Agriculture in the humid tropics

Reference Type Book Chapter
Year of Publication
1982
Contributors Author: U.S. National Research Council, Committee on Selected Biological Problems in the Humid Tropics
Book Title
Ecological aspects of development in the humid tropics
Pagination
93-156
Date Published
01/1982
Publisher
National Academy Press
City
Washington, DC
Language
English
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ISBN
0-309-03235-0
Call Number
QH84.5.N373 1982
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Abstract

Focused on ecological considerations in tropical areas, this chapter covers the following topics:

  • Agriculture as rearrangement of the ecosystem;
  • Productivity of tropical agricultural systems;
  • Constraints to shifting cultivation;
  • Cultivated land as an ecosystem;
  • Humid tropical agriculture as vegeculture/polyculture;
  • Animal products;
  • Export crops;
  • Linkages between tropical and temperate zones;
  • Nutrition in the humid tropics;
  • Stability of tropical agricultural systems;
  • Improving plants of the humid tropics;
  • Research needs; and
  • Agriculture and conservation.
Notes
Chapter 5
URL
https://doi.org/10.17226/19533