Agriculture In Crisis: People, Commodities And Natural Resources In Indonesia, 1996-2000 People, Commodities And Natural Resources In Indonesia, 1996-2000

Indonesia's monetary and political crisis is examined here in relation to its impact on Indonesia's agricultural sector. The twelve essays that comprise this volume take a micro-economic approach and analysis relies on observed facts and first-hand data collected both before and after the country's crisis. This is a lively, well illustrated and instructive book. Indonesia's Crisis / Françoise Gérard And François Ruf -- International Market Responses To The Asian Crisis For Rubber, Cocoa And Coffee / Kees Burger And Hidde P. Smit -- Palm Oil And The Crisis : A Macro View / Tancrède Voituriez -- The Asian Crisis And Its Impact On The Indonesian Timber Sector / Marie-gabrielle Piketty And Alain Karsenty -- Cocoa Migrants From Boom To Bust / François Ruf And Yoddang -- Transmigrants And The Cocoa Windfall : Paradise Is Here, Not In Bali / François Ruf, Yoddang And Waris Ardhy -- From Migration To Motorisation : How Market Liberalisation Has Benefitted Coffee Farmers / François Ruf And Yoddang -- Rubber Cushions The Smallholder : No Crisis, No Windfall / Eric Penot And François Ruf -- The 1998 Food Crisis : Temporary Blip Or The End Of Food Security? / François Gérard, Isabelle Marty And Erwidodo -- From El Niño To Krismon : How Rice Farmers In Java Coped With A Multiple Crisis / Robin Bourgeois And Anne Gouyon -- It Never Rains But It Pours : Food Crop Farmers Barely Survive In Transmigration Areas / Patrice Levang [and Others] -- What Role For Agriculture In Indonesia's Recovery? / François Ruf And François Gérard. Edited By Françoise Gérard And François Ruf. Includes Bibliographical References. Indonesia's crisis was a multiple one, social and political as well as financial and economic.