Livestock and Deforestation in Central America in the 1980s and 1990s
Author: David Kaimowitz
Publisher: IICA Biblioteca Venezuela
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 136
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Publisher: IICA Biblioteca Venezuela
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 136
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Arild Angelsen
Publisher: CABI
Published: 2001-04-20
Total Pages: 440
ISBN-13: 9780851998992
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book has been developed from a workshop on Technological change in agriculture and tropical deforestation organised by the Center for International Forestry Research and held in Costa Rica in March, 1999. It explores how intensification of agriculture affects tropical deforestation using case studies from different geographical regions, using different agricultural products and technologies and in differing demographic situations and market conditions. Guidance is also given on future agricultural research and extension efforts.
Author: David A. Nibert
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2013-05-07
Total Pages: 349
ISBN-13: 0231525516
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Jared Diamond and other leading scholars have argued that the domestication of animals for food, labor, and tools of war has advanced the development of human society. But by comparing practices of animal exploitation for food and resources in different societies over time, David A. Nibert reaches a strikingly different conclusion. He finds in the domestication of animals, which he renames "domesecration," a perversion of human ethics, the development of large-scale acts of violence, disastrous patterns of destruction, and growth-curbing epidemics of infectious disease. Nibert centers his study on nomadic pastoralism and the development of commercial ranching, a practice that has been largely controlled by elite groups and expanded with the rise of capitalism. Beginning with the pastoral societies of the Eurasian steppe and continuing through to the exportation of Western, meat-centered eating habits throughout today's world, Nibert connects the domesecration of animals to violence, invasion, extermination, displacement, enslavement, repression, pandemic chronic disease, and hunger. In his view, conquest and subjugation were the results of the need to appropriate land and water to maintain large groups of animals, and the gross amassing of military power has its roots in the economic benefits of the exploitation, exchange, and sale of animals. Deadly zoonotic diseases, Nibert shows, have accompanied violent developments throughout history, laying waste to whole cities, societies, and civilizations. His most powerful insight situates the domesecration of animals as a precondition for the oppression of human populations, particularly indigenous peoples, an injustice impossible to rectify while the material interests of the elite are inextricably linked to the exploitation of animals. Nibert links domesecration to some of the most critical issues facing the world today, including the depletion of fresh water, topsoil, and oil reserves; global warming; and world hunger, and he reviews the U.S. government's military response to the inevitable crises of an overheated, hungry, resource-depleted world. Most animal-advocacy campaigns reinforce current oppressive practices, Nibert argues. Instead, he suggests reforms that challenge the legitimacy of both domesecration and capitalism.
Author: Jan P. de Groot
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1997-07-14
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 0230378080
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Agricultural development in Central America is based on extensive growth, supported by macroeconomic policies that marginalize small peasants. Deforestation, erosion and resource depletion are particularly severe. This book offers a comprehensive review of the perspectives for state policies and local action to enhance sustainable agriculture. Macroeconomic conditions and institutional arrangements for the establishment of sustainable production systems in different eco-regional settings (hillsides, humid tropics, frontier areas) are discussed, as well as policy instruments to improve property rights, management rules and financial mechanisms to enhance sustainable resource use.
Author: Simeon Ehui
Publisher: ILRI (aka ILCA and ILRAD)
Published: 2004-01-01
Total Pages: 346
ISBN-13: 9789291461578
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: John Soluri
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2018-02-19
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 1785333917
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Though still a relatively young field, the study of Latin American environmental history is blossoming, as the contributions to this definitive volume demonstrate. Bringing together thirteen leading experts on the region, A Living Past synthesizes a wide range of scholarship to offer new perspectives on environmental change in Latin America and the Spanish Caribbean since the nineteenth century. Each chapter provides insightful, up-to-date syntheses of current scholarship on critical countries and ecosystems (including Brazil, Mexico, the Caribbean, the tropical Andes, and tropical forests) and such cross-cutting themes as agriculture, conservation, mining, ranching, science, and urbanization. Together, these studies provide valuable historical contexts for making sense of contemporary environmental challenges facing the region.
Author: United Nations Environment Programme
Publisher: UNEP/Earthprint
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9789280722949
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Daniel Buckles
Publisher: IDRC
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 231
ISBN-13: 0889368414
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Cover Crops in Hillside Agriculture: Farmer innovation with Mucuna
Author: Allen Blackman
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-05-23
Total Pages: 189
ISBN-13: 1317906861
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region is exceptionally biodiverse. It contains about half of the world’s remaining tropical forests, nearly one-fifth of its coastal habitats, and some of its most productive agricultural and marine areas. But agriculture, fishing and other human activities linked to rapid population and economic growth increasingly threaten that biodiversity. Moreover, poverty, weak regulatory capacity, and limited political will hamper conservation. Given this dilemma, it is critically important to design conservation strategies on the basis of the best available information about both biodiversity and the track records of the various policies that have been used to protect it. This rigorously researched book has three key aims. It describes the status of biodiversity in LAC, the main threats to this biodiversity, and the drivers of these threats. It identifies the main policies being used to conserve biodiversity and assesses their effectiveness and potential for further implementation. It proposes five specific lines of practical action for conserving LAC biodiversity, based on: green agriculture; strengthening terrestrial protected areas and co-management; improving environmental governance; strengthening coastal and marine resource management; and improving biodiversity data and policy evaluation.
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Publisher: Bib. Orton IICA / CATIE
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 498
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