Sustainable Land Use in Mountainous Regions of Southeast Asia

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XXX

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2. Introduction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Introduction

      • Franz Heidhues, Jens Pape

      Pages 3-14

3. Sustainable Resource Management in the Highlands

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15

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   2. Introduction

      • Mattiga Panomtaranichagul, Ludger Herrmann

      Pages 17-20

   3. Variability of Soil Resources in Northern Thailand

      • Ludger Herrmann, Klaus Spohrer, Ulrich Schuler, Karl Stahr, Niwat Anongrak, Thanun Hongsak et al.

      Pages 21-36

   4. Water Allocation and Management in Northern Thailand: The Case of Mae Sa Watershed

      • Andreas Neef, Chapika Sangkapitux, Wolfram Spreer, Peter Elstner, Liane Chamsai, Anne Bollen et al.

      Pages 37-53

   5. The Environmental Fate of Agro-Chemicals: A Case Study in the Mae Sa Noi Watershed

      • Holger Ciglasch, Julia Busche, Peter Ballarin, Christopher E. Tarn, Wulf Amelung, Martin Kaupenjohann et al.

      Pages 54-67

   6. Biodiversity and Landscape Structure: Challenges for Insect Management Strategies in Lychee Orchards in the Mountains of Northern Thailand

      • Dirk Euler, Konrad Martin, Joachim Sauerborn, Vichian Hengsavad

      Pages 68-76

   7. Synthesis: Constraints to Sustainable Use of Soil and Water in the Northern Thailand Highlands and Consequences for Future Research

      • Ludger Herrmann, Mattiga Panomtaranichagul

      Pages 77-79

4. Sustainable Fruit Production and Processing Systems

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 81-81

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   2. Introduction

      • Pittaya Sruamsiri, Sybille Neidhart

      Pages 83-91

   3. Stabilisation of Fruit Production by Optimised Plant Nutrition

      • Sithidech Roygrong, Pittaya Sruamsiri, Fritz Bangerth, Ludger Herrmann, Volker Römheld

      Pages 92-95

   4. Strategies for Flower Induction to Improve Orchard Productivity: From Compensation of Alternate Bearing to Off-Season Fruit Production

      • Pittaya Sruamsiri, Amonnat Chattrakul, Pawin Manochai, Martin Hegele, Daruni Naphrom, Winai Wiriya-Alongkorn et al.

      Pages 96-109

   5. The Plant-Physiological Basis of Flower Induction in the Control of Fruit Production

      • Martin Hegele, Fritz Bangerth, Daruni Naphrom, Pawin Manochai, Pittaya Sruamsiri, Winai Wiriya-Alongkorn et al.

      Pages 110-119

   6. Alternative Techniques for Water-Saving Irrigation and Optimised Fertigation in Fruit Production in Northern Thailand

      • Somchai Ongprasert, Wolfram Spreer, Winai Wiriya-Alongkorn, Saksan Ussahatanonta, Karlheinz Köller

      Pages 120-133

   7. The Control of Postharvest Ripening Processes and its Implications for the Productivity of Mango Processing

      • Sybille Neidhart, Ana Lucía Vásquez-Caicedo, Busarakorn Mahayothee, Isabell Pott, Werner Mühlbauer, Pittaya Sruamsiri et al.

      Pages 134-146

   8. Innovative Strategies for Sustainable Lychee Processing

      • Sybille Neidhart, Piyatip Hutasingh, Reinhold Carle

      Pages 147-158

   9. Synthesis: Food Safety, Productivity and Environmental Awareness as Key Objectives in Sustainable Fruit Production and Processing Systems

      • Sybille Neidhart, Pittaya Sruamsiri

      Pages 159-171

5. Livestock Production Systems

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 173-173

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Mountainous regions are vitally important ecosystems. They are an important storage of fresh water and energy, a rich source of biodiversity and a significant provider of food for the people living there. They are ecologically highly variable, complex and vulnerable and ethnically, socio-culturally and economically extremely heterogeneous. At the same time they are under severe and increasing pressures caused by higher population growth, inmigration, resource exploitation and rising demands and expectations. They also account for a major share of poverty and food insecurity in rural areas. Given their importance, complexity and vulnerability mountainous regions pose a demanding and new challenge for agricultural research, particularly for research that is addressing environmental sustainability, poverty and food insecurity. The University of Hohenheim’s long-term research program “Sustainable Land Use and Rural Development in Mountainous Regions of Southeast Asia” (Sonderforschungsbereich (SFB) 564 der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft, also known as “The Uplands Program”) is taking on that challenge. It is an integrated interdisciplinary research program where sustainable innovations for agricultural production systems, combining fruit trees, crops, livestock and aquacultural production in their interaction with soil, water and agrochemical use are analysed, as well as their impact on landscape diversity and population dynamics of pests and beneficial insects. Further along the value added chain of agricultural production, potentials of product conservation, processing and marketing are studied.

• Alter
• Food Chain
• Interdisciplinarity
• Land Use
• Marketing
• Southeast Asia
• Sustainability
• Sustainable development
• biodiversity
• development
• ecosystem
• environment
• non-governmental organizations
• production

• The Uplands Program (SFB 564), University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany

  Franz Heidhues, Ludger Herrmann, Andreas Neef, Sybille Neidhart, Jens Pape, Valle Zárate

• Department Of Horticulture, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand

  Pittaya Sruamsiri

• Hanoi Agricultural University, Gia Lam Hanoi, Vietnam

  Dao Chao Thu

The SFB 564 "Research for Sustainable Land Use and Rural Development in Mountainous Regions of Southeast Asia” (also known as "The Uplands Program”) is a long-term collaborative research program, cooperating with 9 universities and research institutes from Thailand, Vietnam and Germany. The objectives of The Uplands Program are (i) to create the scientific base for developing and testing sustainable production and land use systems with increased productivity in ecologically fragile and economically disadvantaged mountainous regions in Southeast Asia; (ii) to develop concepts for rural institutions that can contribute to a sustainable reduction of rural poverty and food insecurity, and (iii) to advance methods for analyzing complex ecosystems and their interactions with the socio-cultural, economic and institutional environment. The research activities integrate the priorities of stakeholders involved in the management of natural resources and in rural development processes. Participation, sustainability and interdisciplinarity are central components in The Uplands Program

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