UPLAND AGRICULTURE Thailand
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Seeing farmers for the trees: Community forestry and the arborealisation of agriculture in northern Thailand
The campaign for community forestry in upland areas of northern Thailand reflects an ‘arborealised’ perspective on upland agriculture. Arborealisation – which I define as the process whereby upland livelihoods are recast as forest livelihoods – is evident in the main elements of NGO and academic advocacy for the resource rights of upland peoples. As a result of this arborealised perspective, se...
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Recent Thai research on Karen ethnicity and resource management places signi cant emphasis on rotational shifting cultivation (rai mun wian). A broad consensus has emerged that this is a relatively sustainable, ecologically friendly and subsistence-oriented form of agriculture that is threatened by the recent intrusion of the state and the market. This paper argues that the portrayals encompas...
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Cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) is currently the most important upland crop of Cambodia, but information on yield variations and causal factors which is important for efficiently targeting efforts to increase production is still lacking. The objectives of this study were to determine the yield variations and causal factors for cassava production in Kampong Cham province in Cambodia. Fort...
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Under the National Poverty Eradication Programme (NPEP) overall visions for agriculture, integrated watershed management and forestry seek to coordinate sectors in facilitating a holistic transformation of upland livelihoods to reduce rural poverty and conserve natural resources. Operational policies, however, still centre on stabilising shifting cultivation, eliminating opium production, land ...
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How do farmers in poor, remote upper-watershed areas of developing countries respond to price signals? Until relatively recently, it was widely assumed that most upland agriculture was primarily for subsistence. If correct, this has important implications for the design of upland development programs, as subsistence farmers, by definition, are beyond the reach of economic policies, and programs...
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تاریخ انتشار 2011