We Are As Flexible As Rubber!: Livelihood Strategies, Diversity and the Local Institutional Setting of Rubber Small Holders in Kerala, South India
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1st ed.
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8173048036
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276p.
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Since the beginning of the 1990s, the Indian natural rubber sector has been affected by trends toward trade liberalisation, a reduced role of the State, and organizational reforms. Rubber cultivators in Kerala--around 1 million holders cultivating an average 0.5 ha of rubber plantation--have been affected by these processes in different ways. It is hypothesised that growers--especially the ones located in agro-ecologically marginal rubber areas--are coping with ...
