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

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Ruf, François (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Schroth, Götz (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Θέματα: Life sciences.; Agriculture.; Landscape ecology.; Sustainable development.; Development economics.; Agricultural economics.; Human geography.; Life Sciences.; Sustainable Development.; Agricultural Economics.; Landscape Ecology.; Development Economics.; Human Geography.

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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.