Tai-speaking peoples historically settled along river valleys, where they formed small settlements and engaged in subsistence rice agriculture, fishing, and gathering of forest products.
Permanent landholders usually reserve for themselves exclusive tree planting and felling rights, but may encourage tree pruning and gathering of tree products by other community members.
Women engaged in gathering of such products as roots, herbs, nuts, bird eggs, mollusks, fruit or honey, which possibly was even more important than hunting.
CES 2013 might finally live up to the show's potential: to be the greatest gathering of forward-thinking products and electronics.
The former CBI director general, Lord Digby Jones, has been speaking about the future of the West Midlands, as manufacturing in the region - once known as the workshop of the world - was marked with a gathering of locally-made products.
One employee turned the work of gathering products for shipping orders into a kind of game that required great agility of mind and body.
"We felt that if we could create what 1stdibs is about in real life — a gathering of really good product in one place — that people would be interested," said Michael Bruno, the company's founder.
All human activities, such as logging, hunting, and gathering of non-timber forest products, are prohibited.
This sort of stuff is where Google has the natural advantage, because it is best at the kinds of products that involve gathering and crunching huge amounts of data and doing something useful with it.
A significant aspect in the through-life management of products is the gathering and management of data related to the product during the various phases of its lifecycle.
