Hill Tribes and Rice Farmers in the Himalayas and South-East Asia: Problems of the Social and Ecological Differentiation of Agricultural Landscape Types

Karen Agro-Forestry: Processes, Functions, and Implications for Socio-Economic, Demographic, and Environmental Change in Northern Thailand

“…The hills of Northern Thailand are occupied by a mixture of Thai and non-Thai minority people with several distinct land-use systems (Uhlig, 1969;Kunstadter and Chapman, 1978). These are among the poorest people in Thailand and their populations are growing rapidly (Kunstadter, 1980;in press).…”