Excavating agrarian transformation under ‘secure’ crop booms: insights from the China-Myanmar borderland
Excavating agrarian transformation under ‘secure’ crop booms: insights from the China-Myanmar borderland
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DOI：
10.1080/03066150.2021.1926993
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2021-08
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通讯作者：
Xiaobo Hua;Y. Kono;Le Zhang
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作者：
Xiaobo Hua;Y. Kono;Le Zhang
摘要本文研究了中缅边境地区由于作物繁荣而导致的农业生计的转变。一个关键的发现是，当地村民已经将他们的土地出租给希望进行水果繁荣投资的外部投资者。然而，村民们既不自己种植同样的作物，也不被雇佣为雇佣工人。总的来说，这项研究发现，作物繁荣为当地村民提供了重新分配自然资源和调整生计的机会。我们认为，农业生计的动态是共同产生的结果，跨国劳动力迁移和国家主导的边境土地重新定位下安全的土地保有权关系。这项研究有助于目前的讨论，关于农业社会经历作物繁荣的变化。
ABSTRACT This paper examines the transformation of agrarian livelihoods due to crop booms at the China-Myanmar borderland. A key finding is that local villagers have rented out their land to outside investors looking to make fruit boom investments. However, the villagers neither cultivated the same crops themselves, nor were they hired as wage laborers. Overall, this study finds that crop booms provide local villagers with opportunities to reallocate natural resources and adjust their livelihoods. We argue that the dynamics of agrarian livelihoods are co-produced as the result of transnational labor migration and state-led borderland repositioning under secure land tenure relations. This study contributes to the current discussion regarding the changes undergone by an agrarian society experiencing crop booms.