Abstract Across Southeast Asia, coastal livelihoods are becoming more diverse and more
commodified, as maritime zone developments intensify. We review literature from the ten …

The ongoing and proposed construction of large-scale hydropower dams in the Mekong
river basin is a subject of intense debate and growing international concern due to the …

Mosaic landscapes under shifting cultivation, with their dynamic mix of managed and natural
land covers, often fall through the cracks in remote sensing–based land cover and land use …

This meta-analysis of land-cover transformations of the past 10–15 years in tropical forest-
agriculture frontiers world-wide shows that swidden agriculture decreases in landscapes …

Palm oil producing countries regularly promote the positive impact of oil palm agriculture on
poverty alleviation, despite limited evidence about the contribution of this crop on village …

Changes in globalised agriculture raise critical questions as rapid agricultural development
leads to widespread social and environmental transformation. With increased global …

This paper argues that research into the dynamics of land control in the contemporary 'land
grab'can benefit from engagement with the literature on booms in the production of crops …

Oil palm is a highly profitable crop adapted to the humid tropics and the area devoted to this
crop is likely to expand significantly in the future. It has many environmentally favourable …

More than 50 years ago the FAO Staff through its forestry journal Unasylva issued an
“appeal… to governments, research centers, associations and private persons who are in a …

For centuries swidden was an important farming practice found across the girth of Southeast
Asia. Today, however, these systems are changing and sometimes disappearing at a pace …