Peasants, plantations, and pulp: The politics of eucalyptus in Thailand

In Thailand, as in many other tropical countries, a substantial part of the population lives on recently deforested land. Between 1961 and 1985, at least a quarter of the country's land area of half a million square kilometers was deforested and put under cultivation. Approximately one-third of all Thai farmland, and as much as 15 percent of the Thai population, are found within what are technically classified as forest reserves.