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Author : Phout Simmalavong
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Ban Houaxiang (Laos)
ISBN : 8190991434
Author : Swapan Kumar Bhattacharyya
Publisher : Calcutta : Minerva Associates (Publications)
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : CORNELL:31924001447485
Report of a study conducted in Narayangarh Block, Midnapore District, West Bengal.
Author : Rob Cramb
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789811509988
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 : Martin Stuart-Fox,Simon Creak
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 751 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2023-02-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781538120286
Laos has the smallest population, the weakest military, and despite rapid economic growth in recent years, one of the lowest levels of per capita income in mainland Southeast Asia. Yet a glance at the map reveals its strategic location, between China and Cambodia and Thailand and Vietnam. As Laos was formerly a crossroads for trade routes, the socialist government of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic seeks to transform the country into a prosperous crossroads at the heart of this rapidly developing region. Historical Dictionary of Laos, Fourth Edition provides an in-depth examination of one of the least-known countries in Southeast Asia through a detailed chronology, comprehensive introduction, and extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 1,000 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, as well as aspects of the country’s politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book will be an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Laos.
Author : David Ludwig,Birgit Boogaard,Phil Macnaghten,Cees Leeuwis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000478723
This book develops an integrated perspective on the practices and politics of making knowledge work in inclusive development and innovation. While debates about development and innovation commonly appeal to the authority of academic researchers, many current approaches emphasise the plurality of actors with relevant expertise for addressing livelihood challenges. Adopting an action-oriented and reflexive approach, this volume explores the variety of ways in which knowledge works, paying particular attention to dilemmas and controversies. The six parts of the book address the complex interplay of knowledge and politics, starting with the need for knowledge integration in the first part and decolonial perspectives on the politics of knowledge integration in the second part. The following three parts focus on the practices of inclusive development and innovation through three major themes of learning for transformative change, evidence, and digitisation. The final part of the book addresses the governance of knowledge and innovation in the light of political struggles about inclusivity. Exploring conceptual and practical themes through case studies from the Global North and South, this book will be of great interest to students, scholars, and practitioners researching and working in development studies, epistemology, innovation studies, science and technology studies, and sustainability studies more broadly.
Author : David Holm
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783111383095
Author : Ningombam Basanta
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Lois (Indic people)
ISBN : UOM:39015080544839
Modernization Is An Irresistible Force With An Unending Process. It Has Spread To Every Corner Of The Globe And Has Crossed Harnessing Of The Forces Make Life Cozy And Meaningful. However, It Has The Potential Of Destroying A Community If Not Assimilated
Author : Sitakant Mahapatra
Publisher : Calcutta ; New York : Oxford University Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015018606775
The Santals of Mayurbhanj District in Orissa, one of the largest tribal communities in India, embrace a proud and traditional society with unique value systems, social hierarchies, and a strong sense of identity. Currently, the Santals, torn between tradition and modernity, are trying to forge a new identity and evolve new attitudes toward individual and community, illness, medicine and witchcraft, politics, and religion. Based on extensive field research, this insightful anthropological study closely detrmines what happens to a traditional society exposed to forces of rapid modernization.
Author : Seong Chee Tham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Chinese
ISBN : UOM:39015012869684
Author : Phinit Rattanakun,Kyaw Than
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Southeast Asia
ISBN : UOM:39015021897668
Contributed papers.
