Overview
- Integrates socio-economic and environmental analysis of recent changes in tropical tree crop production
- Includes case studies from tree crop agriculture from Africa, Latin America, Asia and the Pacific
- Highly relevant to current discussions of sustainable development and social-environmental impacts of commodity production
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
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 diversify? What obstacles do they have to overcome, and how do public and private policies interfere in this process? How do land use systems and landscapes evolve as a result of this diversification? According to the authors of this volume, diversification is certainly a response to market risks, but also to the depletion of environmental resources. Ecological changes such as declining soil fertility and increasing pressure from pests, diseases and weeds intensify at the end of monoculture cycles, driving crop change and diversification of farming systems. Through 15 case studies from Africa, Latin America, Asia and the Pacific, the authors provide us with in-depth insights into the economy and ecology of family agriculture and its recent developments.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Economics and Ecology of Diversification
Book Subtitle: The Case of Tropical Tree Crops
Editors: François Ruf, Götz Schroth
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-7294-5
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Éditions Quæ 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-017-7293-8Published: 30 July 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-0444-9Published: 23 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-7294-5Published: 23 September 2015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 340
Number of Illustrations: 92 b/w illustrations, 9 illustrations in colour
Additional Information: Jointly published with Éditions Quæ, Versailles, France
Topics: Agriculture, Sustainable Development, Agricultural Economics, Landscape Ecology, Development Economics, Human Geography