The social relations of catfish production in Vietnam

Geoforum

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 567-577

  Belton, Ben ^a   Little, David C ^a   Sinh, Le Xuan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

^b CAN THO UNIVERSITY   (Viet Nam)

Author keywords

Agrarian change; Aquaculture; Class; Development; Social relations; Vietnam

Indexed keywords

AGRARIAN CHANGE; BUREAUCRACY; CLASS; ECONOMIC GROWTH; FISH CULTURE; FISHERY PRODUCTION; STATE-LOCAL RELATIONS;

MEKONG DELTA; VIET NAM;

PANGASIUS;

EID: 79960917466     PISSN: 00167185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2011.02.008     Document Type: Article

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