Recent advances in global production network theory, known as GPN 2.0, provide a theoretically sophisticated framework for understanding the articulation of global production systems with regional development trajectories. However, this framework was largely derived from lessons out of empirical analyses of the strategic coupling and value capture trajectories of firms in certain manufacturing and service sector ‘hot spots’, primarily in East and Southeast Asia, and its wider applicability for other contexts remains uncertain. This paper aims to address this lacuna by examining the potential for GPN 2.0 to understand regional development trajectories in agricultural production landscapes in the Global South dominated by smallholder-based farms that generate outputs for national and international markets. The distinctive characteristics of smallholders throw up significant challenges for the explanatory applicability of GPN 2.0 for rural development, at least as it has been developed so far. A key challenge is that smallholders cannot be considered equivalent to ‘firms’ as conceived in GPN 2.0. To overcome this problem, this paper argues for bringing a livelihoods perspective to bear on GPN 2.0. We illustrate the usefulness of this approach through reference to a case study of potato contract farming in Maharastra, India.

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全球生产网络、区域发展轨迹和全球南方小农的生计

全球生产网络理论的最新进展，即 GPN 2.0，为理解全球生产系统与区域发展轨迹的衔接提供了一个理论上复杂的框架。然而，该框架主要来自对某些制造业和服务业“热点”（主要是东亚和东南亚）企业的战略耦合和价值捕获轨迹的实证分析的经验教训，其对其他环境的更广泛适用性仍不确定. 本文旨在通过研究 GPN 2.0 了解全球南方农业生产格局中区域发展轨迹的潜力来解决这一空白，该地区以小农为主的农场为国家和国际市场提供产出。小农的独特特征对 GPN 2.0 对农村发展的解释性适用性提出了重大挑战，至少到目前为止已经发展如此。一个关键挑战是不能将小农视为 GPN 2.0 中设想的“公司”。为了克服这个问题，本文主张将生计观点引入 GPN 2.0。我们通过参考印度马哈拉施特拉邦马铃薯合同农业的案例研究来说明这种方法的实用性。本文主张将生计视角应用于 GPN 2.0。我们通过参考印度马哈拉施特拉邦马铃薯合同农业的案例研究来说明这种方法的实用性。本文主张将生计视角应用于 GPN 2.0。我们通过参考印度马哈拉施特拉邦马铃薯合同农业的案例研究来说明这种方法的实用性。