Agrarian Transition in Vietnam and Thailand: Lessons for Other Southeast Asia Countries

Document type:
Seminar video

Date of seminar:
15th January 2020

Location:
Chiang Mai University, Thailand

Seminar speakers:
Christophe Gironde (Senior lecturer, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva)

Discussant: Professor Emeritus Philip Hirsch
Moderator: Daniel Hayward (Chiang Mai University)

Event description:
Vietnam and Thailand have both encountered an agrarian transition that overall is deemed as rather successful with regards to productive performance and the betterment of rural livelihoods. How crucial have land tenure and land policy been to this process? And what other factors have been decisive?

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