Landscape agroforestry in northern Thailand: impacts of changing land use in an upper tributary watershed of montane mainland Southeast Asia. Studies based on the ASB-Thailand benchmark site Mae Chaem district, Chiang Mai Province

The ASB research program in Southeast Asia2 seeks to understand processes and dynamics of land use change important in mountainous regions of mainland Southeast Asia, and to help facilitate development of technologies and policies that can improve land use management in these areas. The following sections describe how evolving agroforestry concepts and approaches are being applied in the context of ASB-Thailand and ICRAF activities in mainland Southeast Asia, with a focus on research activities being conducted in an upper tributary sub-basin watershed of northern Thailand. Major components of this approach have included: 1) characterizing the MMSEA eco-regional context; 2) establishing a partnership framework and benchmark research site; 3) identifying forest policy concerns and characterizing land use change in upper tributary watersheds; 4) building on experience with agroforestry modification, adaptation and innovation; and 5) establishing the ASB-Thailand research framework. This chapter presents results of our efforts under each of these components.

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