Retaining the Old Countryside, Embracing the New Countryside: Vietnam's New Rural Development Program.

Autor: TUAN ANH NGUYEN, GILLEN, JAMIE, RIGG, JONATHAN
Zdroj: Journal of Vietnamese Studies; Summer2021, Vol. 16 Issue 3, p77-110, 34p
Abstrakt: Vietnam's New Rural Development program envisages the creation of a newly modern rural Vietnam. Drawing on fieldwork, this paper argues that the program has had little bearing on peasant livelihood strategies. The emergence of deagrarianization has not arisen as a result of the program but because of household interest in maintaining a diverse set of income activities. These two contrasting rural realities--the advance of deagrarianization against a backdrop of continued subsistence farming--coexist and are mutually supportive. Peasant livelihood diversification strategies have been perpetuated without much attention to broader stateled initiatives aimed at "reforming" the countryside. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Databáze: Complementary Index