Agrobiodiversity and comercialization of food plant species in mountainous farming systems in northern Laos

Sian Phommaluesa

Diplomová práce

Abstract:

the purpose of this study was to document agrobiodiversity and comercialization of food plant species among Lao lom and Hmong homegarden in mountainous areas of nothern Laos. It was a study that looked at how different between Lao loum and Hmong based on household resource use in homegardens, homegardnen structures, homegarden characteristics, species richness in homegardens, impact of homegarden comercialization on household and agrobiodiversity, the most important food plant species and market orientation. The data were analysed by using SPSS to find out the statistic descriptive, t-test, mean and standard deviation.The major results to this study were showed that the household resources use was significant different between both study site, significant on homegarden structure, homegardens were played important role to household income and agrobiodiversty and significant different between Lao loum and Hmong. However, in this study there was no more information to indicate that homegardens are the keys for sustainable agricultural development, which in my opinion could be question for next study at the similar topic, the other question should be how off-farm activities effect to homegarden structure and agrobiodiversity in homegardens.

Keywords

agrobiodiversity, comercialization, household resource, household income, cash crop, market orientation, homegarden, Laos

Jazyk práce: angličtina

Datum vytvoření / odevzdání či podání práce: 27. 4. 2018

Obhajoba závěrečné práce

• Vedoucí: Ing. Vladimír Verner, Ph.D.

Česká zemědělská univerzita v Praze

Fakulta tropického zemědělství

Magisterský studijní program / obor:
Tropické zemědělství / International Development and Agricultural Economics