Journal of Rural Studies, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 106, P. 103201 - 103201
Published: Feb. 1, 2024
This study systematically explores the agrarian questions of capital, labor and gender in fast-growing post-conflict economies Laos Rwanda. In both countries, export-led agricultural intensification is reshaping rural livelihoods. The article uses mixed methods fieldwork to re-think from ground up. It discusses methodological implications taking such a bottom-up perspective provides tools for operationalization. empirical application then traces effects manifestations capitalist development political everyday lives people coffee heartlands (the Bolaven Plateau) Rwanda (Nyamasheke district). To this end, local accumulation strategies as well changing relations their women female-headed households are explored using comparative survey qualitative interview data. findings reveal mounting land pressures, widespread commodification subsistence growing social differentiation, although lesser extent Laos. There, petty commodity producers increasingly expand by multiplication while many subject reproduction squeeze that forces them into classes characterized precarious wage employment. Finally, continue face multiple barriers accumulation, particularly where access often mediated through male family members practice, women's wages lower remain especially vulnerable. concludes neither dead nor resolved but need be re-thought address pressing challenges late development.
Language: Английский