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Agroforestry In Tropical Land Use With Special Reference To The Peruvian Amazon
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Book Synopsis Agroforestry in Tropical Land Use with Special Reference to the Peruvian Amazon by : Martti Poutanen
Download or read book Agroforestry in Tropical Land Use with Special Reference to the Peruvian Amazon written by Martti Poutanen and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research report on agroforestry in the tropical zone of the Peruvian Amazonia - considers the characteristics and ecological aspects of agroforestry; looks at the evolution of agricultural production and forestry, shifting cultivation and animal production; discusses trends in and prospects for agroforestry, as well as related forestry research. Bibliography, photographs, questionnaire, statistical tables.
Book Synopsis Agroforestry in Tropical Land Use with Special Reference to the Peruvian Amazon by : Martti Poutanen
Download or read book Agroforestry in Tropical Land Use with Special Reference to the Peruvian Amazon written by Martti Poutanen and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research report on agroforestry in the tropical zone of the Peruvian Amazonia - considers the characteristics and ecological aspects of agroforestry; looks at the evolution of agricultural production and forestry, shifting cultivation and animal production; discusses trends in and prospects for agroforestry, as well as related forestry research. Bibliography, photographs, questionnaire, statistical tables.
Book Synopsis Agroforestry in Tropical Land Use with Special Reference to the Peruvian Am Azon by : Martti Poutanen
Download or read book Agroforestry in Tropical Land Use with Special Reference to the Peruvian Am Azon written by Martti Poutanen and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Community forest management in the Peruvian Amazon by : Rosa Cossío
Download or read book Community forest management in the Peruvian Amazon written by Rosa Cossío and published by CIFOR. This book was released on 2014-03-19 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This review summarizes the published literature, as well as any available information provided by NGOs or project proponents, on the practice of community forest management (CFM) in the Peruvian Amazon. It provides an overview of literature related to land-use and forest management by rural populations in the Peruvian Amazon, placing this information in the broader context of the forestry sector in Peru. The review describes the different manifestations of CFM in Peru and the most widely studied cases of CFM projects. The document also examines some emerging initiatives, summarizes the main challenges for CFM and highlights important areas for future research. One key finding of this review is that there is a general lack of scientific analyses of CFM in Peru: most information is available only via project reports prepared by project proponents and/or donors. The review stresses that community forest management takes many forms. People throughout the Amazon have long relied on forest resources for their shifting cultivation systems, and timber and NTFPs are central to the livelihoods of many. Typically, forest use has occurred informally with little oversight or control by the state. Beginning in the 1980s, environmental NGOs have introduced CFM initiatives in Peru. To date, most CFM projects focus only on indigenous communities to support timber management; by contrast, scientific studies have focused on forest use within subsistence livelihood systems. Given that there are approximately 2 million non-indigenous rural Amazonians in Peru, the forest footprint and market impacts of non-indigenous smallholder forest management are likely to be much greater than recognized. However, very little is known about these endogenous smallholder-led systems. More research is needed to increase our understanding of the heterogeneity of these systems and the opportunities and challenges that they represent.
Book Synopsis Tropical Rainforests and Agroforests under Global Change by : Teja Tscharntke
Download or read book Tropical Rainforests and Agroforests under Global Change written by Teja Tscharntke and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-02-04 with total page 535 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: not only for land use systems that depend on the regular supply of rain or irrigation water but also for the future development of natural rainforests as drought stress has been shown to a?ect tree growth and species composition in old-growth forests (Wright 1991, Walsh and Newbery 1999, Engelbrecht et al. 2007). A drought experiment conducted in a cacao agroforestry plantation showed that this plantation was surprisingly resilient to an induced drought of more than a year (Schwendenmann et al. 2009). However, droughts can have a strong impact on household incomes from agriculture, they strongly a?ect the vulnerability to poverty and thus have to be analyzed as important exogenous shocks to households, forcing them to adjust their behaviour and develop strategies to cope with these problems. The stability of rainforest margins is a critical factor in the protection of tropical rainforests (Tscharntke et al. 2007). At present, however, rainf- est margins in many parts of the tropics are far from stable, both in soc- economic and in ecological terms. For example, protected areas may attract, rather than repel, human settlement, which may be due to international donor investment in national conservation programs (Wittemeyer et al. 2008). An alternative hypothesis is that protected areas might be compromised if leakage takes place, that is, if impacts that would take place inside the restricted area are displaced to a nearby, undisturbed area (Ewers and Rodrigues 2008).
Book Synopsis Public Policy and Spatial Variation in Land Use and Land Cover in the Southeastern Peruvian Amazon by : Andrea B. Chavez
Download or read book Public Policy and Spatial Variation in Land Use and Land Cover in the Southeastern Peruvian Amazon written by Andrea B. Chavez and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Targeted household surveys provided an analysis of how these occurrences influenced their livelihood decision-making processes. The evaluation of the changing driving forces focused on how policies influenced the outcome of economic processes. The results show that distinct policies are associated with different patterns of land-use/landcover change. For example, policies that favored cattle expansion influenced an increase in pasture areas. Policies associated with credit availability facilitated the expansion of agriculture areas, increasing deforestation. The results of the dissertation have implications not only for understanding tropical deforestation and land-use/land-cover change, but also for policymaking in Peru and other countries that share the Amazon and other tropical rainforests.
