Mind the GAP: Vietnamese Rice Farmers and Distal Markets

Hauge, Mads Martinus

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-33628-2_5

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“…Interdisciplinary studies in the LSS literature have made similar efforts to integrate actor networks and tackle diverse governance arrangements for land change by engaging with, for example, the Global Production Network (GPN) framework (e.g., [75][76][77]) and with multi-level or polycentric governance analysis (e.g., [8,9,78]). Such approaches present telecoupling research with the means to deal with connectivity between distant actors and outcomes in land systems, as well as their social, institutional, and territorial embeddedness in transnational production networks [21].…”

Section: Theoretical Backgroundmentioning

confidence: 99%

On the System. Boundary Choices, Implications, and Solutions in Telecoupling Land Use Change Research

Friis

Nielsen

2017

Sustainability

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Land-based production provides societies with indispensable goods such as food, feed, fibre, and energy. Yet, with economic globalisation and global population growth, the environmental and social trade-offs of their production are ever more complex. This is particularly so since land use changes are increasingly embedded in networks of long-distance flows of, e.g., material, energy, and information. The resulting scientific and governance challenge is captured in the emerging telecoupling framework addressing socioeconomic and environmental interactions and feedbacks between distal human-environment systems. Understanding telecouplings, however, entails a number of fundamental analytical problems. When dealing with global connectivity, a central question is how and where to draw system boundaries between coupled systems. In this article, we explore the analytical implications of setting system boundaries in the study of a recent telecoupled land use change: the expansion of Chinese banana plantation investments in Luang Namtha Province, Laos. Based on empirical material from fieldwork in Laos in 2014 and 2015, and drawing on key concepts from the 'systems thinking' literature, we illustrate how treating the system and its boundaries as epistemological constructs enable us to capture the differentiated involvement of actors, as well as the socio-economic and environmental effects of this land use change. In discussing our results, the need for more explicit attention to the trade-offs and implications of scale and boundary choices when defining systems is emphasised.

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On the System. Boundary Choices, Implications, and Solutions in Telecoupling Land Use Change Research

Friis

Nielsen

2017

Sustainability

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“…Scholars have emphasized the need for LSS to engage with relational understandings of place and space found in critical human and economic geography (e.g., Massey 1991, Henderson et al 2002, Jessop et al 2008) to move beyond, for example, hierarchically nested scale conceptualizations that often result in a conflation of spatial scale with agency . Others have stressed that places and placebased change should always be analyzed as the result of the (social) relations, interactions, and processes that connect them to other places (Mansfield et al 2010, Niewöhner et al 2016. That "places are processes too" (Massey 1991:29) is increasingly acknowledged by scholars working on urban dynamics and landuse change, who argue for a recognition of the mutually constitutive processes linking specific urban and rural places regardless of their geographical location (Seitzinger et al 2012, Seto et al 2012, Güneralp et al 2013, Qureshi and Haase 2014.…”

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“…With the banana case in mind, we could, for example, have turned to the global production network framework from economic geography (Henderson et al 2002, Challies 2008, Coe and Yeung 2015 for analyzing the economic telecoupling identified, as is increasingly done in LSS (e.g., Galvan-Miyoshi et al 2015, Hauge 2016. The global production network offers a comprehensive framework for understanding flows and distribution of power and value, as well as the social, institutional, and territorial embeddedness of actors in transnational production networks (Coe and Yeung 2015).…”

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Land-use change in a telecoupled world: the relevance and applicability of the telecoupling framework in the case of banana plantation expansion in Laos

Friis¹,

Nielsen²

2017

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“…Researchers have explored consumer preferences in developing markets for foods that are produced, transported or stored using sustainable methods (Loureiro et al , 2002; Ali et al , 2010; Gao et al , 2020). Consumers play a major role in bringing about more sustainable food production through their food choices, such that agriculture in these economies has shifted from a “production orientation” to a “consumer orientation,” through which more affluent consumers may demand food products that can improve the livelihoods of farmers and the environment (Caswell and Siny, 2007; Hauge, 2016; Jaffee et al , 2018).…”

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Urban Vietnamese consumers’ preferences for attributes of sustainably produced rice

Trang

Kopp

Tú

et al. 2023

JCM

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Purpose The purpose of the present research is to examine the comparative values that urban Vietnamese consumers place on attributes of rice that is produced using environmentally friendly methods. The authors consider the impacts that this may have on the livelihoods of rural Vietnamese small farmers. Rice is an “impure public good” that includes both “private” and “public” attributes that consumers consider in their purchase decisions. Consumers make tradeoffs between environmentally and socially beneficial practices (public goods) and perceptions of product quality (private goods). The authors used latent class modeling to investigate the values associated with attributes of rice that is produced using sustainable farming practices. Design/methodology/approach The authors used a discrete choice experimental design in which consumers stated their choices among combinations of rice attributes. The survey provided responses from 360 urban Vietnamese consumers and allowed to estimate the preferences and nonpecuniary values for rice grown using different levels of environmentally beneficial production methods. Findings The results identify two segments of rice consumers: one group of consumers who are sensitive to price and the other group who are sensitive to environmental issues. The individual characteristics are reflected in the choices of production methods and in the willingness to pay for environmentally beneficial outcomes of those methods. Research limitations/implications Given the number of independent variables measured, the sample was relatively small, such that confirmatory statistical methods were inconclusive. However, the authors used multiple analytical tools that provide corroboration of the significant determinants of the utility functions for the two segments. Practical implications The results provide directions for production of rice at a national level, as well as practical implications for consumer-oriented communications. Social implications Results suggest that the emerging middle class of Vietnamese consumers are willing to pay more for rice that is produced using methods that are beneficial to the environment. Results also indicate challenges to provide sustainably-produced rice to poorer groups of consumers. Originality/value The study provides important context for consumer preferences within emerging economies. This also adds to a growing literature that uses the choice experiment method to estimate consumer valuation of the outcomes of various agricultural practices.

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Mind the GAP: Vietnamese Rice Farmers and Distal Markets

Cited by 5 publications

References 18 publications

On the System. Boundary Choices, Implications, and Solutions in Telecoupling Land Use Change Research

On the System. Boundary Choices, Implications, and Solutions in Telecoupling Land Use Change Research

Land-use change in a telecoupled world: the relevance and applicability of the telecoupling framework in the case of banana plantation expansion in Laos

Urban Vietnamese consumers’ preferences for attributes of sustainably produced rice

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