Farms, Trees and Farmers Responses to Agricultural Intensification

About this book

Documents major advances in our knowledge of the economic and social role of trees, and how this role has changed with the intensification of agriculture.

Contents

Part 1 Overview: Framing the issues. Part 2 Trends in farmer tree growing: Rearranging trees in the landscape in the middle hills of Nepal; trends in tree management in arid land use in Western Rajasthan; the shift of tree cover from forests to farms in Pakistan; patterns of tree growing by farmers in Eastern Africa. Part 3 Factors influencing farmer decisions: Meeting household needs; farmer tree-growing strategies in Western Kenya; farmer responses to tree scarcity - the case of woodfuel; wood product markets as incentives for farmer tree growing; tree planting and household land and labour allocation; case studies from Kenya and India. Part 4: conclusions; retrospect and prospect.

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Biography

J E Michael Arnold is a forest economist who was formerly at the Oxford Forestry Institute. Peter A Dewees is a Natural Resource Management Specialist at the World Bank.