Author: Phrek GypmantasiriPublisher: IIED
ISBN: 9781904035039
Category : Agricultural industries
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Policies for Agricultural Sustainability in Northern Thailand
Author: Phrek GypmantasiriPublisher: IIED
ISBN: 9781904035039
Category : Agricultural industries
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Farmers in the Forest
Author: Peter R. KunstadterPublisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824881974
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 599
Book Description
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.
Sustainable Land Use and Rural Development in Southeast Asia: Innovations and Policies for Mountainous Areas
Author: Holger L. FröhlichPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 364233377X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
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.
Shifting Cultivation in Thailand, Laos and Vietnam
Author: Stephen BassPublisher: IIED
ISBN:
Category : Land use
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Policies for Agricultural Sustainability in Kenya
Author: J. K. NyoroPublisher: IIED
ISBN: 9781843690009
Category : Agricultural industries
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Shifting Cultivation in Northern Thailand
Author: Terry GrandstaffPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultura
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Shifting Cultivation Policies
Author: Malcolm CairnsPublisher: CABI
ISBN: 1786391791
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1115
Book Description
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
Counting the Costs
Author: Jonathan RiggPublisher: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
ISBN: 9813055081
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Written by an international panel of specialists on Thailand who share a common concern for the environment, this volume examines the causes and consequences of environment change both in the countryside and the urban areas of the Kingdom. The papers, however, in no sense reflect a common view; the authors embrace contrasting environmental ideologies in discussing a wide range of concerns. These include the role of Buddhism and tourism in promoting sustainable development, environmental systems of thought and action, the practicalities of water pollution control in Bangkok and the Gulf of Thailand, and the changing bases of life and livelihood among the hill peoples of the North. The environment as an issue of concern is now important phase of assimilation, interpretation, prescription and action. The papers in this volume reflect this change.
Decisions Against Nature
Author: Michael M. CalavanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
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