Tropical agricultural landscapes

Tropical Agroecosystems

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 195-218

  Rice, Robert A ^a  

^a SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947590618     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: None     Document Type: Chapter

References (80)

1. Alexandratos, N., World Agriculture: Towards 2010, FAO and John Wiley & Sons, Chichester, U.K., 1998, p. 359.
2. Altieri, M., Why Study Traditional Agriculture? in Agroecology, Carroll, R., Vandermeer, J., and Rosset, P., Eds., McGraw-Hill, New York, 1990, p. 551-564.
3. ASB (Alternatives to Slash and Burn Agriculture Program), wwwscas.cit.cornell. edu/ecf3/Web/AF/ASBMain.html, 1999.
4. Atran, S. et al., Folk ecology and commons management in the Maya lowlands, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., 96:7598-7603, 1999.
5. Barham, B. et al., Non-traditional agricultural exports in Latin America: toward an appraisal, Latin Am. Res. Rev., 27:43-82, 1993.
6. Barkin, D., Batt, R.L., and DeWalt, B.R., Food Crops vs. Feed Crops: Global Substitution of Grains in Production, Rienner, Boulder, CO, 1990.
7. Blaikie, P. and Brookfield, H., Land Degradation and Society, Methuen, New York, NY, 1987.
8. Brookfield, H. and Padoch, C., Appreciating agrodiversity: a look at the dynamism and diversity of indigenous farming practices, Environment, 36:6-11, 37-45, 1994.
9. Carletto, C., de Janvry, A., and Sadoulet, E., Sustainability in the diffusion of innovations:smallholder nontraditional agro-exports in Guatemala, Econ. Dev. Cult. Change, 47:345, 1999.
10. Conroy, M.E., Murray, D.L., and Rosset, P.M., A Cautionary Tale: Failed U.S. Development Policy in Central America, Food First Books, Oakland, CA, 1996.
11. Denevan, W.M., The pristine myth: the landscape of the Americas in 1492, Ann. Assoc. Am. Geogr., 82:369-385, 1992.
12. Dove, M.R., Theories of swidden agriculture, and the political economy of ignorance, Agrofor. Syst., 1:85-99, 1983.
13. Dufour, D.L., Use of tropical rainforests by native Amazonians, Bioscience, 40:652-659, 1990.
14. FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations), Agricultural Production Statistics, http://apps.fao.org/, 1961a, 1999a, 2000a.
15. FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations), Land Use Statistics, http://apps.fao.org/, 1961b, 1999b, 2000b.
16. Goodman, D., Agro-food studies in the ‘age of ecology’: nature, corporeality, bio-politics, Sociol. Ruralis, 39:17-38, 1999.
17. Goodman, D., Sorj, B., and Wilkinson, J., From Farming to Biotechnology: A Theory of Agro-Industrial Development, Basil Blackwell, New York, 1987.
18. Green, D. Trapped by trade (Latin American food exports), Geogr. Mag., 67:12-16, 1995.
19. Greenberg, R., Bichier, P., and Sterling, J., Bird populations in rustic and planted shade coffee plantations of eastern Chiapas, Mexico, Biotropica, 29:501-514, 1997a.
20. Greenberg, R. et al., Bird populations in shade and sun coffee plantations in central Guatemala, Conserv. Biol., 11:448-459, 1997b.
21. Greenberg, R. et al., The impact of avian insectivory on arthropods and leaf damage in some Guatemalan coffee plantations, Ecology, 81:1750-1755, 2000.
22. Grossman, L.S., The political ecology of banana exports and local food production in St. Vincent, Eastern Caribbean, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 83(2):347-468, 1993.
23. Hecht, S.B., Environment, development and politics: capital accumulation and the livestock sector, World Dev., 13:663-684, 1985.
24. Houghton, R.A., Lefkowitz, D.S., and Skole, D.L., Changes in the landscape of Latin America between 1850 and 1985. I. Progressive loss of forests, For. Ecol. Manage., 38:143-172, 1991.
25. Ibarra-Nuñez, G., Arthropods associated with coffee plants in mixed coffee plantations at Soconusco, Chiapas, Mexico, Folia Entomol. Mex., 97:207-233, 1990.
26. Jaffee, S., Exporting High-Value Food Commodities: Success Stories from Developing Countries, World Bank Discussion Paper 189, World Bank, Washington, D.C., 1993.
27. Jarosz, L., Defining and explaining tropical deforestation: shifting cultivation and population growth in colonial Madagascar (1896-1940), Econ. Geogr., 69:366-379, 1993.
28. Jordan, C.F., Ed., An Amazonian rain forest: the structure and function of a nutrient stressed ecosystem and the impact of slash-and-burn agriculture, Parthenon Publishing Group, Park Ridge, NJ, 1989, Chapter 5.
