Description
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.
Chapter
2 The Doubly Green Revolution: Balancing Food, Poverty and Environmental Needs in the 21st Century1
3 Population, Agricultural Land Use and the Environment in Developing Countries
4 The Economics of Biodiversity Loss and Agricultural Development in Low-income Countries
5 Farm Household Intensification Decisions and the Environment
6 When Does Technological Change in Agriculture Promote Deforestation?
7 Bioeconomic Models and Ecoregional Development: Policy Instruments for Sustainable Intensification
8 Tradeoffs in Agriculture, the Environment and Human Health: Decision Support for Policy and Technology Managers
9 Balancing Regional Development Priorities to Achieve Sustainable and Equitable Agricultural Growth
10 Pathways of Development in the Hillside Areas of Honduras: Causes and Implications for Agricultural Production, Poverty and Sustainable Resource Use
11 Implications of Resource-use Intensification for the Environment and Sustainable Technology Systems in the Central African Rainforest
12 Agricultural Intensification, Deforestation and the Environment: Assessing Tradeoffs in Sumatra, Indonesia
13 Intensifying Small-scale Agriculture in the Western Brazilian Amazon: Issues, Implications and Implementation
14 Integrated Bioeconomic Land-use Models: an Analysis of Policy Issues in the Atlantic Zone of Costa Rica
15 Land Tenure and the Management of Land and Trees: a Comparative Study of Asia and Africa
16 Sustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management in India’s Semi-arid Tropics
17 Soil Fertility, Small-farm Intensification and the Environment in Africa
18 Livestock–Environment Interactions under Intensifying Production
19 Sustainable versus Unsustainable Agricultural Intensification in Africa: Focus on Policy Reforms and Market Conditions
20 Intensive Food Systems in Asia: Can the Degradation Problems be Reversed?
21 Biodiversity and Agricultural Development: the Crucial Institutional Issues
22 Moving Beyond Integrated Conservation and Development Projects (ICDPs) to Achieve Biodiversity Conservation
23 Balancing Development and Environmental Goals through Community-based Natural Resource Management
24 Assessing Tradeoffs and Synergies among Agricultural Intensification, Economic Development and Environmental Goals: Conclusions and Implications for Policy