Opium farming and poverty as market failures
Subtitle: experiences in the Mekong region on marketing and micro-credit for alternative development : Regional Seminar on Alternative Development: Sharing Experiences and Good Practices on Micro-Credit, Revolving Funds and Marketing, held in Luang Prabang, Lao PDR, 12-16 March 2002
Contributors: United Nations International Drug Control Programme. Regional Centre for East Asia and the Pacific
Publisher: UNDCP Regional Centre for East Asia and the Pacific
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Bangkok
Language: eng
Number of pages: 168
Subjects: Agriculture; Economic aspects; Opium poppy growers
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Experiences and good practices from china on micro-credit, revolving funds and marketing; title: Experiences and good practices from Lao PRD on micro-credit, revolving funds and marketing; title: Ccmmunity-based revolving funds and marketing: experiences from nonghet; title: Revolving funds and marketing: tools to end shifting cultivation in xam neua; title: Experiences and good practices from myanmar on micro-credit, revolving funds and marketing; title: Some experiences from the Thai/UN pilot projects; title: Some lessons from northern Thailand; title: with special reference to the Thai-German highland development programme; title: Village and urban community revolving funds: a new Thai national programme; title: Royal project foundation: agricultural rredits and marketing; title: Experiences and good practices from vietnam on micro-credit, revolving funds and marketing; title: Micro-finance as a tool; title: Marketing of horticultural crops produced in mountainous regions of Northern Thailand; title: Marketing; title: the bottleneck of opium cradication? experiences from east Asia in marketing alternative development products; title: Recommended guidelines for marketing AD products; title: Between the lines: key issues and recommendations; title: Strengthening efforts towards opium eradication in Lao PRD by 2006; title: Better life without drugs; title: for all! a challenge for alternative development; title: Illicit drugs pose a real threat to human security: therefore alternative development must be economically safe.