Author: Peter Traub
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural diversification
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Market-oriented Crop Diversification and Regional Development in Northeast Thailand
Author: Peter Traub
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural diversification
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural diversification
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
White Gold: The Commercialisation of Rice Farming in the Lower Mekong Basin
Author: Rob Cramb
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 9811509980
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 9811509980
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
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.
Abstracts on Tropical Agriculture
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 658
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 658
Book Description
CORMOSEA Bulletin
Author: Association for Asian Studies. Committee on Research Materials on Southeast Asia
Publisher:
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Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Farmers in the Forest
Author: Peter R. Kunstadter
Publisher: 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.
Publisher: 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.
Mundus
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
Indigenous Knowledge in Natural Resource Management
Author: Janpanit Surasin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Doctoral Dissertations on Asia
Author:
Publisher:
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Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Aanwinstenlijst Centrale Bibliotheek
Author: Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen. Centrale Bibliotheek
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
Development Monks in Northeast Thailand
Author: Phinit Lāpthanānon
Publisher: Apollo Books
ISBN: 9781920901394
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Co-published with Trans Pacific Press, Australia.
Publisher: Apollo Books
ISBN: 9781920901394
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Co-published with Trans Pacific Press, Australia.