Book Synopsis Agroforestry and Biodiversity Conservation in Tropical Landscapes by : Götz Schroth
Download or read book Agroforestry and Biodiversity Conservation in Tropical Landscapes written by Götz Schroth and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2013-03-22 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agroforestry -- the practice of integrating trees and other large woody perennials on farms and throughout the agricultural landscape -- is increasingly recognized as a useful and promising strategy that diversifies production for greater social, economic, and environmental benefits. Agroforestry and BiodiversityConservation in Tropical Landscapes brings together 46 scientists and practitioners from 13 countries with decades of field experience in tropical regions to explore how agroforestry practices can help promote biodiversity conservation in human-dominated landscapes, to synthesize the current state of knowledge in the field, and to identify areas where further research is needed. Agroforestry and Biodiversity Conservation in Tropical Landscapes is the first comprehensive synthesis of the role of agroforestry systems in conserving biodiversity in tropical landscapes, and contains in-depth review chapters of most agroforestry systems, with examples from many different countries. It is a valuable source of information for scientists, researchers, professors, and students in the fields of conservation biology, resource management, tropical ecology, rural development, agroforestry, and agroecology.
Book Synopsis An Introduction to Agroforestry by : P. K. Ramachandran Nair
Download or read book An Introduction to Agroforestry written by P. K. Ramachandran Nair and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-01-12 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agroforestry – the practice of growing trees and crops in interacting combinations – is recognized the world over as an integrated approach to sustainable land-use. Agroforestry systems, being multifunctional, facilitate not only the production of food and wood products but also provide a variety of ecosystem services such as climate-change mitigation, biodiversity conservation, and soil quality improvement. Agroforestry research has made rapid strides since organized efforts started in the late 1970s. Today, a vast body of scientific knowledge and an impressive array of publications on agroforestry are available. Four World Congresses on Agroforestry conducted once every five years since 2004 have brought together the global community of agroforestry professionals and practitioners to share and discuss the emerging trends and paradigm shifts in this field. The fifth Congress is scheduled to be held in Québec, Canada. However, a comprehensive college-level textbook incorporating these research findings did not exist until this book was first published. The first edition of this book in 1993 (Nair, P. K. R., 1993) is out of print and somewhat dated. This revised edition, with emphasis on the scientific developments during the past more than four decades, addresses this long-felt need.
Download or read book Agroforestry Abstracts written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Community forest management in the Peruvian Amazon by : Rosa Cossío
Download or read book Community forest management in the Peruvian Amazon written by Rosa Cossío and published by CIFOR. This book was released on 2014-03-19 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This review summarizes the published literature, as well as any available information provided by NGOs or project proponents, on the practice of community forest management (CFM) in the Peruvian Amazon. It provides an overview of literature related to land-use and forest management by rural populations in the Peruvian Amazon, placing this information in the broader context of the forestry sector in Peru. The review describes the different manifestations of CFM in Peru and the most widely studied cases of CFM projects. The document also examines some emerging initiatives, summarizes the main challenges for CFM and highlights important areas for future research. One key finding of this review is that there is a general lack of scientific analyses of CFM in Peru: most information is available only via project reports prepared by project proponents and/or donors. The review stresses that community forest management takes many forms. People throughout the Amazon have long relied on forest resources for their shifting cultivation systems, and timber and NTFPs are central to the livelihoods of many. Typically, forest use has occurred informally with little oversight or control by the state. Beginning in the 1980s, environmental NGOs have introduced CFM initiatives in Peru. To date, most CFM projects focus only on indigenous communities to support timber management; by contrast, scientific studies have focused on forest use within subsistence livelihood systems. Given that there are approximately 2 million non-indigenous rural Amazonians in Peru, the forest footprint and market impacts of non-indigenous smallholder forest management are likely to be much greater than recognized. However, very little is known about these endogenous smallholder-led systems. More research is needed to increase our understanding of the heterogeneity of these systems and the opportunities and challenges that they represent.