29. Kautsky, K., The Agrarian Question, Zwan Publications, London, 1988.
30. Maggs, J. The power of flowers to bring peace (Colombia’s cut flower industry), Natl. J., August 21:2440, 1999.
31. Mercer, D.E. and Miller, R.P. Socioeconomic research in agroforestry: progress, prospects, priorities, Agrofor. Syst., 38:177-193, 1998.
32. Mitchell, D., The Lie of the Land: Migrant Workers and the California Landscape, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1996.
33. Murdoch, J., Inhuman/nonhuman/human: actor-network theory and the prospects for a nondualistic and symmetrical perspective on nature and society, Environ. Plann. D: Soc. Space, 15:731-756, 1997.
34. Murray, D., Cultivating Crisis: The Human Cost of Pesticides in Latin America, University of Texas Press, Austin, TX, 1994.
35. Nair, P.K.R., Do tropical home gardens elude science, or is it the other way round?, paper presented at the International Symposium on Multi-strata Agroforestry Systems with Perennial Crops, Turrialba, Costa Rica, 1999.
36. Nair, P.K.R. et al., Nutrient cycling in tropical agroforestry systems: myths and science, in Agroforestry in Sustainable Agricultural Systems, Buck, L.E., Lassoie, J.P., and Fernandes, E.C.M., Eds., CRC Press/Lewis Publishers, Boca Raton, FL, 1999, p. 1-32.
37. National Research Council, Agroforestry systems, in Sustainable Agriculture and the Environment in the Humid Tropics, National Academy Press, Washington, D.C., 1993, pp. 92-99.
38. Nestel, D., Dickschen, F., and Altieri, M.A., Diversity patterns of soil macro-Coleoptera in Mexican shaded and unshaded coffee agroecosystems: an indication of habitat perturbation, Biodiversity Conserv., 2:70-78, 1993.
39. Nye, P.H., and Greenland, D.J., The Soil under Shifting Cultivation, Commonwealth Agricultural Bureau, Farnham Royal, U.K., 1965.
40. Oglesby, E., Managers, Migrants and Work-place Control: the Politics of Production on Guatemalan Sugar Plantations, 1980 to the present, paper presented at the Latin American Labor History Conference, Duke University, Durham, NC, 2000.
41. Oglesby, E., Machos and machetes in Guatemala’s cane fields, NACLA: Rep. Am., 34:16-17, 2001.
42. Oxfam, A Future for Caribbean Bananas: The Importance of Europe’s Banana Market to the Caribbean, Oxfam GB Policy Paper-Mar. 98; http://www.oxfam.org.uk/policy/papers/bananas/bananas.htm Padoch, C., Harwell, E., and Susanto, A., Swidden, sawah, and in-between: agricultural transformation in Borneo, Hum. Ecol. Interdisciplinary J., 26:3-21, 1998.
43. Parrish, J.D. et al., Cacao as Crop and Conservation Tool in Latin America: Addressing the Needs of Farmers and Forest Biodiversity, Working Paper 3, Latin America and Caribbean Region, International Conservation Program, The Nature Conservancy:Arlington, VA, 1999.
44. Parsons, J.J., Antioqueño colonization in western Colombia, in Ibero-americana:32, University of California Press, Berkeley, 1949.
45. Perfecto, I. et al., Shade coffee: a disappearing refuge for biodiversity, Bioscience, 46(8):598-609, 1996.
46. Pimentel, D. et al., Conserving biological diversity in agricultural/forestry systems, Bioscience, 42:354-362, 1992.
47. Postel, S., Pillar of Sand: Can the Irrigation Miracle Last?, WW. Norton, New York, 1999.
48. Raynolds, L., Restructuring national agriculture, agro-food trade, and agrarian livelihoods in the Caribbean, in Globalizing Food: Agrarian Questions and Global Restructuring, Goodman, D. and Watts, M.J., Eds., Routledge, New York, 1999, p. 119-132.
49. Rice, R., A place unbecoming: the coffee farm of northern Latin America, Geogr. Rev., 89:554-579, 1999.
50. Rice, R. and Greenberg, R., Cacao cultivation and the conservation of biological diversity, Ambio, 29:167-173, 2000.
51. Rice, R. and Vandermeer, J., Climate and the geography of agriculture, in Agroecology, Carroll, C.R., Vandermeer, J.H., and Rosset, P.M., Eds., McGraw-Hill, New York, 1990, p. 21-64.
52. Rice, R. and Ward, J., Coffee, Conservation and Commerce in the Western Hemisphere (Policy White Paper 2), Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center/National Zoological Park, Washington, D.C., 1996.
53. Roberts, D., Cooper, R.J., and Petit, L.J., Use of premontane moist forest and shade coffee agroecosystems by army ants in western Panama, Conserv. Biol., 14:192-199, 2000a.
54. Roberts, D., Cooper, R.J., and Petit, L.J., Flock characteristics of ant-following birds in premontane moist forest and coffee agroecosystems, Ecol. Appl., 10:1414-1425, 2000b.
