Turning Land into Capital, Turning People into Labor: Primitive Accumulation and the Arrival of Large-Scale Economic Land Concessions in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic

In recent years the Lao government has provided many foreign investors with large-scale economic land concessions to develop plantations. These concessions have resulted in significant alterations of landscapes and ecological processes, greatly reduced local access to resources through enclosing com...

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Main Author: Ian G. Baird
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: New Proposals Publishing Society 2011-10-01
Series:New Proposals
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Online Access:https://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/newproposals/article/view/2264