Title Farmers in the forest : economic development and marginal agriculture in northern Thailand / edited by Peter Kunstadter, E.C. Chapman, Sanga Sabhasri

Published Honolulu : Published for the East-West Center by the University Press of Hawaii, ©1978

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 402 pages) : illustrations Contents Part I. Introduction -- Problems of shifting cultivation and economic development in Northern Thailand / Peter Kunstadter and E.C. Chapman -- The environment of Northern Thailand / Tem Smitinand, Sanga Sabhasri and Peter Kunstadter -- Part II. Institutional constraints on forest farming -- Introduction / Peter Kunstadter -- Legal aspects of land occupation and development / Sophon Ratanakhon -- Forest policy in Northern Thailand / Thiem Komkris -- Part III. Subsistence swidden systems -- Introduction ; Subsistence agricultural economies of Lua' and Karen hill farmers, Mae Sariang District, Northwestern Thailand / Peter Kunstadter -- Soil fertility aspects of the Lua' Forest fallow system of shifting cultivation / Paul J. Zinke, Sanga Sabhasri and Peter Kundstadter -- Effects of forest fallow cultivation on forest production and soil / Sanga Sabhasri -- Declining production among sedentary swidden cultivators: the case of the Pwo Karen / Peter Hinton -- Part IV. Commercially oriented forest farming systems -- Introduction / Peter Kunstadter -- Opium culture in Northern Thailand: social and ecological dilemmas / Sanga Sabhasri -- Ecological relationships in a Hmong (Meo) economy / F.G.B. Keen -- Shifting cultivation and economic development in the lowlands of Northern Thailand / E.C. Chapman -- Soil fertility problems in development of annual cropping on swiddened lowland terrain in Northern Thailand / J.L. Charley and J.W. McGarity -- The fermented tea (Miang) economy of Northern Thailand / F.G.B. Keen -- Swidden cultivation in Southeast Asia: historical, ecological, and economic perspectives / Karl J. Pelzer -- Part V. Conclusion -- Alternatives for the development of upland areas / Peter Kunstadter Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-392) and index Notes Print version record Subject Shifting cultivation -- Thailand, Northern Hill farming -- Thailand, Northern Land use, Rural -- Thailand, Northern Rural development -- Thailand, Northern Shifting cultivation -- Thailand Hill farming -- Thailand Land use, Rural -- Thailand Rural development -- Thailand Hill farming Land use, Rural Rural development Shifting cultivation Agrarische ontwikkeling. Landgebruik. Wisselbouw. Thailand Northern Thailand Form Electronic book Author Kunstadter, Peter Chapman, E. C Sanga Sabhasri Mahāwitthayālai Chīang Mai. ISBN 9780824881979 0824881974

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