We are witnessing a new momentum in critical agrarian studies. In the last two decades, multiple crises around food, feed, fuel, natural resources extractivism, land, finance, labor, migration, environment and human rights have converged. All of these contribute to global resource grabbing in an era of capitalism and climate change which affect the most vulnerable…
Author: Phan Phuong Hao
Hao P. Phan holds PhD from the School of International Development, University of East Anglia. She does research in Gender, Environment and Development. She's particular interested in and has applied a Feminist Political Ecology approach and Global Environmental Justice lens in her current research. She has published papers in both Vietnamese and English, and is an active member of the Asian Association of Women's Studies, Global Environmental Justice group, and Collective of Agrarian Scholars-Activists from the South (casasouth.org).
Covid-19, China-Vietnam border closure and its effects on dragon fruit export
It is probably a good time for an agriculture-based economy like Vietnam to rethink informal cross-border trade and the export of raw agricultural products. In the case of Vietnam, producing more and exporting cheap raw products only for China – although it’s an expanding market – yet tends to be less reliable and sustainable.