Civilising the uplands: development of rubber plantations in remote areas of Lao PDR

• Ethnic minorities and indigenous people

This paper begins with the global context of the rubber expansion. The paper then summarises what have been seen as the upland problems and some limited success to resolve the upland problems. In the following section, the paper considers why the state considers that a rubber tree is likely to be compatible with the attempt to develop the uplands. Two different paths of rubber boom in two upland communities in Luang Namtha province are also detailed for considering how ‘civilisation’ climbs hills.

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Civilising the uplands: development of rubber plantations in remote areas of Lao PDR

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Document type	Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Publication date	2010.0
Copyright	Yes
License	Creative Commons Attribution
Author (individual)	Wasana La-orngplew
Language	English
Date modified	6 Dec 2019