Livestock And Deforestation In Central America In The 1980s And 1990s
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Livestock and Deforestation in Central America in the 1980s and 1990s
Author | : David Kaimowitz |
Publsiher | : IICA Biblioteca Venezuela |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Agriculture |
ISBN | : 9182736450XXX |
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Agricultural Technologies and Tropical Deforestation
Author | : Arild Angelsen,David Kaimowitz |
Publsiher | : CABI |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 2001-04-20 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0851998992 |
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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.
Animal Oppression and Human Violence
Author | : David A. Nibert |
Publsiher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 349 |
Release | : 2013-05-07 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9780231525510 |
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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.
Sustainable Agriculture in Central America
Author | : Jan P. de Groot,R. Ruben |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 1997-07-14 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780230378087 |
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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.
A Living Past
Author | : John Soluri,Claudia Leal,José Augusto Pádua |
Publsiher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 2018-02-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781785333910 |
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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.
Adapting Social Science to the Changing Focus of International Agricultural Research
Author | : Simeon Ehui,John K. Lynam,I. Okike |
Publsiher | : ILRI (aka ILCA and ILRAD) |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 2004-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9291461571 |
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GEO Latin America and the Caribbean
Author | : United Nations Environment Programme |
Publsiher | : UNEP/Earthprint |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Caribbean Area |
ISBN | : 9280722948 |
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Cover Crops in Hillside Agriculture
Author | : Daniel Buckles,Bernard Triomphe,Gustavo Sain,International Development Research Centre (Canada),International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center |
Publsiher | : IDRC |
Total Pages | : 231 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Agricultural innovations |
ISBN | : 9780889368415 |
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Cover Crops in Hillside Agriculture: Farmer innovation with Mucuna