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Socio-ecological Determinants of Land Degradation and Rural Poverty in Northeast Thailand

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2009

Mir Javed Hussain  and
Donna L. Doane
Mir Javed Hussain
Affiliation:
Department of Natural Resources, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14850, USA
Donna L. Doane
Affiliation:
Associate Professor, Department of Economics, State University of New York, Cortland, NY 13045, USA.
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The discussion above illustrates the inadequacy of many of the development strategies that have been pursued in Northeast Thailand. The prevailing social, political, and economic, policies and trends have resulted in the transformation of the people of the Northeast from a relatively self-sustaining population to an increasingly impoverished one. In the course of the movement away from relatively self-sufficient subsistence-oriented production, they have been exposed to both the ‘rigours of the market’ and changing policies regarding access to markets, cash-crops, and land tenure — with all of their destabilizing, and in this case impoverishing, effects. This transformation has resulted in increased land degradation and rural poverty in the Northeast.

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Environmental Conservation , Volume 22 , Issue 1 , Spring 1995 , pp. 44 - 50
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Copyright © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 1995

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