Swidden Transformations and Rural Livelihoods in Southeast Asia

By R. Cramb, C. Colfer, W. Dressler, P. Laungaramsri, Quang Le, Elok Mulyoutami, N. Peluso, R. Wadley. 2009

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Oil palm expansion transforms tropical landscapes and livelihoods (2012, background): “These negotiations are often asymmetrical, with local people lacking access to information, or to legal recourse when their rights are infringed (Colchester et al., 2006; Colchester, 2011; Cramb et al., 2009; Cramb, 2012).”
Effects of Landscape Segregation on Livelihood Vulnerability: Moving From Extensive Shifting Cultivation to Rotational Agriculture and Natural Forests in Northern Laos (2013, background): “2009) and with the uncertainty of market demand (Cramb et al. 2009; Yokoyama 2010).”
Improving diets with wild and cultivated biodiversity from across the landscape (2015, background): “In Indonesia, Colfer and Soedjito (2008) propose that the increased use of forest food in the dry season was a result of people having more time for hunting and gathering activities while they waited for the period when the rice fields can be burnt for the next agricultural cycle.”
The Intensification of Fishing and the Rise of Tourism: Competing Coastal Livelihoods in the Calamianes Islands, Philippines (2010, background): “In Southeast Asia and the Philippines, scholars have analysed how livelihoods have been progressively transformed from predominantly small-scale rural activities to more intensified agricultural and to diversified, “offfarm” activities (Cramb et al. 2009; Eder 1999; Rigg 2005, 2006).”