Interventions for achieving sustainability in tropical forest and agricultural landscapes

Peter Newton, Arun Agrawal and Eva Karoline Wollenberg

No 110, CAPRi working papers from International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Abstract: The rapid expansion of commodity agriculture in tropical forest landscapes is a key driver of deforestation. To meet the growing demand from a more prosperous and expanding global population, it is imperative to develop sustainable commodity supply chains that support higher agricultural productivity, and that enable improved environmental, economic, and social outcomes. Interventions by community, market, and state actors can enhance the sustainability of supply chains by affecting where and how agricultural production occurs. Global datasets were used to document the trends in deforestation and commodity agriculture production and a framework was developed to facilitate analyses of commodity supply chains across multiple interventions, commodities, and countries.

Keywords: agriculture; global warming; tropical forests; deforestation; greenhouse gases; sustainability; emission (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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