@incollection{fdi:010090417, title = {{T}he rise of mega farms in the vietnamese dairy sector : a marker of a new agrarian capitalism in {A}sia}, author = {{D}uteurtre, {G}. and {N}guyen, {M}.{H}. and {P}annier, {E}mmanuel}, editor = {}, language = {{ENG}}, abstract = {{U}p to the mid-2000s, the development of {V}ietnamese dairy production relied on the complementarity between small peasant farms, private milk processors, and public sector services. {I}n the late 2000s, this regime ran up against questions concerning the underlying food model, mainly due to its dependence on imported milk powder. {V}ietnamese policies encourage capitalist firms to enter the milk production sector. {T}he emergence of mega dairy farms (holding more than 1000 cows each) reflects this change of direction pushed to the extreme. {I}n 2018, mega farms represented 32% of the national dairy herd. {T}his rapid change reflects the growing importance of financial capital and high technologies in the transformation of today's {V}ietnamese agriculture. {T}his new agrarian capitalism relies on new food models concerned with "health safety". {B}ut mega farms also constitute a challenge to the social dimension of agriculture: they provide fewer jobs per liter of milk than smallholder farms, because they substitute capital for labor. {T}he rise of this new agrarian capitalism is constrained by the fact that the {S}tate, which formally owns the land, tends to preserve land-use rights for smallholder farmers.}, keywords = {{VIET} {NAM}}, booktitle = {{R}ethinking asian capitalism : the achievements and challenges of {V}ietnam under {D}oi {M}oi}, numero = {}, pages = {93--114}, address = {{C}ham}, publisher = {{P}algrave {M}acmillan ; {S}pringer}, series = {}, year = {2022}, DOI = {10.1007/978-3-030-98104-4_4}, ISBN = {978-3-030-98103-7}, URL = {https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010090417}, }