Resources Tagged: Asia

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  1. Options for Soil and Farmer Friendly Agriculture in the Highlands of Northern Thailand

    1998-01-19 Highland agriculture in northern Thailand is undergoing rapid changes, some for better, some for worse. These changes affect the livelihood of highland minority peoples as well as the livelihood of large rural and urban lowland Thai communities. They also affect the ecological balance of the rich...
    Asia

  2. Planting Roots with Non-Timber Forest Products

    Farming Matters Magazine -- Burnette, R. and A. Bicksler (2016) -- In recent decades, resource challenged hill tribe farmers and gardeners in northern Thailand have recognised the importance of various threatened species that yield non-timber forest products.Conserving these species in...
    Asia

  3. Agrosilvopastoral Systems in Northern Thailand and Northern Laos: Minority Peoples’ Knowledge versus Government Policy

    Abstract :Traditional agrosilvopastoral systems have been an important component of the farming systems and livelihoods of thousands of ethnic minority people in the uplands of Mainland Southeast Asia. Drawing on a combination of qualitative and participatory inquiries in nine ethnic minority...
    Asia

  4. Agroecology Learning alliance in South East Asia (ALiSEA)

    The Agroecology Learning alliance in South East Asia (ALiSEA) is supported and coordinated at national and regional level by GRET (www.gret.org). ALiSEA’s goal is to enable local and regional agroecology stakeholders to leverage one another’s expertise to produce evidence based studies and share...
    Library Digital Resource Asia

  5. Community Based Landslide Early Warning System: An Approach to Landslide Risk Reduction

    2017-05-23 History, figures and examples of landslides in Nepal as well as factors that trigger landslides.
    Asia

  6. Guide to the naturalized and invasive plants of Southeast Asia

    2017-01-20 Despite the significant impacts of alien plant species (IAS), there has not been a concerted effort to tackle the problem across the region. This can mainly be ascribed to a lack of policy, little awareness and limited capacity at a national and regional level. The UN Environment-Global...
    Invasives Invasive Species Introduced Species Mapping Monitoring Weed Control Weeds Asia

  7. 2018 Asia Pacific Sustainable Agriculture & Development Conference

    2018-02-06
    Asia Pacific Sustainable Agricu... Community Development Food Security Asia

  8. AN Issue #32

    2017-08-15 Featured in this AN: Inexpensive Mass Propagation Techniques for Introducing Improved Potato Varieties in the Tropics Comparing Locally Available Waste By-Products as Feedstocks forGasifier Cook-Stoves Book Review:Sustainable Agro-Watershed Management
    Asia

  9. Comparing Locally Available Waste By-Products as Feedstocks for Gasifier Cook-Stoves

    This article is from ECHO Asia Note # 32. In many developing world households, meeting the daily energy needs required for cooking is burdensome and costly. Fortunately, low-cost cooking methods that require less fuel while burning more cleanly and efficiently are becoming available at the...
    Cookstove Waste By-products Gasifier Cook-Stove Asia

  10. Inexpensive Mass Propagation Techniques for Introducing Improved Potato Varieties in the Tropics

    This article is from ECHO Asia Note # 32. Dr. Tapani Haapala Potatoes (Solanum tuberosum) contain high-quality food properties and are very good protein and energy sources on a daily per hectare basis of production (Frusciante et al. 2000). Potatoes are grown mostly in cool climate areas. In the...
    Potatoes Plant Propagation Asia