Tailor-Made Pesticides. Understanding the Pesticides Market in a Productive Agricultural Region of the Cambodian Mekong Delta-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Tailor-Made Pesticides. Understanding the Pesticides Market in a Productive Agricultural Region of the Cambodian Mekong Delta

Published:2024-06-08 Issue:2 Volume:17 Page:311-347
ISSN:1973-3739
Container-title:Global Environment
language:en
Short-container-title:Global Environment

Author:

Bureau-Point Eve¹,Venot Jean-Philippe²,Heourn Sreytouch³

Affiliation:

1. Eve Bureau-Point is a research fellow at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS, Centre Norbert Elias, Marseille). She is an anthropologist and conducts research in France and Cambodia on the social lives of pesticides (production, market, regulation, uses, waste and residue management). She studies the social construction of environmental health problems, at different phases of their circulation. Email:

2. Jean-Philippe Venot is director of research at the French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD). He has an interdisciplinary profile and draws from the field of political ecology, STS, and the anthropology of development to critically examine and reshape discourses and daily practices of agriculture and water governance in countries of the global South. Email:

3. Sreytouch Heourn is a Master’s student of Earth and Water Under Global Change (AWARE-WATER), IDIL program, Université de Montpellier, France. Email:

Abstract

This article draws on approaches in the anthropology of things and the anthropology of capitalism. It brings to light fragments of the supply chains of pesticides in one of the most productive agricultural regions in Cambodia. Based on an ethnographic study conducted from November 2021 to December 2022 with farmers, petty retailers and marketing agents enrolled in the pesticides sector, this article shows how a study of local interactions between pesticides and these actors brings out multi-level data, ranging from the local marketing strategies to transnational manufacturing of pesticides. It highlights various stages that are taking place between small-scale farmers and industrial players to redefine tailor-made pesticides and fuel the local market. This article was published open access under a CC BY licence: https://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0 .

Publisher

Liverpool University Press