From Firestone to Michelin, a History of Rubber Cultivation in a Cocoa-Growing Country: Ghana

Owusu, E.A.; Ruf, François

doi:10.1007/978-94-017-7294-5_8

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“…Land tenure problems and exploitative contracts with growers have been reported, for example in northern Vietnam (Dao 2018; van Vliet et al 2012), southern Laos (Kenney-Lazar 2012), Cambodia Myanmar (Kenney-Lazar et al 2018). There are also concerns about rubber replacing food production, risking food security in Cote D'Ivoire and Ghana (Akmel 2018;Owusu and Ruf 2015), as well as concerns from nongovernmental organizations about labor rights in some Asian and African countries (Aidenvironment 2020). Agroforestry practices may improve biodiversity value of rubber plantations, whether complex 'jungle' systems that have very low rubber yields, or simple high-yielding systems that include additional crops or have high levels of natural vegetation understory (Clough et al 2016;Warren-Thomas et al 2020).…”

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Rubber needs to be included in deforestation-free commodity legislation

Warren‐Thomas

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Wang

et al. 2022

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Natural rubber production uses increasing amounts of land in the tropics and is linked to deforestation. There is debate as to whether current legislative proposals to reduce the import of deforestation-linked commodities into the EU, US and the UK will include rubber. Globally, sustained growth in demand is chiefly driven by tyre production, linked to rising freight and passenger transport flows. Yields of natural rubber remain static, meaning increased plantation area will be required: 2.7 to 5.3 million ha of additional harvested area could be needed by 2030 to meet demand. In order to prevent further deforestation and associated biodiversity loss, millions of smallholder growers producing the majority of rubber globally need support to increase production from existing plantations and close yield gaps, without undermining long-term sustainability through soil or water degradation. Rubber should also be included in legislative proposals to reduce deforestation in supply chains to avoid undermining the impact of these ambitious initiatives on forest loss globally.

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Rubber needs to be included in deforestation-free commodity legislation

Warren‐Thomas

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Wang

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The Contribution of Agroforestry to Biodiversity and Food Sovereignty in Ghana

Addai

2024

Advances in Agroforestry

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O papel da borracha (natural e sintética) para narrativas museológicas

Muniz,

Stoll,

Belichenko

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O artigo explora as coleções de borracha natural e sintética e as transformações ocorridas nas coleções do Musée de l’Homme desde 1938 em Paris, França. Ao longo da história o museu cedeu diversas coleções etnográficas e incorporou outras, mudando sua narrativa museológica, dando ênfase aà relação entre os seres humanos e o meio em que habitam. A análise de objetos de borracha destaca a substituição por materiais sintéticos, explorando complexidades socioambientais. Essas mudanças narram a interseção entre sociedade, fisicalidade e a indústria da borracha global, situando novas narrativas museológicas no antropoceno. O texto enfatiza a importância da metamuseologia, pedagogia museológica e reflexividade antropológica na compreensão crítica das práticas curatoriais e relações entre objetos, narrativas e identidades.

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From Firestone to Michelin, a History of Rubber Cultivation in a Cocoa-Growing Country: Ghana

Cited by 3 publications

References 1 publication

Rubber needs to be included in deforestation-free commodity legislation

Rubber needs to be included in deforestation-free commodity legislation

The Contribution of Agroforestry to Biodiversity and Food Sovereignty in Ghana

O papel da borracha (natural e sintética) para narrativas museológicas

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