Mark
Vicol
Assistant Professor
Wageningen University
I am Assistant Professor in the Rural Sociology Group at Wageningen University, the Netherlands. My research focuses on the intersections between rural livelihoods, development and agrarian change in South and Southeast Asia. As a critical geographer, I place emphasis on integrative approaches to understanding patterns of change at the intersections of micro-scale rural livelihoods and the macro-scale political-economic structures and social relations that underlie global capitalism. My research interests include the changing relationships between land, agriculture, rural livelihoods and inequality; the livelihood implications for rural households of modern agricultural global value chains, and the politics of value chain development; the relationship between changing livelihood patterns and food security / food sovereignty; and broader political economy questions about patterns of agrarian accumulation and differentiation and the future of small farmers and agriculture in the region.