Welcome Apr 23 2008
Welcome to the website of The International Symposium on Highland Development - Lessons Learned from The Royal Project.
The symposium was held from the 8th to the 10th of December, 2004, in Chiang Mai, Thailand. This website contains the papers delivered to the symposium, and records of several other symposium activities.
The symposium was on the topic of the sustainable development of highland and mountainous regions, and the replacement of illicit drug-crops. Within this broad field, the symposium addressed the following specific issues:
- Food security
- Forestry management
- Alternative development
- Marketing and distribution
- Sustainable land use
- Rural community development
- Collaboration
- Knowledge management
- Networking and knowledge-sharing
To learn more about our objectives click here, or if you wish to review the papers delivered to the symposium please visit the papers page.
One of the objectives of the symposium was to launch a new knowledge-sharing network. Click here to learn more about the new network.
The symposium closed with the reading of a symposium declaration, called the Ang Khang declaration. To read the full text of the declaration, click here.