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Agricultural Modernization and Rural Livelihoods in Rice Farming Villages of Laos 70454981 Goto, Kenta 後藤, 健太 Bounlouane, Douangngeune open access 関西大学 Kansai University This paper looks at how rice cultivating households in Laos have been affected by policies to transform and upgrade the subsistent oriented sector into a dynamic and competitive one through intensification and commercialization, and how livelihood strategies of these households in turn have affected such modernization goals set by the government. While overall rice output has grown significantly over the past few decades, market institutions pertinent to the rice sector remain critically weak, constraining modernization in the rice sector. Contract farming has been promoted within this context, which have led to some positive results for participating households. There has been, however, no significant evidence of a full-fledged sectoral transformation. This could be due to pervasive coordination failures amidst imperfect market institutions, providing disincentives to farmers to commit themselves to livelihood strategies based on such modernized rice cultivation practices. This is a Working Paper which was eventually accepted as an article published by Taylor & Francis in Canadian Journal of Development Studies on January 11, 2017, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02255189.2017.1263553. Kansai University Subsidy for Supporting Young Scholars, 2013 平成25年度関西大学若手研究者育成経費 Economic Society of Kansai University 関西大学経済学会 2014-11 eng technical report NA http://hdl.handle.net/10112/10783 https://kansai-u.repo.nii.ac.jp/records/646 10.1080/02255189.2017.1263553 Economic Society of Kansai University Working Paper Series F-72 1 26 https://kansai-u.repo.nii.ac.jp/record/646/files/KU-0020-20141100-00.pdf application/pdf 304.8 kB 2019-05-20