Small-Scale Rubber Planting for Enhancement of People's Livelihoods: A Comparative Study in Three South Asian Countries

Nath, Tapan Kumar; Inoue, Morihiro; Zoysa, Mangala De

doi:10.1080/08941920.2013.779342

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“…Our finding that rubber-specialized households in Manlin are highly affected by fluctuating commodity prices also corroborates findings that rubber farming has generally reduced income diversification in Xishuangbanna [8,16,33,34]. How the local people respond to the drop in rubber prices may be contingent on a number of aspects.…”

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confidence: 83%

Navigating between Tea and Rubber in Xishuangbanna, China: When New Crops Fail and Old Ones Work

Slothuus

Schmidt‐Vogt

Mertz

2020

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Following the massive expansion of rubber plantations in China, considerable research has been conducted on the impact of these landscape changes. The general consensus is that there have been negative impacts on the environment and positive impacts on local economies. However, since rubber prices dropped after 2011, the economic benefit to the local people is challenged and the impact on the local people and communities remains unclear. Using a mix of qualitative and quantitative methods, this longitudinal study investigates how the drop in rubber prices has affected a local community and the local people in Manlin, Xishuangbanna, China. It investigates local coping strategies and the importance of alternative income sources and shows how differentiated access to alternative lands creates increased economic inequality within the village when prices fluctuate. Three general coping strategies were identified amongst local rubber farmers: doing business as usual, changing rubber management practices, and stopping- or decreasing tapping frequency. Differences in coping strategies are linked to factors including access to alternative income sources and rubber perceptions. Moreover, households with access to tea land were found to have experienced negligible impacts of decreasing rubber prices as income from tea has increased more than income from rubber has decreased, leading to increasing intra-village economic inequality. We conclude that while this is a clear case of how income diversification is important for reducing livelihood vulnerability, it also shows that the large focus on rubber farming has created benefits in terms of improved infrastructure and connectivity that has helped expand the market for tea as well.

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Navigating between Tea and Rubber in Xishuangbanna, China: When New Crops Fail and Old Ones Work

Slothuus

Schmidt‐Vogt

Mertz

2020

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“…There are other possibilities for incorporating agroforestry systems, with the potential for a range of benefits including increased household food security and wider ecosystem services ( Cheatham et al, 2009 ; Jose, 2009 ; Swift, Izac & van Noordwijk, 2004 ). For example, there is the potential to develop longer-term rubber intercropping systems, to buffer fluctuating rubber prices ( Cramb et al, 2009 ; Nath, Inoue & De Zoysa, 2013 ), by altering rubber tree planting arrangements to allow greater resource availability for other crops ( Rodrigo, Silva & Munasinghe, 2004 ), depending on the stage of development of the local systems ( Barlow, 1997 ; Dressler & Pulhin, 2010 ) and the availability of other options for income ( Dressler & Fabinyi, 2011 ; Langenberger et al, in press ; Neyra-Cabatac, Pulhin & Cabanilla, 2012 ). In such a system, a managed understory can be integrated in place of additional trees.…”

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Cropping system diversification for food production in Mindanao rubber plantations: a rice cultivar mixture and rice intercropped with mungbean

Hondrade

Zheng

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Including food production in non-food systems, such as rubber plantations and biofuel or bioenergy crops, may contribute to household food security. We evaluated the potential for planting rice, mungbean, rice cultivar mixtures, and rice intercropped with mungbean in young rubber plantations in experiments in the Arakan Valley of Mindanao in the Philippines. Rice mixtures consisted of two- or three-row strips of cultivar Dinorado, a cultivar with higher value but lower yield, and high-yielding cultivar UPL Ri-5. Rice and mungbean intercropping treatments consisted of different combinations of two- or three-row strips of rice and mungbean. We used generalized linear mixed models to evaluate the yield of each crop alone and in the mixture or intercropping treatments. We also evaluated a land equivalent ratio for yield, along with weed biomass (where Ageratum conyzoides was particularly abundant), the severity of disease caused by Magnaporthe oryzae and Cochliobolus miyabeanus, and rice bug (Leptocorisa acuta) abundance. We analyzed the yield ranking of each cropping system across site-year combinations to determine mean relative performance and yield stability. When weighted by their relative economic value, UPL Ri-5 had the highest mean performance, but with decreasing performance in low-yielding environments. A rice and mungbean intercropping system had the second highest performance, tied with high-value Dinorado but without decreasing relative performance in low-yielding environments. Rice and mungbean intercropped with rubber have been adopted by farmers in the Arakan Valley.

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“…Manuscript to be reviewed There are other possibilities for incorporating agroforestry systems, with the potential for a range of benefits including increased household food security and wider ecosystem services (Cheatham et al 2009;Jose 2009;Swift et al 2004). For example, there is the potential to develop longer-term rubber intercropping systems, to buffer fluctuating rubber prices (Cramb et al 2009;Nath et al 2013), by altering rubber tree planting arrangements to allow greater resource availability for other crops (Rodrigo et al 2004), depending on the stage of development of the local systems (Barlow 1997;Dressler & Pulhin 2010) and the availability of other options for income (Dressler & Fabinyi 2011;Langenberger et al 2016;Neyra-Cabatac et al 2012). In such a system, a managed understory can be integrated in place of additional trees.…”

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confidence: 99%

Peer Review #2 of "Cropping system diversification for food production in Mindanao rubber plantations: a rice cultivar mixture and rice intercropped with mungbean (v0.1)"

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2017

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Including food production in non-food systems, such as rubber plantations and biofuel or bioenergy crops, may contribute to household food security. We evaluated the potential for planting rice, mungbean, rice cultivar mixtures, and rice intercropped with mungbean in young rubber plantations in experiments in the Arakan Valley of Mindanao in the Philippines. Rice mixtures consisted of two-or three-row strips of cultivar Dinorado, a cultivar with higher value but lower yield, and high-yielding cultivar UPL Ri-5. Rice and mungbean intercropping treatments consisted of different combinations of two-or threerow strips of rice and mungbean. We used generalized linear mixed models to evaluate the yield of each crop alone and in the mixture or intercropping treatments. We also evaluated a land equivalent ratio for yield, along with weed biomass (where Ageratum conyzoides was particularly abundant), the severity of disease caused by Magnaporthe oryzae and Cochliobolus miyabeanus, and rice bug (Leptocorisa acuta) abundance. We analyzed the yield ranking of each cropping system across site-year combinations to determine mean relative performance and yield stability. When weighted by their relative economic value, UPL Ri-5 had the highest mean performance, but with decreasing performance in lowyielding environments. A rice and mungbean intercropping system had the second highest performance, tied with high-value Dinorado but without decreasing performance in lowyielding environments. Rice and mungbean intercropped with rubber have been adopted by farmers in the Arakan Valley.

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Small-Scale Rubber Planting for Enhancement of People's Livelihoods: A Comparative Study in Three South Asian Countries

Cited by 18 publications

References 18 publications

Navigating between Tea and Rubber in Xishuangbanna, China: When New Crops Fail and Old Ones Work

Navigating between Tea and Rubber in Xishuangbanna, China: When New Crops Fail and Old Ones Work

Cropping system diversification for food production in Mindanao rubber plantations: a rice cultivar mixture and rice intercropped with mungbean

Peer Review #2 of "Cropping system diversification for food production in Mindanao rubber plantations: a rice cultivar mixture and rice intercropped with mungbean (v0.1)"

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