Browsing by Author "Ffolliott, Peter F."

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Agroforestry Policies Contribute to Sustainable Land Use
(1995) Brooks, Kenneth N.; Gregersen, Hans M.; Ffolliott, Peter F.
"Agroforestry includes all practices that deliberately combine trees and shrubs with agricultural crops and/or livestock over time or space. Most countries have practiced agroforestry for centuries. In many parts of the developing world, it is an important form of land use and a major contributor to land use sustainability. "Yet, because agroforestry is land use between forestry and agriculture, policymakers do not give it the attention it deserves. Here we focus on how agroforestry adds to the sustainable use of many land areas, particularly monocropping of marginal soils and hilly areas. We suggest that policy can encourage agroforestry to improve existing unsustainable land use practices. Readers interested in more information should check other sources. "We want to make three initial points concerning sustainability: 1. We define sustainable land use as that which produces goods and services while continuing to protect the natural resource base. 2. The goal is to maintain sustainable production of goods and services, not to continue given land-use practices. 3. Since we cannot know whether a land use is sustainable far into the future, the best method is to avoid uses that are clearly unsustainable. For example, land use that promotes excessive soil erosion is obviously not sustainable."
Policies for Sustainable Development: The Roles of Watershed Management
(1994) Brooks, Kenneth N.; Ffolliott, Peter F.; Gergersen, Hans M.; Easter, K. William
"The basic points made in this policy brief are that: * Watershed management and upland conservation provide a means to achieve sustainable land and water resource management. * Poor management of natural resources on watersheds is a major cause of land and water degradation and rural poverty in the world today. * The main cause of such mismanagement is lack of appropriate policies that encourage application of known watershed management principles and practices, including both structural and vegetation management options. * Because watershed boundaries seldom coincide with political boundaries, the environmental point of view that favors watershed boundaries often conflicts with the political point of view that logically favors political boundaries. * The main policy challenge is to move toward greater integration of the two points of view. * This involves establishing and implementing policies so that people become responsible for the impacts of their actions on others outside their normal decision-making context (internalize the externalities, as economists say). * We show several ways to internalize the externalities."