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Learn MoreAgricultural production and trade are central to Chinese economic development and the livelihoods of millions of people throughout the country. In Chinas southwest Yunnan province, cardamom is an important cash crop that many rural communities cultivate and trade to make an income. This research project will focus on the current cardamom cultivation practices and trade networks in the Yunnan province, to determine how resources are managed and how knowledge is disseminated. My host institution is in the provincial capital of Kunming, but most of my fieldwork will be completed in the southern rural counties of Hekou and Maguan on the Sino-Vietnamese borderlands. I will employ qualitative research methods such as semistructured and unstructured interviews with cultivators, traders, and municipal officials. I expect to learn how cardamom travels throughout the province, how different traders at different scales interact with one another, and what socio-political relationships are present in trade networks.
Sarah Turner
Dylan Putzel
Geography / Geology / Earth science
McGill University
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