Prabhu L. Pingali

Mark W. Rosegrant

Biodiversity and Agricultural Development: the Crucial Institutional Issues

399

(18)

Jeffrey A. McNeely

Moving Beyond Integrated Conservation and Development Projects (ICDPs) to Achieve Biodiversity Conservation

417

(16)

Katrina Brandon

Balancing Development and Environmental Goals through Community-based Natural Resource Management

433

(18)

Norman Uphoff

Assessing Tradeoffs and Synergies among Agricultural Intensification, Economic Development and Environmental Goals: Conclusions and Implications for Policy

451

(14)

David R. Lee

Christopher B. Barrett

Peter Hazell

Douglas Southgate

References

465

(56)

Index

521

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