Agricultural Development In The Mekong Basin

Author : Resources for the Future
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781317366232

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Agricultural Development in the Mekong Basin by Resources for the Future Pdf

Originally written for the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Resources for the future published this report in 1971 believing it would be of interest to more general readers. Resources for the Future draws on its past experience of resource utilization, development and economics to comment on issues faced by the Mekong Basin River for agricultural development such as the demand-supply conditions for improved agriculture, the limitations imposed by physical and human resource conditions and measures needed to modernize their agricultural methods. This title will be of interest to students of Environmental and Economic studies.

Author : Resources for the Future,World Bank
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : OCLC:52023060

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Agricultural Development in the Mekong Basin by Resources for the Future,World Bank Pdf

Author : Resources for the Future
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1138947318

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Agricultural Development in the Mekong Basin by Resources for the Future Pdf

Originally written for the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Resources for the future published this report in 1971 believing it would be of interest to more general readers. Resources for the Future draws on its past experience of resource utilization, development and economics to comment on issues faced by the Mekong Basin River for agricultural development such as the demand-supply conditions for improved agriculture, the limitations imposed by physical and human resource conditions and measures needed to modernize their agricultural methods. This title will be of interest to students of Environmental and Economic studies.

Author : Willem Van Liere
Publisher : IUCN
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 2831708915

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Agriculture in the lower Mekong basin by Willem Van Liere Pdf

Author : Chamlong Tohtong
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1974*
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:32221316

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Agricultural Development and Policies in the Mekong Basin by Chamlong Tohtong Pdf

Author : Mart A. Stewart,Peter A. Coclanis
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789400709348

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Environmental Change and Agricultural Sustainability in the Mekong Delta by Mart A. Stewart,Peter A. Coclanis Pdf

The Mekong Delta of Vietnam is one of the most productive agricultural areas in the world. The Mekong River fans out over an area of about 40,000 sq kilometers and over the course of many millennia has produced a region of fertile alluvial soils and constant flows of energy. Today about a fourth of the Delta is under rice cultivation, making this area one of the premier rice granaries in the world. The Delta has always proven a difficult environment to manipulate, however, and because of population pressures, increasing acidification of soils, and changes in the Mekong’s flow, environmental problems have intensified. The changing way in which the region has been linked to larger flows of commodities and capital over time has also had an impact on the region: For example, its re-emergence in recent decades as a major rice-exporting area has linked it inextricably to global markets and their vicissitudes. And most recently, the potential for sea level increases because of global warming has added a new threat. Because most of the region is on average only a few meters above sea level and because any increase of sea level will change the complex relationship between tides and down-river water flow, the Mekong Delta is one of the areas in the world most vulnerable to the effects of climate change. How governmental policy and resident populations have in the past and will in coming decades adapt to climate change as well as several other emerging or ongoing environmental and economic problems is the focus of this collection.

Author : Tuyet L. Cosslett,Patrick D. Cosslett
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783319021980

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Water Resources and Food Security in the Vietnam Mekong Delta by Tuyet L. Cosslett,Patrick D. Cosslett Pdf

The Mekong River has been a main source of conquest, conflict, and cooperation in the Southeast Asian region. Much has been written on the vital and critical importance of the Mekong River fresh water to the sustainable economic development of the Mekong Delta. This book selects the Mekong Delta as a case study of regional cooperation for water and food security for not only for Vietnam but also for the world in a new century of global economy. It focuses not only on the Mekong Delta as an integral part of the River but also on Can Tho City and its 12 provinces that produce over 50 percent of the country’s rice output and 60 percent of total fishery output. The book takes a micro approach to examine how each province is adapting to the twin threats of mainstream dams construction and climate change, reducing fresh water flows and increasing saline infusions on its present and future economy. Finally, it reviews the roles of international institutional arrangements, namely the Mekong Committee and the Mekong River Commission, in promoting regional cooperation among the riparian states for political and economic development of the Mekong Delta.

Author : Resources for the Future Staff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0835752690

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Agricultural Development in the Mekong Basin by Resources for the Future Staff Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : 9811509999

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WHITE GOLD by Anonim Pdf

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. Rob Cramb is Honorary Professor of Agricultural Development in the School of Agriculture and Food Sciences at The University of Queensland, Australia. He has taught, researched, and consulted on agricultural and rural development in Southeast Asia for over forty years. His previous books include Land and Longhouse: Agrarian Change in the Uplands of Sarawak and (with John McCarthy) The Oil Palm Complex: Smallholders, Agribusiness and the State in Indonesia and Malaysia.

Author : Rob Cramb
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789811509988

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White Gold: The Commercialisation of Rice Farming in the Lower Mekong Basin by Rob Cramb Pdf

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.

Author : Joel Martin Halpern,James A. Hafner,Walter Haney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Education
ISBN : STANFORD:36105120069310

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Mekong Basin Development by Joel Martin Halpern,James A. Hafner,Walter Haney Pdf

Annotated bibliography on the economic development of the Mekong Valley in the Lao PDR and Thailand.

Author : Isidro S. Macaspac
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Asia
ISBN : STANFORD:36105120104901

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Economic and Social Research for Lower Mekong Basin Development by Isidro S. Macaspac Pdf

Author : Tuyet L. Cosslett,Patrick D. Cosslett
Publisher : Springer
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789811056130

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Sustainable Development of Rice and Water Resources in Mainland Southeast Asia and Mekong River Basin by Tuyet L. Cosslett,Patrick D. Cosslett Pdf

This book highlights rice and water resources security in Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam – countries that share the international Mekong River, which is a source of both regional cooperation and conflict. It discusses the topography, population, economy, rice production and rice trade of these four riparian countries, and analyses the impacts of climate change, El Nino and La Nina, and the construction of Mekong mainstream dams on water resources and rice productivity. Further, this publication assesses the role of the Mekong River Commission, a river basin organization responsible for the sustainable development and water resource management of the Mekong, and examines regional cooperation frameworks such as the Lower Mekong Initiative, and the Mekong-Japan Summit. The book then explores the emerging role of China in promoting the Lancang-Mekong cooperation between China and Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam in developing the Mekong River Basin, which could determine the future water and rice security of the region.

Author : Christopher Edmonds
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 31 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2008-06
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781437902044

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Role of Infrastructure in Land-Use Dynamics and Rice Production in Viet Nam's Mekong River Delta by Christopher Edmonds Pdf

Examines the role of infrastructure development and technical change in explaining increases in agricultural production and changes in land use in the Mekong Delta Region of Viet Nam during the mid-1990s. The transportation costs involved in moving agricultural input and output between farms and markets significantly effect farm land use and production decisions. Greater transport costs reduce the likelihood that farms adopt intensive cropping patterns or cultivate non-rice crops. Results suggest that the quality of local water management infrastructure is much more important than transport costs in explaining the increased intensity of land use and level of production observed in the Mekong Delta during the 1990s. Illustrations.

Author : François Molle
Publisher : IWMI
Page : 47 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Irrigation
ISBN : 9789290906087

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Irrigation and Water Policies in the Mekong Region by François Molle Pdf

This report documents current irrigation and water policies in the Mekong countries. It successively reviews planning issues, water policies and legal frameworks, the setting up of water policy "apex bodies," participatory policies, and IWRM/river basin management.