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Title Soil conservation technologies for smallholder farming systems in the Philippines Uplands : a socioeconomic evaluation / edited by R. A. Cramb
Published Canberra, ACT : ACIAR, 2000

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Description 228 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Series ACIAR monograph series ; No. 78
ACIAR monograph series ; No. 78
Contents Ch. 1. Introduction / R.A. Cramb and G.C. Saguiguit -- ch. 2. Research framework / R.A. Cramb -- ch. 3. Agricultural land degradation in the Philippine uplands: an overview / R.A. Cramb -- ch. 4. Profiles of the case study sites / R.A. Cramb ... [et al.] -- ch. 5. Characteristics and implementation of soil conservation technologies in the case study sites / J.N.M. Garcia ... [et al.] -- ch. 6. Adoption of soil conservation technologies in the case study sites / R.A. Cramb ... [et al.] -- ch. 7. Approaches to the promotion of soil conservation in the case study sites / R.V. Gerits ... [et al.] -- ch. 8. Bioeconomic modelling of hedgerow intercropping / R.A. Nelson and R.A. Cramb -- ch. 9. Soil conservation adoption and yield risk: evidence from upland farms in Bansalan / G.E. Shively -- ch. 10. Analysis of farmer decisions to adopt soil conservation technology in Argao / Y.T. Garcia -- ch. 11. A socioeconomic analysis of adoption of soil conservation practices by upland farmers in Cebu City and Claveria / Ma. L.A. Lapar and S. Pandey -- ch. 12. Evaluation of soil conservation technologies: a summing up / R.A. Cramb.s and repo
Summary Human-induced soil erosion and consequent degradation of agricultural land in the Philippines upland has, during the past three decades, come to be recognised as a major environmental and socioeconomic problem. The SEARCA-UQ Uplands Research Project (ACIAR Project 1992/011) was developed in response to a need to improve the flow of appropriate soil conservation technologies to upland farmers. The project adopted a farming systems framework for technology assessment, that is, one which takes as its principal reference the goals and circumstances of farmers in specific biophysical and socioeconomic environments. The assumption underlying this approach is that the farmers are intentionally rational in their choice of technology. Only when new technology is adapted to farmers' local conditions is it fully developed and adoptable. This monograph summarieses the findings of the project. Reviews the overall approach used for the evaluation of soil conservation technologies, sets the scene by using a political ecology framework to examine the macro-level processes behind the problem of soil erosion in the Philippine uplands and reports on the case studies of upland development projects, with particular emphasis on the promotion, adoption, adaption and impacts of soil conservation technologies. The monograph summarises the results of the bioeconomic modelling of farmer investment in the main form of soil conservation technology, namely hedgerow intercropping and reports on two specific adoption studies undertaken in conjunction with the project and presents the results of a related adoption study undertaken by the staff of the International Rice Research Institute.nts to adoption of
Notes ANALYTIC
Bibliography Includes bibliography: pages 213-225
Notes Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research
Subject Farms, Small -- Philippines -- Case studies.
Soil conservation projects -- Philippines.
Soil conservation -- Economic aspects -- Philippines.
Soil conservation -- Social aspects -- Philippines.
Soil conservation -- Philippines.
Soil conservation -- Philippines -- Case studies.
Soil erosion -- Philippines.
Genre/Form Case studies.
Author Cramb, R. A. (Rob A.), 1951-
Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research.
ISBN 0642456801
064245681X