Borneo Transformed: Agricultural Expansion in the Southeast Asian Frontier (Challenges of the Agrarian Transition in Southwest Asia (Chatsea))
Description
Since the 1960s, Southeast Asia's agricultural sector has experienced phenomenal growth, with increases in production linked to an energy-intensive capitalization of agriculture and the rapid development of agrifood systems and agribusiness. Agricultural intensification and territorial expansion have been key to this process, with expansion of areas under cultivation playing an unusually important role in the transformation of the countryside and livelihoods of its inhabitants.Borneo, with vast tracts of land not yet under crops, has been the epicentre of this expansion process, with r...
ISBN(s)
9971695448, 9789971695446
