Community Initiatives and Local Networks among K’ho Cil Smallholder Coffee Farmers in the Central Highlands of Vietnam: A Case Study

Over the last two decades, coffee growers in Vietnam have faced the same problems as farmers all over the world. Ethnographic research among the community of K’ho Cil coffee growers in Lam Dong Province from 2016 to 2018 documented local initiatives to deal with the problems through the establishmen...

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Published inJournal of Asian and African studies (Leiden) Vol. 55; no. 6; pp. 880 - 895
Main Author Truong, Hang Thi Thu
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London, England SAGE Publications 01.09.2020
SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC
Subjects
Agricultural commodities
Agriculture
Case studies
Climate change
Coffee
Community research
Deregulation
Economic conditions
Entrepreneurship
Ethnographic research
Ethnography
Farmers
Global local relationship
Local area networks
Modes of production
Social networks
Supply chains
Tourism
Vietnam
social network
Smallholder coffee producers
community initiatives
K’ho Cil
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Summary:Over the last two decades, coffee growers in Vietnam have faced the same problems as farmers all over the world. Ethnographic research among the community of K’ho Cil coffee growers in Lam Dong Province from 2016 to 2018 documented local initiatives to deal with the problems through the establishment of a K’ho Coffee network, revitalization of traditional production patterns, local integration into the global coffee commodity chain and agritourism entrepreneurship. Conceptualizing the way local K’ho Coffee growers generated and implemented the initiatives, this paper argues that by utilizing their social network, local farmers revitalized their economic production. Negotiating a decent collective position in the world system of the coffee commodity chain offers them a chance to survive the influx of economic deregulation and avert the impacts of climate change.
ISSN:0021-9096
1745-2538
DOI:10.1177/0021909620935427