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URL:https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/embracing-and-engaging-farm-to
 urism-farmers-perspective-contemporary-vietnam/
SUMMARY:Embracing and Engaging Farm Tourism from Farmers’ Perspective in 
 contemporary Vietnam
DESCRIPTION:\n	Hang Thi Thu Truong (Lecturer\, Faculty of Anthropology\,  
 University of Social Sciences and Humanities - Ho Chi Minh City\; HYI Visi
 ting Scholar)\n	Chair: Andrew Gordon (Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor
  of History\, Harvard University)\n	Discussant: Merry White (Professor\,
  Department of Anthropology\, Boston University)\n\n	Co-sponsored with the
  Harvard University Asia Center\n\n\n	This talk presents my study on the d
 evelopment of farm tourism in three rural regions in Vietnam. Farmers who 
 run the farms (grape\, coffee and rice farms in Ninh Thuan\, Lam Dong and 
 Dong Thap provinces respectively) have been applying an eco-friendly appro
 ach as their strategic alternative agricultural production. Moreover\, the
 y have all converged in the idea of turning their farms into tourist attra
 ctions for both domestic and international visitors. Ethnographic research
  on farm tourism at these localities explores the ways in which the farmer
 s mobilize their resources and create tour programs which make it possible
  for visitors to learn and experience organic agriculture\, to understand 
 this neo-traditional way of cultivation\, to taste their produce and event
 ually possibly become their customers. These observations will reveal the 
 dynamics and effects of farmers’ rationality on their farming patterns\,
  and their perceptions of contemporary environmental and social issues in 
 Vietnam. In conclusion\, my research argues that agritourism in Vietnam is
  a locally constructed phenomenon emerging out of the farmer-hosts’ resp
 onses to local realities and domestic concerns over modernized food produc
 tion and the forces of market economy in Vietnam.
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