… ’ relationship with land and natural resources. The current study examines patterns of land
use change in northern Laos, especially focusing on the expansion of agricultural land in …

… land use change on livelihoods are also diverse. Cash crop producers hold more agricultural
land than non-cash crop producers, and rubber … the cultivation of swiddens with upland rice …

… , the land is already used by the villagers for their swidden … They started harvesting in
2008–2009 when rubber prices … The changes in governance and land use as well as market …

… changing characteristics of swidden land and rubber plantation … datasets of Laos with 300
m resolution in 2009 were derived … border agricultural policies, especially rubber plantation …

… and land-use systems (Thongmanivong and Fujita, 2006). … Land use and livelihoods are
undergoing rapid change in … , idle land: The changing roles of swidden fallows in Sarawak’ …

… and rubber tree cultivation (Thongmanivong et al., nd). This transition from shifting cultivation
to other … (Thongmanivong et al., nd). From that time on, agricultural land (swidden) has not …

… A newspaper report in 2009 stated that more than 1,000 … province of Champassak where
swidden cultivation is widely … driven land management policy and the reckless transformation …

Full article: An agent-based model of agricultural innovation, land-cover change and household
inequality: the transition from swidden cultivation to rubber plantations in Laos PDR Skip …

… , rubber production significantly modifies local agricultural … main forms of land use for
rubber planting in Laos and both … such as incomes generation, land use change, and decision-…

… governance and agricultural practices in tropical forest … case studies on land use and land
cover change in Laos, in … and 2009 for a Vietnamese company to establish rubber plantations […