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595– 672 Google Scholar.ġ5 See Sithong, Thongmanivong and Thungtong, Vongvisouk, ‘Impacts of cash crops on rural livelihoods: A case study from Muang Sing, Luang Namtha Province, Northern Lao LDR’, in Hanging in the balance: Equity in community-based natural resource management in Asia, ed. Goudineau, Yves and Lorrillard, Michel ( Paris and Vientiane: École française d'Extrême-Orient, 2008), pp. Baird, Ian, ‘The case of the Brao: Revisiting physical borders, ethnic identities and spatial and social organisation in the hinterlands of southern Laos and northeastern Cambodia’, in Recherches Nouvelles sur le Laos, Etudes thématiques, No. The Brao were swidden agriculturalists, combining their upland livelihood with fishing, hunting, and the collection of non-timber forest products until the past few decades, when some have taken up the cultivation of lowland wet rice and other cash crops.
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About half of the approximately 60,000 Brao live in Laos while the rest reside in Cambodia. This ethnic minority comprises a number of different subgroups, the most prominent being the Kreung, Brao Tanap, Umba, Kavet, Lun, Hamong, Ka-nying and Jree. 1 A Mon-Khmer language-speaking group, the Brao people live in the Ratanakiri and Stung Treng provinces of northeastern Cambodia, and Attapeu and Champassak provinces in southern Laos.