International Outreach of Thailand's Sustainable Alternative Livelihood Development Approach

Speaker: Duke Diskul
Director of Operations, Centre for Social Entrepreneurship
The Mae Fah Luang Foundation

The Mae Fah Luang Foundation (http://www.maefahluang.org) was established 20 years ago in the heart of the Golden Triangle to combat the opium cultivation that was crippling the lives of rural people, confining them to poverty, addiction, and subsistent-level economies. The Sustainable Alternative Livelihood Development (SALD) model was developed out of this work. It is a people-centric approach which always brings development work back to the question, “What will the people get out of it?”

The Foundation now implements SALD in Burma ( Myanmar), Indonesia, and Afghanistan, lifting the livelihoods of the rural poor by using a simple, practical, logical approach in the creation of value chains for commodity products, to achieve local empowerment.

More info: http://www.maefahluang.org/maefahluang/flagships/doitung_dev_projects/index.asp

ABOUT DUKE DISKUL

Mr. Diskul is the Director of Operations for the Centre for Social Entrepreneurship - a rural development arm of the Mae Fah Luang Foundation under Royal Patronage, a development foundation founded by Her Royal Highness Princess Srinagarindra, the late mother of His Majesty the King of Thailand. Prior to his current position, he worked as Director of Doi Tung Food Department (2006-2007) and as the Marketing Manager for the Doi Tung Development Project (2005-2006), both of which are under the Foundation's control.

Mr. Diskul graduated from Brandeis University (Massachusetts, USA) with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics in 1997. He continued his education at SASIN Graduate Institute of Business Administration, Chulalongkorn University (Bangkok, Thailand) where he graduated with a Master of Business Administration in 2005. He enjoys various sports such as Golf, Basketball, Football (Soccer) and Tennis.

TOPICS

Social Entrepreneurship, Sustainable Agriculture & Narcotic Substitution, Sustainable Development, International Health, Thailand, Burma, Afghanistan, Indonesia

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