Castella Jean-Christophe, Gevraise V., Novosad P. (2005). Centralized planning and economic reforms in a mountainous region in Vietnam. Journal of Contemporary Asia, 35 (2), p. 166-182.
Titre du document
Centralized planning and economic reforms in a mountainous region in Vietnam
Journal of Contemporary Asia, 2005,
35 (2), p. 166-182
This study contributes to an understanding of the diversity of agrarian systems in the mountainous regions of northern Vietnam. By examining over 100 small family farms, we identified the major changes in production systems that have occurred over the last 50 years. Access to land, population migration, and individual initiative were the three major factors driving household differentiation. State policies had substantial impacts on all three factors, making the State the key driving force of differentiation. After years of central planning, farmers are now free to make their own choices as they interact with their new environment: the market economy. Effective farmers' organizations need to be established to provide farmers with the information and decision-making tools they need to adjust their production to fit the market. Somewhere between State control and total independence, community-based natural resource management schemes are needed to ensure that small family farms in the isolated mountainous areas are sustainable in the face of ineluctable macroeconomic changes.
Plan de classement
Socio-économie de l'élevage [098ELEVA]
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Politique agricole, développement rural [098RURAL2]
Descripteurs
PAYS A ECONOMIE PLANIFIEE ; EXPLOITATION AGRICOLE FAMILIALE ; SYSTEME DE PRODUCTION ; ACCES A LA TERRE ; MIGRATION ; UTILISATION DU SOL ; AMENAGEMENT RURAL ; ELEVAGE ; BETAIL ; ECONOMIE RURALE ; ECONOMIE DE MARCHE ; AIDE A LA DECISION ; INNOVATION ; GESTION DE L'ENVIRONNEMENT ; DEVELOPPEMENT RURAL ; POLITIQUE AGRICOLE ; INTERVENTION DE L'ETAT ; ZONE DE MONTAGNE ; DEVELOPPEMENT DURABLE
