This book includes a theoretical framework, 8 case studies from Latin America, 4 from sub-Saharan Africa and 4 from South East Asia, in addition to two studies on the historical experience of developed countries in Europe and the USA which discuss whether improvements in agricultural technology...

The conflict between land use for agriculture vs forest is discussed in relation to land use policy in developing countries.

In a summary of the book, six representative situations regarding the link between agricultural technology and deforestation in different agricultural systems are presented. These are the history of developed countries, commodity booms, shifting cultivation, permanent (rain-fed) agriculture,...

An ex ante evaluation of factors affecting farmers' land use is presented, using surveyed data gathered from low-income maize and vegetable farmers in a southern Philippines watershed at the forest margin to measure how land and labour allocations for various crops respond to changes in expected...

An examination was made of the way in which the introduction of lowland irrigation systems, a form of technical progress, has affected the demand for labour and, by extension, farmers' activities near the forest margins in Palawan. Agricultural outcomes are compared in two adjacent and similar...

This paper examines the interactions between productivity-enhancing technological change in agricultural sectors and deforestation, focusing on responses to market forces, using a number of situations in tropical Asia. A summary of models, scenarios and effects on forest cover is tabulated.

This paper is based on farm surveys and historical reviews of regional cocoa cycles conducted in 1980-1985 and 1997/98 in Côte d'Ivoire and in 1989-1999 in Sulawesi (Indonesia). A qualitative model of cocoa cycles is presented. The adoption of cocoa and new manual techniques of forest clearing and...

This paper examines how controlling livestock trypanosomiasis, transmitted by tsetse-fly (Glossina spp.), affects the rate and location of agricultural expansion in Ghibe Valley, Ethiopia. Control of the disease will reduce animal mortality, increase productivity per animal and cause livestock...

Economic theory and agroecosystem analysis were used to assess the effects of technological changes on deforestation during the 20th century in the miombo savanna woodlands of northern Zambia. Historical facts concerning demographic, policy and technological changes are combined with applied farm...

A definition and conceptual framework for sustainable and unsustainable agricultural intensification for forest areas in Africa are presented. The macro- and sectoral-level policy reforms are discussed, and some examples of both sustainable and unsustainable intensification of African agriculture...