Excavating agrarian transformation under 'secure' crop booms: insights from the China-Myanmar borderland

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 the...

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Published in:The Journal of peasant studies 2023-01, Vol.50 (1), p.339-368
Main Authors: Hua, Xiaobo, Kono, Yasuyuki, Zhang, Le
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
agrarian differentiation
Agrarian economy
Agrarian society
Agrarian structures
agrarian transformation
borderland
Crop boom
Crops
Internal migration
Investors
Labor migration
Land tenure
Natural resources
tenure security
Transformation
transnational labor migration
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Summary: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.
ISSN:0306-6150
1743-9361
DOI:10.1080/03066150.2021.1926993