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Category : Agricultural innovations
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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Development Trends in Vietnam's Northern Mountain Region (book for Reference): Overview and analysis
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Category : Agricultural innovations
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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Development Trends in Vietnam's Northern Mountain Region (book for Reference): Case studies and lessons from Asia
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Category : Agricultural innovations
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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Voices from the Forest
Author: Malcolm CairnsPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 113652228X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 853
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This handbook of locally based agricultural practices brings together the best of science and farmer experimentation, vividly illustrating the enormous diversity of shifting cultivation systems as well as the power of human ingenuity. Environmentalists have tended to disparage shifting cultivation (sometimes called 'swidden cultivation' or 'slash-and-burn agriculture') as unsustainable due to its supposed role in deforestation and land degradation. However, a growing body of evidence indicates that such indigenous practices, as they have evolved over time, can be highly adaptive to land and ecology. In contrast, 'scientific' agricultural solutions imposed from outside can be far more damaging to the environment. Moreover, these external solutions often fail to recognize the extent to which an agricultural system supports a way of life along with a society's food needs. They do not recognize the degree to which the sustainability of a culture is intimately associated with the sustainability and continuity of its agricultural system. Unprecedented in ambition and scope, Voices from the Forest focuses on successful agricultural strategies of upland farmers. More than 100 scholars from 19 countries--including agricultural economists, ecologists, and anthropologists--collaborated in the analysis of different fallow management typologies, working in conjunction with hundreds of indigenous farmers of different cultures and a broad range of climates, crops, and soil conditions. By sharing this knowledge--and combining it with new scientific and technical advances--the authors hope to make indigenous practices and experience more widely accessible and better understood, not only by researchers and development practitioners, but by other communities of farmers around the world.
The New Way
Author: Tâm T. T. NgôPublisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295806656
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
In the mid-1980s, a radio program with a compelling spiritual message was accidentally received by listeners in Vietnam’s remote northern highlands. The Protestant evangelical communication had been created in the Hmong language by the Far East Broadcasting Company specifically for war refugees in Laos. The Vietnamese Hmong related the content to their traditional expectation of salvation by a Hmong messiah-king who would lead them out of subjugation, and they appropriated the evangelical message for themselves. Today, the New Way (Kev Cai Tshiab) has some three hundred thousand followers in Vietnam. Tam T. T. Ngo reveals the complex politics of religion and ethnic relations in contemporary Vietnam and illuminates the dynamic interplay between local and global forces, socialist and postsocialist state building, cold war and post–cold war antagonisms, Hmong transnationalism, and U.S.-led evangelical expansionism.
Poverty Alleviation and Forests in Vietnam
Author: William D. SunderlinPublisher: CIFOR
ISBN: 9793361573
Category : Afforestation
Languages : en
Pages : 84
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Postwar Vietnam
Author: Hy V. LuongPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780847698653
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
This historically grounded examination of the dynamics of contemporary society in Vietnam, including cultural, political and economic dimensions, focuses on dynamic tensions both within society and among societal forces, the state, and global capital.
Farming with Fire and Water
Author: Đức Viên Trà̂nPublisher: Horwood Publishing
ISBN: 9781920901295
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
This volume offers the first detailed description of 'composite swiddening, ' a traditional Southeast Asian upland agricultural system that combines shifting cultivation fields on the hillsides with irrigated paddy fields in the valleys. The book is a product of research over a 15-year period by natural and social scientists in Vietnam's Tat Hamlet, a Da Bac Tay ethnic minority community, and it challenges the conventional belief that shifting cultivation inevitably causes deforestation. It describes this complex agroecosystem in terms of its multiple individual components, structure, functioning, and sustainability; social and economic dimensions; adaptation to on-going demographic, economic, environmental, and policy changes; and wider use elsewhere in Vietnam's northern mountains. It will be of interest to Southeast Asian area studies specialists, agricultural ecologists, ethnologists, and upland development policymakers
Opening Up Knowledge Production Through Participatory Research?
Author: Jakob Rupert FriederichsenPublisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9783631588420
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Hohenheim, 2008.
Watershed Governance
Author: Blake D. RatnerPublisher: World Resources Inst
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Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 52
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An examination of the challenges of managing the upper watersheds of mainland South East Asia, taking local livelihoods and resource competition as its point of departure. It presents the factors of change that drive the economic, environmental and social transformations of the area.
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