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HARDBACK list:$54.95 Web:$49.46 add to cart PDF BOOK your price: $42.50 add to cart Rights & Permissions Free Resources PDF EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Display this book on your site! Related Titles Population, Land Use, and Environment: Research Directions The Changing Transitions to Adulthood in Developing Countries: Selected Studies Other Related Titles Sustainable Agriculture and the Environment in the Humid Tropics (1993) Board on Agriculture (BOA) Web Search Builder Use this book's key terms to search within this book, across our collection, or across the Web. Skim This Chapter Skim this chapter and use this chapter's key terms to search within this book. Reference Finder Paste in your own text to find books that relate to your topic. Page 261   E-mail  Facebook  Digg  Stumble  Twitter More The following HTML text is provided to enhance online readability. Many aspects of typography translate only awkwardly to HTML. Please use the page image as the authoritative form to ensure accuracy. PART TWO Page 261 Front Matter (R1-R16) Executive Summary (1-18) Part One (19-20) 1 Agriculture and the Environment in the Humid Tropics (21-65) 2 Sustainable Land Use Options (66-137) 3 Technological Imperatives for Change (138-158) 4 Policy-Related Imperatives for Change (159-191) References (192-214) Appendix: Emissions of Greenhouse Gases from Tropical Deforestation and Subsequent Uses of the Land (215-260) Part Two: Country Profiles (261-264) Brazil (265-351) C te d (352-392) Indonesia (393-439) Malaysia (440-482) Mexico (483-548) The Philippines (549-624) Zaire (625-658) Glossary (659-674) Authors (675-678) Index (679-704)

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Sustainable Agriculture and the Environment in the HUMID TROPICS PART TWO

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Sustainable Agriculture and the Environment in the HUMID TROPICS Country Profiles The seven country profiles that constitute Part Two of this book are an integral part of the committee's report. They represent a portion of the data, observations, and insights that the committee amassed during the course of its study. Authors were selected based on broad recognition, by their scientific peers, of their authority and scientific knowledge of the deforestation and sustainable agriculture issues in the selected countries. The profiles on Brazil, Côte d'Ivoire, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mexico, the Philippines, and Zaire portray the pressures on natural resources that these countries face and ways they can be mitigated. They tell part of the story of what is happening in the humid tropics. The profiles represent each of the three major humid tropic regions —Africa, Asia, and Latin America—and include discussions on land use and forest conversion, general causes and consequences of deforestation, sustainable land use alternatives, and policy implications. Discussions focusing on only 7 of the more than 60 countries lying within the humid tropics cannot and do not represent the status of science, agricultural and land use practices, and policy of all humid tropic countries. They do, however, illustrate the diversity of production sys-

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Sustainable Agriculture and the Environment in the HUMID TROPICS tems, with their unique environmental, social, and market niches, that can be found in any given locale or region. These varied presentations reinforce the committee's three major findings concerning the potential to restore degraded lands, the range of appropriate land uses, and the capacity for general economic growth with real-world examples. No single type of land use can simultaneously meet all the requirements for sustainability or fit the diverse socioeconomic and ecological conditions found throughout the humid tropics. The seven country profiles provide examples of many of the options within the land use continuum that the committee outlines in Part One. They also illustrate the committee's view that progress toward sustainability in the humid tropics depends not only on the availability of improved techniques of land use, but on the creation of a more favorable environment for their development, dissemination, and implementation.

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