Qinhong Xu is a researcher with the Environmental Policy Group at Wageningen University, Netherlands. She earned her PhD from the Water Resources Management Group at the same university, focusing on rural water governance in China. Her research includes political ecology, governmentality, and science and technology studies in water and environmental governance. Currently, she investigates the…
Qinhong Xu, CASAS’ member, has just published an article in the Journal of Peasant Studies with Rutgerd Boelens & Gert Jan Veldwisch Abstract: The article investigates the evolution of rural water governance in the People’s Republic of China through a historical review of its water governance transformations, including the ideology, institutions, and discourses. It is…
CASAS’ member, Phuong Hao Phan, has published a brief report with Yi’En Cheng in Asian Population Studies. Abstract: Vietnam and China have a shared history of collaboration and conflict, with economic interdependence becoming an important pillar in recent decades. China’s larger worldwide policy of economic and cultural expansion (or the ‘go-out strategy’) is crucial in…
Agrarian Conversations webinar series: episode 2Global food regimes and ChinaWednesday, 28 April 2021, 15:00-16:30 Amsterdam (CET) The second episode in Agrarian Conversations webinar series will be on “Global food regimes and China”. What relationship does China have to current food regime transitioning, with the changing geographies of production, circulation and consumption of global food commodities, and the…
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.