Project name     Seasonal food bowl: Revitalizing the balances between livelihoods and landscape.

Location            WiangNongLom Wetland complex, Chiang rai, Thailand

Project Area      3000 rai

              WiangNongLom, the intermountain basin in Chiang Rai, Thailand, is an important natural resources with evidence of human settlements since per-historic era. The livelihood of this basin was based on landscape dynamic. The basin acts as a food bowl that provides food security and habitats for both human and wildlife. Nowadays, the basin has faced the rapid urbanisation and industrial developments which leads to the changing of community lifestyles, from traditional season-based agriculture and fishery has changed into industrially intensive agriculture practices. From those changes, they results in biodiversity loss, landscape degradation, community instability and food insecurity.

 

              This project aims to provide adaptive solutions to rebuild the healthier basin. In adapting the water management and ecological service restoration, the landscape designs are, therefore composed of three mainly focused issues, including restoring ecology services through reconnecting water flows, proposing the tradition-integrated rotation agricultural land use and improving community social activities.

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               With this initiative, it brings about positive changes in ways of living as well as balances between community and landscape to give community a sustainable lives.