Book Synopsis Abstracts on Tropical Agriculture by :
Download or read book Abstracts on Tropical Agriculture written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Potential of Agroforestry Concessions to Stabilize Amazonian Forest Frontiers: a Case Study on the Economic and Environmental Robustness of Informally Settled Small-scale Cocoa Farmers in Peru by : Benno Pokorny
Download or read book The Potential of Agroforestry Concessions to Stabilize Amazonian Forest Frontiers: a Case Study on the Economic and Environmental Robustness of Informally Settled Small-scale Cocoa Farmers in Peru written by Benno Pokorny and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: Agroforestry Concessions, foreseen by the new Peruvian Forest Law, anticipate integrating thousands of small-scale farmers encroached on public forest land into the formal economy, to strengthen local livelihoods, stimulate land restoration, and halt deforestation. But, there are contrasting opinions regarding the potential of agroforestry and land tenure security to create economically and environmentally robust livelihoods. To better understand the relevance of this potential, this study analyses the economic and environmental robustness of 118 informally settled small-scale cocoa farmers in three districts in the Peruvian Amazon. The study shows that the vast majority of these farmers faced serious obstacles to overcome. Less than 20 % of the households have managed to establish economically robust livelihoods on a robust natural production basis. Farm size, specialization in cocoa, and participation in associations positively influenced the economic performance of the households but had little effect on the quality of natural resource management and on the capacity to conserve forests. To harness the potential of cocoa farming requires long-term support well adapted to local specificities. The legal recognition of sustainable land-use practices on public forest land is a meaningful step. To effectively address deforestation, however, requires broader integrated approaches that go far beyond the promotion of sustainable land-uses
Book Synopsis Tropical Forest Conservation and Development by : Jean Albrecht
Download or read book Tropical Forest Conservation and Development written by Jean Albrecht and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Tropical Rainforests and Agroforests Under Global Change by : Melanie Grosse
Download or read book Tropical Rainforests and Agroforests Under Global Change written by Melanie Grosse and published by Universitätsverlag Göttingen. This book was released on 2008 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human-induced land-use intensification and climate change are major global change drivers likely to continue for a long time. This international symposium provides an open platform for all scientists from socio-economic and natural sciences interested in the effects of global change on rainforests and agroforests. Balancing the ecological and socio-economic benefits of different agroforestry systems, comparing patterns and processes in managed agroforest and natural forest, and modeling the dynamics of land-use change and related resource degradation under various policy scenarios are major topics of this symposium.
Book Synopsis The Farmers of Yurimaguas by : Robert E. Rhoades
Download or read book The Farmers of Yurimaguas written by Robert E. Rhoades and published by International Potato Center. This book was released on 1987 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Land-use Legacies in Shifting Cultivation Systems of the Peruvian Amazon by : Sylvia Louise Wood
Download or read book Land-use Legacies in Shifting Cultivation Systems of the Peruvian Amazon written by Sylvia Louise Wood and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Shifting cultivation is a dominant but controversial land use in tropical forest regions. Although it forms the economic backbone for millions of remote forest-dwelling farmers, shifting cultivation has also been blamed as a leading driver of deforestation and degradation. With the expansion of more intensive land-use practices in tropical regions, however, shifting cultivation is being re-examined as a potential win-win solution to the dual challenges of conservation and rural livelihoods. Preservation of forest cover through fallows helps to maintain soil fertility and biodiversity needed for these systems to remain productive and to support ecosystem services over decades or centuries of repeated cultivation. To date, few studies have examined the capacity of forest fallows to maintain these ecological functions as the length and intensity of land management increases. Fewer still have examined how the socio-economic status of farmers may influence these patterns. In this dissertation, I examined the cumulative ecological impacts of repeated shifting cultivation on a suite of ecosystem services provided by forest fallows after 50+ years of land management in a small farming community in the Peruvian Amazon. I also explored the links between economic inequality (as measured by total landholdings) and ecosystem service provision through wealth-mediated land management practices. Using a combination of household interviews, geo-spatial mapping of fields and ecological sampling, I found that fallow soil fertility declined with number of past cultivation cycles and with rising land-use intensity but retained sufficient levels of soil organic matter to support continued crop production. Fallow tree biodiversity declined continuously with time since clearing and was not influenced by past land management practices. These ecological outcomes were in part moderated by the size of farmers' landholdings. Soils of larger landholders had higher soil fertility than those of smaller landholders as a result of less intensive land use practiced by these farmers, while fallows of larger landholders also harbored more and different late successional and climax species than fallows of smaller landholders. In a comparison of trade-offs among ecosystem services provided by commercially-oriented orchards (more often planted by large landholders) and fallows (more typical of smaller landholders), I found that orchards provided moderate economic benefits over fallows with few lasting negative effects on biodiversity and ecosystem services when planted at small scales. My results suggest that shifting cultivation may provide a reasonable win-win solution for conservation and livelihoods goals. If managed well, these lands can maintain soil fertility, but will gradually lose tree biodiversity through time. Contrary to popular thought, inequality in landholdings may actually help to retain a larger species pool across the landscape by preserving distinct sets of species under different management regimes. Although characterized by mostly fast growing and reproducing pioneer species, these forest fallows appear to maintain many of the basic forest ecological functions needed to support continued shifting cultivation. " --
Book Synopsis Recovery of Tropical Forest Structure on Former Agricultural Land in the Peruvian Amazon by : Loïc Cecilio Rebola
Download or read book Recovery of Tropical Forest Structure on Former Agricultural Land in the Peruvian Amazon written by Loïc Cecilio Rebola and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
