Download or read book Crop Protection Policy in Thailand written by Frauke Jungbluth and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Economic Analysis of Crop Protection in Citrus Production in Central Thailand written by Frauke Jungbluth and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pesticide Use in Thailand written by Phana Nakkharach and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pesticide policy has a substantial impact on health and environment. More than 2,000,000 people are suffering from exposures and use of pesticide each year. It is extremely dangerous for human beings to continue polluting our planet by using pesticides in agriculture. Green Revolution policies caused many changes in agricultural and food systems in Thailand. It has the 48th largest land area in the world but it now ranks fourth in the use of pesticides and it is referred to as a chemical dump. Even though the number of pesticide victims is most likely understated in official statistics, the workers having unsafe blood cholinesterase in high levels is strong evidence that pesticide policy in Thailand needs to change. This capstone is based on guidelines for SIT0́9s Policy Advocacy course-linked papers that present a product relevant to a campaign. In this case the product is a policy paper based on secondary literature and primary data collected by interviewing Thai NGO leaders. The paper discusses the history and level of pesticide use in Thailand; examines the impact of pesticides by using data from both Thailand and other nations; describes the government policies in health, agriculture, and environment, both those which have supported the growth of pesticide use and those which are supposed to deter the negative impacts of that use; and provides a brief overview of the sustainable agriculture movement in Thailand and its alternatives to pesticides. It concludes by identifying six problems that need to be solved if pesticide use is to be reduced or eliminated and, for each, provides specific recommendations for changing current policies or creating new ones in different ministries and local government. The paper is written to inform and support the work of advocates such as the Alternative Agriculture Network (AAN) of Thailand in their campaigns to reduce pesticide use in Thailand. The main targets of pesticide reduction policy reform are the National Health Commission, in accordance to the National Health Act B.E. 2550(2007) and the Committee on Agriculture and Cooperative Development Policy and Planning, in accordance to the Agricultural Economics Act of B.E. 2522.
Download or read book Approaches to Pesticide Policy Reform Building Consensus for Future Action written by Nipon Poapongsakorn and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Studies on IPM Policy in SE Asia written by Jan H. Oudejans and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Integrated Pest Management (IPM) became a widely supported approach in the control of pests and diseases in crops. This study describes IPM policy and implementation, a.o. by the FAO Inter-Country Programme for the Development and Application of IPM in Rice in S and SE Asia in Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand.
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 Report on Plant Protection in Major Food Crops in Thailand written by W. C. James and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Intellectual Property Law and Plant Protection written by Kamalesh Adhikari and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first to provide a detailed and critical account of the emergence, development, and implementation of plant variety protection laws in Asian countries. Each chapter undertakes a critical socio-legal analysis of one or more legal frameworks to understand, evaluate, and explore the concerns of diverse national stakeholders, the histories and dynamics of law-making, and the ways in which plant variety protection and seed certification laws interact with local agricultural systems. The book also assesses how Asian countries can capitalise on the ‘unused policy space’ in international agreements such as the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights and the International Convention for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants, as well as international obligations beyond these, such as those contained in the Convention on Biological Diversity and the Plant Treaty. It also highlights the many ways in which Asian experiences can offer new insights into the relationship between intellectual property and plants, and how relevant laws might be re-imagined in other regions, including Africa, Europe, and the Americas. By adding an important new perspective to the ongoing debate on intellectual property and plants, this book will appeal to academics, practitioners, and policy-makers engaged in work surrounding intellectual property laws, agricultural biodiversity, and plant breeding.
Download or read book Malaria mosquito resistance to agricultural insecticides Risk area mapping in Thailand written by Overgaard, Hans and published by IWMI. This book was released on 2006 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this study was to identify risk areas in Thailand where insecticide resistance in malaria mosquitoes might develop as a consequence of crop protection activities in agriculture. The study provides guidelines on how to delineate risk areas. A review of insecticide resistance in disease vectors and the potential role of agricultural insecticides is presented.
Download or read book The Impact of Pesticide Taxation on Pesticide Use and Income in Costa Rica s Coffee Production written by Stefan Agne and published by IICA Biblioteca Venezuela. This book was released on 2000 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book International Symposium on Biopesticides for Developing Countries written by and published by Bib. Orton IICA / CATIE. This book was released on with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Managing Global Genetic Resources written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1993-02-01 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anchor volume to the series Managing Global Genetic Resources examines the structure that underlies efforts to preserve genetic material, including the worldwide network of genetic collections; the role of biotechnology; and a host of issues that surround management and use. Among the topics explored are in situ versus ex situ conservation, management of very large collections of genetic material, problems of quarantine, the controversy over ownership or copyright of genetic material, and more.
