Farmers in the forest : economic development and marginal agriculture in northern Thailand /
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Honolulu :
Published for the East-West Center by the University Press of Hawaii,
©1978.
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Table of 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.