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Author : David Kaimowitz
Publisher : IICA Biblioteca Venezuela
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Arild Angelsen,David Kaimowitz
Publisher : CABI
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2001-04-20
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0851998992
This book has been developed from a workshop on Technological change in agriculture and tropical deforestation organised by the Center for International Forestry Research and held in Costa Rica in March, 1999. It explores how intensification of agriculture affects tropical deforestation using case studies from different geographical regions, using different agricultural products and technologies and in differing demographic situations and market conditions. Guidance is also given on future agricultural research and extension efforts.
Author : David A. Nibert
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-07
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780231525510
Jared Diamond and other leading scholars have argued that the domestication of animals for food, labor, and tools of war has advanced the development of human society. But by comparing practices of animal exploitation for food and resources in different societies over time, David A. Nibert reaches a strikingly different conclusion. He finds in the domestication of animals, which he renames "domesecration," a perversion of human ethics, the development of large-scale acts of violence, disastrous patterns of destruction, and growth-curbing epidemics of infectious disease. Nibert centers his study on nomadic pastoralism and the development of commercial ranching, a practice that has been largely controlled by elite groups and expanded with the rise of capitalism. Beginning with the pastoral societies of the Eurasian steppe and continuing through to the exportation of Western, meat-centered eating habits throughout today's world, Nibert connects the domesecration of animals to violence, invasion, extermination, displacement, enslavement, repression, pandemic chronic disease, and hunger. In his view, conquest and subjugation were the results of the need to appropriate land and water to maintain large groups of animals, and the gross amassing of military power has its roots in the economic benefits of the exploitation, exchange, and sale of animals. Deadly zoonotic diseases, Nibert shows, have accompanied violent developments throughout history, laying waste to whole cities, societies, and civilizations. His most powerful insight situates the domesecration of animals as a precondition for the oppression of human populations, particularly indigenous peoples, an injustice impossible to rectify while the material interests of the elite are inextricably linked to the exploitation of animals. Nibert links domesecration to some of the most critical issues facing the world today, including the depletion of fresh water, topsoil, and oil reserves; global warming; and world hunger, and he reviews the U.S. government's military response to the inevitable crises of an overheated, hungry, resource-depleted world. Most animal-advocacy campaigns reinforce current oppressive practices, Nibert argues. Instead, he suggests reforms that challenge the legitimacy of both domesecration and capitalism.
Author : Jan P. de Groot,R. Ruben
Publisher : Springer
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1997-07-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780230378087
Agricultural development in Central America is based on extensive growth, supported by macroeconomic policies that marginalize small peasants. Deforestation, erosion and resource depletion are particularly severe. This book offers a comprehensive review of the perspectives for state policies and local action to enhance sustainable agriculture. Macroeconomic conditions and institutional arrangements for the establishment of sustainable production systems in different eco-regional settings (hillsides, humid tropics, frontier areas) are discussed, as well as policy instruments to improve property rights, management rules and financial mechanisms to enhance sustainable resource use.
Author : John Soluri,Claudia Leal,José Augusto Pádua
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781785333910
Though still a relatively young field, the study of Latin American environmental history is blossoming, as the contributions to this definitive volume demonstrate. Bringing together thirteen leading experts on the region, A Living Past synthesizes a wide range of scholarship to offer new perspectives on environmental change in Latin America and the Spanish Caribbean since the nineteenth century. Each chapter provides insightful, up-to-date syntheses of current scholarship on critical countries and ecosystems (including Brazil, Mexico, the Caribbean, the tropical Andes, and tropical forests) and such cross-cutting themes as agriculture, conservation, mining, ranching, science, and urbanization. Together, these studies provide valuable historical contexts for making sense of contemporary environmental challenges facing the region.