Download or read book International Crop Protection Achievements Ambitions written by British Crop Protection Council and published by British Crop Protection. This book was released on 1999 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Systems approaches for agricultural development written by F.W.T Penning de Vries and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1993 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proceedings of the International Symposium on Systems Approaches for Agricultural Development, 2-6 December 1991, Bangkok, Thailand
Download or read book Thai Agriculture written by Lindsay Falvey and published by Kasetsart University. This book was released on 2000 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history, science, and social aspects of today’s Thai agriculture is traced from hunters and gatherers through agro-cities through State-religious Empires and immigrating Tai to produce a sustainable agriculture. The wet glutinous rice culture determined administrative structures in a pragmatic society which regularly produced a saleable surplus. Continuing today, these systems consolidated the importance of rice agriculture to national security and economic well-being, as Chinese and European influence benefited agribusiness and initiated the demand which would expand agriculture through population increase until accessible land was expended. As agriculture declined in relative financial importance, it continued to provide the benefits of employment, crisis resilience, self-sufficiency, rural social support, and cultural custody. Agricultural institutions evolved from a taxation and dispute resolution base to provide research, education, and technology transfer at levels below potential as they supported commercial agriculture funded by credit. Agribusiness expanded from the 1960s and small-holders were partly viewed as a past relic which agribusiness could modernise. Unique elements of Thai agriculture include: irrigation technologies; administrative structures based on water control; global leadership in many agricultural commodities; multinational agribusiness; negotiating approaches; potential for further increases from known technologies, and an open culture which has embraced new ideas. One of the world’s few major agricultural exporters, Thailand leads the world in rice, rubber, canned pineapple, and black tiger prawn production and export, the region in chicken meat export and several other commodities, and feeds more the four times its own population from less intensive agriculture than its neighbours. Poised to benefit from expansion in livestock demand, poverty reduction, and improved education, research, and legal and social systems, evident in the recent Asian financial crisis, will be considered with popular concern for socially sensitive alternatives for small-holder farmers to co-exist with commercial agriculture. Thailand will likely remain one of the world’s major agricultural countries in social, environmental and economic terms for the foreseeable future, as it addresses the continuing rural issues of poverty and inequity.
Download or read book Sustainability in Food and Water written by Kensuke Fukushi and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-09-02 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foodandwatersecurityissuesareregardedassinequanonif asocietywants to p- mote health, peace and prosperity. People who are well fed are also people with the means to changetheir situation. However,this is still an immense challengefor Asia especiallyintheglobalenvironmentalperspectiveinthe21stcentury. Peoplearound the globe will be facing a combination of problems concerning both environmental as well as social changes; therefore, the policy for future food and water security has to be upgraded in an integrated and holistic way. The need to put into persp- tive the ever-mounting body of new information on environmental security of food and water issues in Asia beyond the boundaries of separate disciplines provided the impetus for the development of this book. It is a compilation of selected ar- cles from two international symposiums entitled “Food and Water Sustainability in China 2007” and “Food and Water Sustainability in Asia 2008” which were held in Macau, China. Eminent scientists/researchers from different parts of Asia spoke at the symposium on topics such as the challenges in sustainable water resource m- agement, future projection of development strategies for sheries, increased yield of food grains by rainwater management in arid lands, multi-functional role of rice paddy area for food and water sustainability, the impact of biofuel production on food security, reclaimed wastewater for sustainable urban water use, heavy metal removal from contaminated soil and water, and adaptation strategies to cope with the climate change issues for food and water.
Download or read book White Gold The Commercialisation of Rice Farming in the Lower Mekong Basin written by Rob Cramb and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-01-03 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book is about understanding the processes involved in the transformation of smallholder rice farming in the Lower Mekong Basin from a low-yielding subsistence activity to one producing the surpluses needed for national self-sufficiency and a high-value export industry. For centuries, farmers in the Basin have regarded rice as “white gold”, reflecting its centrality to their food security and well-being. In the past four decades, rice has also become a commercial crop of great importance to Mekong farmers, augmenting but not replacing its role in securing their subsistence. This book is based on collaborative research to (a) compare the current situation and trajectories of rice farmers within and between different regions of the Lower Mekong, (b) explore the value chains linking rice farmers with new technologies and input and output markets within and across national borders, and (c) understand the changing role of government policies in facilitating the on-going evolution of commercial rice farming. An introductory section places the research in geographical and historical context. Four major sections deal in turn with studies of rice farming, value chains, and policies in Northeast Thailand, Central Laos, Southeastern Cambodia, and the Mekong Delta. The final section examines the implications for rice policy in the region as a whole.
