Rural Poverty Reduction by China’s Agricultural Investment in Northern Lao PDR

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10.2991/assehr.k.201023.107How to use a DOI?

Keywords

China’s Agricultural investment, Employment, Social Service, Poverty Reduction

Abstract

Foreign agricultural investment has contributed to poverty reduction in developing countries. China’s growing agricultural investment in Laos has attracted more concern around the world. This study contributes to these ongoing efforts by investigating China’s agricultural investment in the context of rubber and banana plantation in Northern Lao PDR, including household income, employment, infrastructure and community service. The conclusions state that China’s agricultural investors played a particularly active role to local poverty reduction, China’s agricultural enterprises accessed to land right by signing land contract and providing payment to land owners. Nearly 80% of employees were local farmers. Chinese enterprises had built roads, hospitals, irrigation systems, presented clothes and food to the poor, training agricultural skills in community level. It is suggested that strengthening the mutual understanding and capacities of enterprises and farmers are essential to enhance the China’s agricultural investment and locally rural poverty reduction.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Yan Jin
AU  - Yan Zeng
AU  - Lu Feng
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/11/06
TI  - Rural Poverty Reduction by China’s Agricultural Investment in Northern Lao PDR
BT  - Proceedings of the 2020 5th International Conference on Modern Management and Education Technology (MMET 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 558
EP  - 564
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.201023.107
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.201023.107
ID  - Jin2020
ER  -