Author : Seong Chee Tham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Religion and sociology
ISBN : OCLC:16634433
Author : F. Merlin Franco,Magne Knudsen,Noor Hasharina Hassan
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2022-07-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789811667190
This open access book demonstrates the linkages between local languages, traditional knowledge, and biodiversity at the landscape level in Asia, providing a fresh approach to discussions on Asia’s biocultural diversity. The book carries forward earlier analyses but importantly focuses on ‘traditional ecological calendars,’ ‘folk medicine,’ and ‘folk names’ in the context of the vital importance of maintaining biological, cultural, and linguistic diversity. It does this by addressing a range of cases and issues in relation to Southeast Asia: Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, and North-East India. The several chapters demonstrate the ways in which the various forms of knowledge of the environment and its categorizations are important in areas such as landscape and resource management and conservation. They also demonstrate that environmental knowledge and the practical skills which accompany it are not necessarily widely shared. This book sends important messages to those who care about the sustainability of our environment, the maintenance of its biocultural diversity, or at least the maintenance of what remains of it because much has changed. This interdisciplinary collection draws from a wide range of disciplines and is of appeal to students and scholars in anthropology, environmental studies, geography, biodiversity, and linguistics.
Author : Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1994-11-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781400820979
Are we what we eat? What does food reveal about how we live and how we think of ourselves in relation to others? Why do people have a strong attachment to their own cuisine and an aversion to the foodways of others? In this engaging account of the crucial significance rice has for the Japanese, Rice as Self examines how people use the metaphor of a principal food in conceptualizing themselves in relation to other peoples. Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney traces the changing contours that the Japanese notion of the self has taken as different historical Others--whether Chinese or Westerner--have emerged, and shows how rice and rice paddies have served as the vehicle for this deliberation. Using Japan as an example, she proposes a new cross-cultural model for the interpretation of the self and other.
Author : Jelle J.P. Wouters,Michael T. Heneise
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000598582
The Routledge Handbook of Highland Asia is the first comprehensive and critical overview of the ethnographic and anthropological work in Highland Asia over the past half a century. Opening up a grand new space for critical engagement, the handbook presents Highland Asia as a world-region that cuts across the traditional divides inherited from colonial and Cold War area divisions - the Indian Subcontinent/South Asia, Southeast Asia, China/East Asia, and Central Asia. Thirty-two chapters assess the history of research, identify ethnographic trends, and evaluate a range of analytical themes that developed in particular settings of Highland Asia. They cover varied landscapes and communities, from Kyrgyzstan to India, from Bhutan to Vietnam and bring local voices and narratives relating trade and tribute, ritual and resistance, pilgrimage and prophecy, modernity and marginalization, capital and cosmos to the fore. The handbook shows that for millennia, Highland Asians have connected far-flung regions through movements of peoples, goods and ideas, and at all times have been the enactors, repositories, and mediators of world-historical processes. Taken together, the contributors and chapters subvert dominant lowland narratives by privileging primarily highland vantages that reveal Highland Asia as an ecumune and prism that refracts and generates global history, social theory, and human imagination. In the currently unfolding Asian Century, this compels us to reorient and re-envision Highland Asia, in ethnography, in theory, and in the connections between this world-region, made of hills, highlands and mountains, and a planetary context. The handbook reveals both regional commonalities and diversities, generalities and specificities, and a broad orientation to key themes in the region. An indispensable reference work, this handbook fills a significant gap in the literature and will be of interest to academics, researchers and students interested in Highland Asia, Zomia Studies, Anthropology, Comparative Politics, Conceptual History and Sociology, Southeast Asian Studies, Central Asian Studies and South Asian Studies as well as Asian Studies in general.
Author : Marta Antonelli,Francesca Greco
Publisher : Springer
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319163932
This book pursues a comprehensive, multidisciplinary approach in order to analyze the relationship between water and food security. It demonstrates that most of the world’s economies lack sufficient water resources to secure their populations’ food requirements and are thus virtual importers of water. One of the most inspiring cases, which this book is rooted in, is Italy: the third largest net virtual water importer on earth. The book also shows that the sustainability of water depends on the extent to which societies recognize and take into account its value and contribution to agricultural production. Due to the large volumes of water required for food production, water and food security are in fact inextricably linked. Contributions from leading international experts and scholars in the field use the concepts of virtual water and water footprints to explain this relationship, with an eye to the empirical examples of wine, tomato and pasta production in Italy. This book provides a valuable resource for all researchers, professionals, policymakers and everyone else interested in water and food security.