Balancing Commodities and Culture : Alternative Agriculture and the Viable Indigenous Model
@inproceedings{Wood2013BalancingCA, title={Balancing Commodities and Culture : Alternative Agriculture and the Viable Indigenous Model}, author={Liza Wood}, year={2013}, url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:17130721} }
I woke up to the sound of morning glory frying as my host mother, Pikoon Phanloed, cooked up breakfast before starting her morning chores on the farm. I was on one of my first home stays during my fall 2011 semester in northeastern Thailand, living with a family involved in the Alternative Agriculture Network (AAN)—a non-governmental organization that promotes sustainable agriculture. The sun was beginning to peak through the cracks of the wooden house, illuminating some of the dusty posters on…
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