Sustainable Land Use in Mountainous Regions of Southeast Asia Meetin
Mountainous regions are vitally important ecosystems. They are an important storage of fresh water and energy, a rich source of biodiversity and a significant provider of food for the people living there. They are ecologically highly variable, complex and
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Heidhues, L. Herrmann, A. Neef, S. Neidhart, J. Pape, P. Sruamsiri, D. C. Thu, A. Valle Zárate (Eds.)
Sustainable Land Use in Mountainous Regions of Southeast Asia Meeting the Challenges of Ecological, Socio-Economic and Cultural Diversity
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EDITORS: PROF. DR. FRANZ HEIDHUES DR. LUDGER HERRMANN DR. ANDREAS NEEF DR. SYBILLE NEIDHART DR. JENS PAPE PROF. DR. VALLE ZÁRATE UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM THE UPLANDS PROGRAM (SFB 564) 70593 STUTTGART GERMANY E-mail: [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]
ASSOC. PROF. DR. PITTAYA SRUAMSIRI CHIANG MAI UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF HORTICULTURE CHIANG MAI 50200 THAILAND E-mail: [email protected]
ASSOC. PROF. DR. DAO CHAO THU HANOI AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY GIA LAM HANOI VIETNAM E-mail: [email protected]
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Preface Mountainous regions are vitally important ecosystems. They are an important storage of fresh water and energy, a rich source of biodiversity and a significant provider of food for the people living there. They are ecologically highly variable, complex and vulnerable and ethnically, socio-culturally and economically extremely heterogeneous. At the same time they are under severe and increasing pressures caused by higher population growth, inmigration, resource exploitation and rising demands and expectations. They also account for a major share of poverty and food insecurity in rural areas. Given their importance, complexity and vulnerability mountainous regions pose a demanding and new challenge for agricultural research, particularly for research that is addressing environmental sustainability, poverty and food insecurity. The University of Hohenheim’s long-term research p
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