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The objective of this chapter is to again look at the trilogy of government policy and private initiatives; ecological change; and markets and imitation, and to expand the concept of differential rent, with the ‘natural-fertility’ rent (rubber today has a virtual monopoly on the colonization of degraded fallows in Côte d’Ivoire) and the ‘capitalization rent’ (the tree breeding resulted in tripling the yield per hectare and of labour productivity). The approach is based on the comparison of two regional dynamics
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For a definition of UMCI, see Footnote 3 in the Chap. 1.
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As an example: ‘In early 1955, drawing on its extensive experience of cultivating rubber in Vietnam and Cambodia and at the initiative of the Indochina Rubber Plantation Company (SIPH), several French companies explored Côte d’Ivoire in order to identify suitable sites for rubber cultivation. The first nurseries were set up in 1955 using three million seeds airlifted from Vietnam. These nurseries would provide the saplings to set up the first rubber plantations of SAPH.’ This extract from Wikipedia (French) corroborates the firsthand accounts of former SIPH executives collected by B. Losch.
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In March 1965, the Institut français d’organisation et productivité (IFO) published a study titled ‘Étude sur l’implantation éventuelle d’une industrie du caoutchouc en Côte d’Ivoire’ (Dollfus et al. 1965).
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Ruf, F., Chambon, B., Kongmanee, C. (2015). Rubber: Natural Rent, Capitalization Rent? West-Central Côte d’Ivoire and Southern Thailand. In: Ruf, F., Schroth, G. (eds) Economics and Ecology of Diversification. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-7294-5_7
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