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Stasis and Change in Forty Years of Southeast Asian Agriculture
Author(s) -
Hill R.D.
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
singapore journal of tropical geography
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.538
H-Index - 42
eISSN - 1467-9493
pISSN - 0129-7619
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9493.1998.tb00247.x
Subject(s) - agriculture , typology , context (archaeology) , poverty , sustainability , geography , structural change , economic geography , southeast asia , identification (biology) , development economics , regional science , economic growth , economics , sociology , ethnology , market economy , ecology , botany , archaeology , biology
Agricultural change in Southeast Asia over the last three decades is reviewed within the context of structural change of the region’s economies. An agricultural typology is outlined and the degree to which agricultural systems have remained static is examined leading to the identification of various kinds and degrees of change amongst the systems – extensification, intensification and disintensification. The paper concludes that while macro‐level structural change is the basic process driving changes in agriculture, there remain important issues of long‐term sustainability, poverty and distribution of benefits.