Agricultural Technologies and Tropical Deforestation

By D. Southgate. 2003

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Does intensification slow crop land expansion or encourage deforestation (2014, background): “…intensification that may look like win-lose outcomes for agricultural production and the environment when viewed from a local perspective (e.g. Angelsen and Kaimowitz, 2001b) may actually be win-win or net win when analyzed at landscape scale (e.g. Phalan et al. 2011) or globally (e.g.…”
Biodiversity conservation and agricultural sustainability: towards a new paradigm of ‘ecoagriculture’ landscapes (2008, background): “Millions of hectares of forests and natural vegetation have been cleared for agricultural use and for harvesting timber and wood fuels, and empirical evidence suggests that intensification rarely results in saving ‘land for nature’(Angelsen & Kaimowitz 2001).”
Enhancing the sustainability of commodity supply chains in tropical forest and agricultural landscapes (2013, background): “Addressing this challenge requires considered governance of agricultural expansion and intensification, particularly with respect to the spatial configuration of agricultural and forest areas (Angelsen and Kaimowitz, 2001), improved access to and distribution of food, and reduced food waste.”
To close the yield-gap while saving biodiversity will require multiple locally relevant strategies (2013, background): “production (Angelsen and Kaimowitz, 2001; Ewers et al., 2009), and is only likely to do so where regulation supports this outcome (Matson and Vitousek, 2006).”
Forests in poverty reduction strategies : capturing the potential (2003, background): “Adapted from Angelsen and Kaimowitz (2001). Dimensions of the agricultural technology-deforestation link Impact on poverty”
Livestock, livelihoods and the environment: understanding the trade-offs (2009, background): “Positive impacts occur when livestock production is more efficient, where fewer natural resources are used for each kilogram of milk, meat, or eggs produced [48]; moderate grazing increases species diversity; and pastoral land use protects wildlife biodiversity in savannah landscapes [49].”
Dynamics of Land-Use and Land-Cover Change in Tropical Regions (2003, background): “The differing impact of agricultural development on forest conversion depends on how the new technologies affect the labor market and migration, whether the crops are sold locally or globally, how profitable farming is at the forest frontier, as well as on the capital and labor intensity of the new ”
Contagious development: Neighbor interactions in deforestation (2012, background): “Deforestation in the Caribbean and South Pacific followed the expansion of banana production in the sixties and early seventies and cattle ranching in the seventies and early eighties (Roebeling and Ruben, 2001).”
Trends in Global Agricultural Land Use: Implications for Environmental Health and Food Security. (2018, background): “One major criticism of land sparing is that agricultural intensification does not actually result in land sparing in practice, because intensification generally results in more farmers adopting the practice, resulting in increased (and not decreased) clearing for cropland (7).”