Between necessity and compulsion: opium poppy cultivation and the exigencies of survival in Badakhshan, Afghanistan

Sammanfattning

Drawing on long-term fieldwork in Badakhshan, a borderland province in the northeast of Afghanistan, the paper explores the role that opium poppy cultivation has played in a marginal high-altitude economy. Framed by the analytic of 'narco-frontiers' and the puzzle of the persistence of small farmers in uneven agrarian transitions, the paper investigates the diversity of market and non-market institutions that operate across the means of production of opium. Rather than seeing opium poppy production as the vanguard of an agrarian transition, it is suggested that it is more of a rearguard action to ensure survival.

Nyckelord

opium; agrarian change; institutional diversity; mountain economies

Publicerad i

The Journal of Peasant Studies
2024, volym: 51, nummer: 4, sidor: 902-921
Utgivare: ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR AND FRANCIS LTD

SLU författare

• Pain, Adam

  • Institutionen för stad och land, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
    

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Ekonomisk geografi

Publikationens identifierare

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2023.2216145

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