Gambling with the land : the contemporary evolution of Southeast Asian agriculture / Rodolphe De Koninck and Jean-Francois Rousseau
Imprint
Singapore : NUS Press, 2012
Descript
xv, 187 p. : ill. ; 30 cm
CONTENT
Introduction: Assessing the dynamism of Southeast Asian agriculture -- Southeast Asian agriculture expansion in global perspective -- Growth, development, urbanization and globalization -- The relative decline of agricultural employment -- Agricultural growth, diversification, intensification and expansion -- Expansion and intensification of food crops and increse in livestock production -- Expansion and intensification of cash crops -- Pressuring the land and the sea