[en] The agrarian transition, with its rapid growth in land-based investments, has radically altered agrarian and forest landscapes across the Mekong Region. These processes were enabled and accelerated by choices of actors in the public and private sectors with the aim of alleviating poverty and boosting socioeconomic development. We examine to what extent
these goals were achieved and for whom, with a focus on poverty alleviation, gender equality, and forest conservation. Our descriptive assessment shows that the sustainability outcomes of the agrarian transition offer a highly variegated picture that is often not reflected in national level statistics used for monitoring the distance to target towards achieving the 2030 Agenda. Based on our findings, we sketch pathways for a more sustainable agrarian transition in the region. These pathways are explored in greater detail in three framing papers of the special issue “Agrarian Change in the Mekong Region: Pathways towards Sustainable Land Systems’.
Disciplines :
Agriculture & agronomy Human geography & demography
Author, co-author :
Ehrensperger, Albrecht ; Centre for Development and Environment (CDE), University of Bern, Switzerland
Nanhthavong, Vong; Centre for Development and Environment (CDE), University of Bern, Vientiane office, Lao PDR
Beban, Alice ; School of People, Environment and Planning, Massey University, New Zealand
Gironde, Christophe; Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland
Diepart, Jean-Christophe ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département GxABT > Modélisation et développement ; The School for Field Studies, Siem Reap, Cambodia
Scurrah, Natalia; Regional Center for Social Science and Sustainable Development, Chiang Mai University, Thailand
Nguyen, Anh-Thu ; Centre for Development and Environment (CDE), University of Bern, Vientiane office, Lao PDR
Cole, Robert; Mekong Region Land Governance, Vientiane, Lao PDR
Hett, Cornelia ; CDE
Ingalls, Micah; Mekong Region Land Governance
Language :
English
Title :
The agrarian transition in the Mekong Region: pathways towards sustainable land systems
DEZA - Direktion für Entwicklung und Zusammenarbeit [CH] LuxDev [LU]
Funding text :
This work was supported by the Mekong Region Land Governance project (MRLG). MRLG is a project of the Government
of Switzerland, through the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), with co-financing from the
Government of Germany and the Government of Luxembourg.
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