Download or read book Conservation Farming Systems in the Uplands of Northern Thailand written by Sawatdee Boonchee and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Farming Systems Development on the Upland Areas of Thailand written by Sawatdee Boonchee and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Policies for Agricultural Sustainability in Northern Thailand written by Phrek Gypmantasiri and published by IIED. This book was released on 2001 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Farmers in the Forest written by Peter R. Kunstadter and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2019-03-31 with total page 599 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Farmers in the Forest, while using examples chiefly from northern Thailand, is concerned with complex problems found in all tropical countries. In these areas rapid population growth, increasing demands for food, and burgeoning international markets for forest products and other raw materials are associated with active competition for land and natural resources in upland areas. This book brings together studies by administrators, agronomists, anthropologists, forest ecologists, geographers and jurists, who describe a variety of swidden systems and their effect on soil, forest, society, and economy. They point to conflicts between traditional farming systems and modern legal and administrative constraints now being imposed, and they describe special and technological conditions that contribute to a marginal, stagnant upland economy, increasing socio-economic disparities with the lowlands, and the serious ecological consequences of these conditions. Several possible solutions are suggested to solve these problems.
Download or read book Conservation and Development in Northern Thailand written by Michel Bruneau and published by United Nations University Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Farming System Approach to Stable Agriculture in the Uplands of Northern Thailand written by P. M. Hoey and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sustainable Land Use and Rural Development in Southeast Asia Innovations and Policies for Mountainous Areas written by Holger L. Fröhlich and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-03 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is based on the findings of a long-term (2000-2014) interdisciplinary research project of the University of Hohenheim in collaboration with several universities in Thailand and Vietnam. Titled Sustainable Land Use and Rural Development in Mountainous Areas in Southeast Asia, or the Uplands Program, the project aims to contribute through agricultural research to the conservation of natural resources and the improvement of living conditions of the rural population in the mountainous regions of Southeast Asia. Having three objectives the book first aims to give an interdisciplinary account of the drivers, consequences and challenges of ongoing changes in mountainous areas of Southeast Asia. Second, the book describes how innovation processes can contribute to addressing these challenges and third, how knowledge creation to support change in policies and institutions can assist in sustainably develop mountain areas and people’s livelihoods.
Download or read book Losing Place in the Corn Mountains written by Daniel Bjorn Ahlquist and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the uplands of far northern Thailand, the landscape and the lives of those who live there are changing in tandem. On a landscape once characterized by an ever-shifting patchwork of forests, swidden fields and fallows, a stark duality now prevails. Virtually unbroken monocultures of hybrid maize blanket the hillsides in all directions, stopping only at the very edge of forests now protected by the laws and muscle of the Thai conservation state. In this dissertation, I draw on extensive participant observation and multi-sited ethnography centered on two Akha villages in Chiang Rai Province to excavate the processes and relationships behind the emergence of this bifurcated landscape, and to explore the ways in which upland land use practices, livelihoods and communities shape, and are shaped by, this changing landscape. I argue that the agrarian transformation underway in the uplands of northern Thailand today is both an outcome and a constituent element of an ongoing process of in situ displacement that is reconfiguring the relationship between farmers and the soil. It is a process with roots in the state's forest conservation project, which disabled the villages' rotational swidden systems and undermined local mechanisms for maintaining soil health. And it is a process that compels farmers to knowingly participate in an agricultural system that is literally and figuratively eroding the soil, as a sustaining foundation, from under their feet as inequalities widen in their communities and insecurity accumulates in their lives. This particular form of displacement tends to be overlooked by displacement scholars and policy makers because it manifests slowly over time, in banal but important ways that are difficult to see or connect to the disruptions informing them (Feldman & Geisler, 2012). Through multi-sited ethnographic methods and farmer-centered participant observation, and through an explicit focus on process and experience, this research seeks to address this important blind spot in the conservation, agrarian change, and displacement literatures.
Download or read book Shifting Cultivation in Thailand Laos and Vietnam written by International Institute for Environment & Development and published by IIED. This book was released on 1994 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Local Control of Land and Forest written by Anan Ganjanapan and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Farmers in the Forest written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Making the most of agricultural investment A survey of business models that provide opportunities for smallholders written by and published by IIED. This book was released on with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Economic Analysis of the Environmental Impacts of Development Projects written by John A. Dixon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has always been thought that some level of pollution and waste is unavoidable in development projects. But no one has made much effort to quantify and assess the extent of this sort of damage. In this book a group of analysts from the Asian Development Bank and from the East West Center propose a means of constructing useful economic evaluations of the impacts of development projects on the environments in which they are constructed. This study demands the systematic evaluation of all the intentional and unintentional consequences of development initiatives before they are determined upon. It is essential reading for development economists, analysts and bankers. Originally published in 1986
Download or read book Sustainable Land Use in Mountainous Regions of Southeast Asia written by Franz J. Heidhüs and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-01-08 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book creates a scientific base for the development and testing of sustainable production and land use systems in ecologically fragile and economically disadvantaged mountainous regions in Southeast Asia; to develop concepts for rural institutions that can reduce rural poverty and food insecurity, and improve livelihoods in mountainous regions in Southeast Asia; and to explore methods for analyzing complex ecosystems and their interactions with the socio-cultural, economic and institutional environment.
Download or read book Shifting Cultivation in Northern Thailand written by Terry Grandstaff and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Shifting Cultivation Policies written by Malcolm Cairns and published by CABI. This book was released on 2017-11-13 with total page 1117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shifting cultivation supports around 200 million people in the Asia-Pacific region alone. It is often regarded as a primitive and inefficient form of agriculture that destroys forests, causes soil erosion and robs lowland areas of water. These misconceptions and their policy implications need to be challenged. Swidden farming could support carbon sequestration and conservation of land, biodiversity and cultural heritage. This comprehensive analysis of past and present policy highlights successes and failures and emphasizes the importance of getting it right for the future. This book is enhanced with supplementary resources. The addendum chapters can be found at: www.cabi.org/openresources/91797
Download or read book Improving Food Security Through Sustainable Watershed Development written by Chakkrit Thongthap and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
