Surviving cassava: smallholder farmer strategies for coping with market volatility in Cambodia

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dc.citation.issue1
dc.citation.volume18
dc.contributor.authorBeban A
dc.contributor.authorGironde C
dc.date.accessioned2024-05-15T00:59:25Z
dc.date.available2024-05-15T00:59:25Z
dc.date.issued2023-03-15
dc.description.abstractCassava has become a ‘must have’ crop for many Cambodian smallholders; yet, the market is volatile and yields are uneven. Drawing on long-term fieldwork in Kampong Thom and Ratanakiri provinces, we analyse how farmers cope with volatility. We argue that multiple pathways have emerged: some farmers have ceased producing cassava; some have expanded production; while most farmers engage in ‘ambivalent repeasantisation’, striving to gain autonomy from market fluctuations through the survival work of everyday gendered labour, including investing family and community labour into cassava, shifting back to food crops, managing debt, and creating relationships with traders, while also imagining a life beyond cassava. Uneven fortunes with cassava contribute to land redistribution, deepening class, gender and ethnic divides. The case of smallholder cassava pathways in Cambodia shows us that agrarian transition is neither linear nor unidimensional, and dynamics of ‘depeasantisation’, ‘repeasantisation’, and ‘intensification’ through crop booms cannot be assumed a priori.
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dc.edition.edition2023
dc.format.pagination109-127
dc.identifier.citationBeban A, Gironde C. (2023). Surviving cassava: smallholder farmer strategies for coping with market volatility in Cambodia. Journal of Land Use Science. 18. 1. (pp. 109-127).
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/1747423X.2023.2190744
dc.identifier.eissn1747-4248
dc.identifier.elements-typejournal-article
dc.identifier.issn1747-423X
dc.identifier.urihttps://mro.massey.ac.nz/handle/10179/69564
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherTaylor and Francis Group
dc.publisher.urihttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1747423X.2023.2190744
dc.relation.isPartOfJournal of Land Use Science
dc.rights(c) 2023 The Author/s
dc.rightsCC BY 4.0
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectAgrarian transition
dc.subjectCrop booms
dc.subjectCambodia
dc.subjectCassava
dc.subjectSmallholder farmers
dc.titleSurviving cassava: smallholder farmer strategies for coping with market volatility in Cambodia
dc.typeJournal article
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