55. Rocheleau, D., Confronting complexity, dealing with difference: social context, content, and practice in agroforestry, in Agroforestry in Sustainable Agricultural Systems, Buck, L.E., Lassoie, J.P., and Fernandes, E.C.M., Eds., CRC Press/Lewis Publishers, Boca Raton, FL, 1999, p. 191-235.
56. Rosset, P., The multiple functions and benefits of small farm agriculture in the context of global trade negotiations, paper presented at Cultivating Our Futures, the FAO/Netherlands conference on the Multifunctional character of Agriculture and Land, Maastricht, The Netherlands, 1999a.
57. Rosset, P., Small if bountiful, Ecologist, 29:452-459, 1999b.
58. Rosset, P., Rice, R., and Watts, M., Thailand and the world tomato: globalization, new agricultural countries (NACs) and the agrarian question, Int. J. Soc. Agric. Food, 8:71-94, 1999.
59. Ruddle, K., The Yukpa Cultivation System: A Study of Shifting Cultivation in Colombia and Venezuela, University of California Press, Berkeley, 1974.
60. Ruf, F., From forest rent to tree-capital: basic “laws” of cocoa supply, in Cocoa Cycles: The Economics of Cocoa Supply, Ruf, F. and Siswoputranto, P.S., Eds., Woodhead Publishing, Ltd., Cambridge, England, 1995, p. 1-53.
61. Sauer, C.O., The morphology of landscape, in Land and Life: A Selection from the Writings of Carl Ortwin Sauer, Leighly, J., Ed., University of California Press, Berkeley, 1963, p. 315-350.
62. Sherry, T.W., Shade coffee: a good brew even in small doses, The Auk, 117:563-568, 2000.
63. Sousa, I.S.F. de and Busch, L., Networks and agricultural development: the case of soybean production and consumption in Brazil, Rural Soc., 63:349-371, 1998.
64. Spencer, J.E., Shifting Cultivation in Southeastern Asia, University of California Press, Berkeley, 1966.
65. Thrupp, L.A., Bittersweet Harvests for Global Supermarkets: Challenges in Latin America’s Agricultural Export Boom, World Resources Institute, Washington, D.C., 1995.
66. Thrupp, L.A., Cultivating Diversity: Agrobiodiversity and Food Security, World Resources Institute, Washington, D.C., 1998.
67. Thrupp, L.A., Hecht, S., and Browder, J., The Diversity and Dynamics of Shifting Cultivation:Myths, Realities, and Policy Implications, World Resources Institute, Washington, D.C., 1997.
68. U.S. Department of Agriculture, A Time to Act: A Report of the USDA National Commission on Small Farms, USDA Miscellaneous Publication 1545, USDA, Washington, D.C., 1998.
69. Vandermeer, J. and Perfecto, I., Breakfast of Biodiversity: The Truth About Rain Forest Destruction, Food First, Oakland, CA, 1995.
70. Vandermeer, J. and Perfecto, I., The agroecosystem: the need for a conservation biologist’s lens, Conserv. Biol., 11:591-592, 1997.
71. Watts, M.J. and Goodman, D., Agrarian questions: global appetite, local metabolism: nature, culture, and industry in fin-de-siècle agro-food systems, in Globalizing Food: Agrarian Questions and Global Restructuring, Goodman, D. and Watts, M.J., Eds., Routledge, New York, 1999, p. 1-34.
72. Williams, R.G., Export Agriculture and the Crisis in Central America, University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 1986.
73. Woods, M., Researching rural conflicts: hunting local politics and actor-networks, J. Rural Stud., 14:321-340, 1997.
74. World Resources Institute (WRI), World Resources: 1998-99, Environmental Change and Human Health, Oxford University Press, New York, 1998, p. 47-49; 157.
75. Wright, A., The Death of Ramón González, University of Texas Press, Austin, 1990.
76. Wunderle, J.M., Jr., Avian distribution in Dominican shade coffee plantations: area and habitat relationships, J. Field Ornith., 70:58-70, 1999.
77. Wunderle, J.M., Jr. and Latta, S.C., Avian abundance in sun and shade coffee plantations and remnant pine forest in the Cordillera Central, Dominican Republic, Ornith. Neotrop., 7:19-34, 1996.
78. Wunderle, J.M., Jr. and Latta, S.C., Avian resource use in Dominican shade coffee plantations, Wilson Bull., 110:271-281, 1998.
79. Wunderle, J.M., Jr. and Latta, S.C., Winter site fidelity of Nearctic migrants in shade coffee plantations of different sizes in the Dominican Republic, The Auk, 117:596-614, 2000.
80. Zimmerer, K. and Young, K., Nature’s Geography: New Lessons for Conservation in Developing Countries, University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, 1998.