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agrarian change
agrarian transformation
agricultural productivity analysis
asia
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comparative agrarian studies
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food security policy
land tenure systems
rural livelihoods Asia
smallholder
smallholder adaptation East Southeast Asia

Product details

  • ISBN 9781041175933
  • Weight: 650g
  • Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 01 Dec 2025
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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Asian Smallholders in Comparative Perspective provides the first multicountry, inter-disciplinary analysis of the single most important social and economic formation in the Asian countryside: the smallholder. Based on ten core country chapters, the volume describes and explains the persistence, transformations, functioning and future of the smallholder and smallholdings across East and Southeast Asia. As well as providing a source book for scholars working on agrarian change in the region, it also engages with a number of key current areas of debate, including: the nature and direction of the agrarian transition in Asia, and its distinctiveness vis à vis transitions in the global North; the persistence of the smallholder notwithstanding deep and rapid structural change; and the question of the efficiency and productivity of smallholder-based farming set against concerns over global and national food security.
About

Eric C. Thompson is an anthropologist whose research spans Southeast Asia, particularly Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand. He is the author of Unsettling Absences: Urbanism in Rural Malaysia and co-editor of Southeast Asian Anthropologies: National Traditions and Transnational Practices.
Jamie Gillen is a human geographer of Southeast Asia, focusing on Vietnam. He is the author of Entrepreneurialism and Tourism in Contemporary Vietnam and his current work is on the rural dimensions of Southeast Asian cities.
Jonathan Rigg is a professor of human geography in the School of Geographical Sciences at the University of Bristol. His work focuses on questions of agrarian, livelihood and environmental change in Southeast and South Asia and he has undertaken fieldwork in Laos, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam. Jonathan has authored more than 100 papers and ten books and is currently researching extreme weather and outdoor work in Vietnam and completing a book on longitudinal change in rural Thailand.