This map Application is developed to support the Guidelines for Sustainable Development of Natural Rubber, which led by China Chamber of Commerce of Metals, Minerals & Chemicals Importers & Exporters with supports from World Agroforestry Centre, East and Center Asia Office (ICRAF). Asia produces >90% of global natural rubber primarily in monoculture for highest yield in limited growing areas. Rubber is largely harvested by smallholders in remote, undeveloped areas with limited access to markets, imposing substantial labor and opportunity costs. Typically, rubber plantations are introduced in high productivity areas, pushed onto marginal lands by industrial crops and uses and become marginally profitable for various reasons.
Credits:
Zhuangfang Yi is the developer of this application. She has PhD degree in Ecological Economics, and who is also a data scientist that loves to build applications for multi-stakeholders for better decision making. The geospatial analysis was supported by Dr. Charles H. Cannon, who is Director of Tree Science Center in The Morton Arboretum, IL, USA.