Author : Simeon Ehui,John K. Lynam,I. Okike
Publisher : ILRI (aka ILCA and ILRAD)
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9291461571
Author : United Nations Environment Programme
Publisher : UNEP/Earthprint
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Caribbean Area
ISBN : 9280722948
Author : Allen Blackman,Rebecca Epanchin-Niell,Juha Siikamäki,Daniel Velez-Lopez
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-23
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781317906865
Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region is exceptionally biodiverse. It contains about half of the world’s remaining tropical forests, nearly one-fifth of its coastal habitats, and some of its most productive agricultural and marine areas. But agriculture, fishing and other human activities linked to rapid population and economic growth increasingly threaten that biodiversity. Moreover, poverty, weak regulatory capacity, and limited political will hamper conservation. Given this dilemma, it is critically important to design conservation strategies on the basis of the best available information about both biodiversity and the track records of the various policies that have been used to protect it. This rigorously researched book has three key aims. It describes the status of biodiversity in LAC, the main threats to this biodiversity, and the drivers of these threats. It identifies the main policies being used to conserve biodiversity and assesses their effectiveness and potential for further implementation. It proposes five specific lines of practical action for conserving LAC biodiversity, based on: green agriculture; strengthening terrestrial protected areas and co-management; improving environmental governance; strengthening coastal and marine resource management; and improving biodiversity data and policy evaluation.
Author : Daniel Buckles,Bernard Triomphe,Gustavo Sain,International Development Research Centre (Canada),International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Agricultural innovations
ISBN : 9780889368415
Cover Crops in Hillside Agriculture: Farmer innovation with Mucuna
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Bib. Orton IICA / CATIE
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Robert W. Wilcox
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781477311141
Brazil has the second-largest cattle herd in the world and is a major exporter of beef. While ranching in the Amazon—and its destructive environmental consequences—receives attention from both the media and scholars, the states of Mato Grosso and Mato Grosso do Sul actually host the most cattle. A significant beef producer in Brazil beginning in the late nineteenth century, the region served as a laboratory for raising cattle in the tropics, where temperate zone ranching practices do not work. Mato Grosso ranchers and cowboys transformed ranching’s relationship with the environment, including the introduction of an exotic cattle breed—the Zebu—that now dominates Latin American tropical ranching. Cattle in the Backlands presents a comprehensive history of ranching in Mato Grosso. Using extensive primary sources, Robert W. Wilcox explores three key aspects: the economic transformation of a remote frontier region through modern technical inputs; the resulting social changes, especially in labor structures and land tenure; and environmental factors, including the long-term impact of ranching on ecosystems, which, he contends, was not as detrimental as might be assumed. Wilcox demonstrates that ranching practices in Mato Grosso set the parameters for tropical beef production in Brazil and throughout Latin America. As the region was incorporated into national and international economic structures, its ranching industry experienced the entry of foreign investment, the introduction of capitalized processing facilities, and nascent discussions of ecological impacts—developments that later affected many sectors of the Brazilian economy.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Bib. Orton IICA / CATIE
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Ernst Lutz
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0821342495
Agriculture in developing countries has been remarkably productive during the last few decades; however, the production levels were achieved at the cost of placing more stress on natural resources and the environment. This volume brings together state-of-the-art applied, practical research related to agriculture, development, and the environment in the developing world. It attempts to distill current knowledge and to summarize it in readable form for development practitioners. Where possible, authors use specific examples to indicate which approaches have worked and which have not, under which conditions, and why.
Author : Bruce L. Gardner,Gordon C. Rausser
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 044451080X
Annotation The subject matter of agricultural economics has both broadened and deepened in recent years, and the chapters of this Handbook present the most exciting and innovative work being done today. Following Volume 1, Volume 2 consists of three parts: 'Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment', 'Agriculture in the Macroeconomy' and 'Agriculture and Food Policy'. Although agricultural economists have always paid attention to these topics, research devoted to them has increased substantially in scope as well as depth in recent years.
Author : Sven Wunder
Publisher : Springer
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2000-07-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780230596696
Tropical forests are disappearing at an unaltered pace, giving way to alternative land uses. This book gives an economic perspective on deforestation. Following a survey of different deforestation definitions, theories and empirical evidence, a case-study of Ecuador provides a versatile historical picture of factors affecting forest loss throughout different periods, regions and ecosystems. It is shown that policy and market failures alone cannot explain rapid deforestation; decision-makers follow a composite economic rationale in their continuous clearing of forests which can only be counteracted by concerted action.