From Jungle Rubber to Rubber Agroforestry Systems : History of Rubber Agroforestry Practices in the World

• Autore: Penot Éric
• Pubblicazione: Versailles : , : Quae, , 2024; ©2025
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (331 pages)
• Disciplina: 678.2
• Soggetto topico: Agroforestry; Rubber
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Rubber in the world -- The concept of agroforestry and agroforestry systems. -- Chapter 1. Definition and history of RAS -- Rubber in Southeast Asia from 1900 to 2023 -- The development of clonal rubber-based agroforestry plantations: a new challenge -- Chapter 2. Rationale for RAS and impact of agroforestry systems -- The need for improved rubber agroforestry systems (RAS) -- Main results of RAS -- Farmers in West Kalimantan and RAS -- Diversification of perennial crops to offset market uncertainties in West Kalimantan -- RAS case studies in southern Thailand -- Rubber versus other alternatives: what role for RAS? -- Changes in RAS patterns in West Kalimantan from 1994 to 2019 -- Chapter 3. RAS in the rubber world: current agroforestry practices in various countries -- Origin and development of RAS -- The key impact of shade -- The situation in South and South East Asia -- The situation in Africa -- The situation in South and Central America -- Double-spacing systems: an alternative system for full-sun species associated with rubber -- Timber species -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4. Expectations of RAS, impacts and contribution to current's main challenges in 2024 -- Agroforest cropping systems provide miscellaneous goods and services -- Impact on soils -- Adaptation to climate change -- Environmental concerns and externalities -- Interest of certification -- Rubber and oil palm -- Conclusion -- Conclusion and perspectives for the future -- Markets trigger agroforestry: the importance of understanding how income is generated in agroforestry -- Rubber production and sustainability -- A new political environment that accounts for environmental concerns -- Some innovative systems for the future -- The final word -- Bibliography -- Various sources of information. ; Photo gallery -- List of abbreviations -- Appendices -- List of authors.
• Sommario/riassunto: Rubber Agroforestry Systems (RAS) have been developed by local farmers in Southeast Asia initially through the development of jungle rubber. Jungle rubber is a very practical and easy way to develop at very low cost non clonal rubber plantations with forest regrowth, being then the main smallholding rubber cropping system until the 1950s. Later on, for political reasons, clonal plantations with better productivity were developed though national planting programs in Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia. Today, most of the jungle rubber has disappeared or is not anymore tapped, replaced by monoclonal plantation. However, in some countries, some local farmers continue to adopt or develop agroforestry practices, basically associating rubber with various number and types of plants and trees in both immature and mature period, in order to increase global productivity at plot level and diversify sources of incomes to increase farms' resilience. In this book, we explain what has been the historical and societal conditions for RAS to develop in countries like Thailand and Indonesia and why there is a future for RAS in the current world with global economic uncertainty. The objective is to provide evidence of RAS interest and constraints in order to develop such systems in other countries. The book integrates various sources from the editor and associated researchers and students, written since 1994 and updated in 2024.
• Titolo autorizzato: From Jungle Rubber to Rubber Agroforestry Systems
• ISBN: 9782759239368; 2759239365
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910985889903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Hors Collection