Abstract
Abstract This chapter examines the effects of the Lao government's policy to eliminate or stabilize swidden farming and its promotion of the conversion of swiddens to monoculture cash crops, such as rubber, grown in plantations. It is concluded that the privatization of swidden land by rubber plantations in Laos has not only resulted in drastic changes to farming practices, land-scarcity problems and migration of dispossessed villagers, but has also affected social relationships at family and community levels. There is cause for serious concern that traditional technical knowledge related to swidden cultivation will gradually disappear, along with the related rituals that support ethnic bonds and preserve ethnic traditions.
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