Economics and Ecology of Diversification The Case of Tropical Tree Crops /

The monoculture systems that have been encouraged by governments since the 1960s have led to major socio-economic and environmental crises. Now the diversification of tree crop systems is advancing throughout the tropics. Why and when does diversification take place? What categories of farmers diver...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Ruf, François (Editor ), Schroth, Götz (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
Edición:1st ed. 2015.
Temas:
Agriculture.
Sustainability.
Agriculture-Economic aspects.
Landscape ecology.
Development economics.
Human geography.
Agricultural Economics.
Landscape Ecology.
Development Economics.
Human Geography.
Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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