The price of spice: Ethnic minority livelihoods and cardamom commodity chains in upland northern Vietnam

Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 388-403

  Tugault Lafleur, Claire ^a   Turner, Sarah ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cardamom; Commodity chains; Hmong; Livelihoods; Vietnam

Indexed keywords

CAPITAL; COMMODITY MARKET; COMMODITY PRICE; CULTIVATION; DECISION MAKING; ETHNIC MINORITY; HARVESTING; NATIONAL TRADE; SUBSISTENCE; TUBER; UPLAND REGION;

LAO CAI; VIET NAM;

AMOMUM; ELETTARIA CARDAMOMUM;

EID: 77249178361     PISSN: 01297619     EISSN: 14679493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9493.2009.00376.x     Document Type: Article

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