Tradeoffs Or Synergies?: Agricultural Intensification, Economic Development, and the Environment

David R. Lee, Christopher B. Barrett

CABI, Nov 22, 2000 - Technology & Engineering - 560 pages

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.

Contents

• Changing Perspectives on Agricultural: 1
• Balancing Food Poverty: 17
• Population Agricultural Land Use and the Environment: 35
• The Economics of Biodiversity Loss and Agricultural: 57
• Farm Household Intensification Decisions and the Environment: 73
• When Does Technological Change in Agriculture Promote: 89
• Policy: 115
• Balancing Regional Development Priorities to Achieve Sustainable: 151
• Implications of Resourceuse Intensification for the Environment: 197
• Intensifying Smallscale Agriculture in the Western Brazilian: 245
• an Analysis of Policy: 267
• Sustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management: 303
• Soil Fertility Smallfarm Intensification and the Environment: 325
• LivestockEnvironment Interactions under Intensifying: 345
• Sustainable versus Unsustainable Agricultural Intensification: 365
• Can the Degradation Problems: 383
• the Crucial: 399
• Moving Beyond Integrated Conservation and Development: 417
• Balancing Development and Environmental Goals through: 433
• Assessing Tradeoffs and Synergies among Agricultural: 451
• References: 465
• Index: 521

Bibliographic information

• Title: Tradeoffs Or Synergies?: Agricultural Intensification, Economic Development, and the Environment
• Editors: David R. Lee, Christopher B. Barrett
• Publisher: CABI, 2000
• ISBN: 0851997112, 9780851997117
• Length: 560 pages
• Subjects: Technology & Engineering / Agriculture / Forestry