台灣紅藜新興經濟中的「小農」製造？災後離鄉的原住民農產業參與及困境

2009年莫拉克風災重建已十年有餘，幾千名原鄉居民無奈選擇異地安置，本研究檢視災後離鄉的原住民族人如何調適生計策略，聚焦紅藜新興經濟之興起相關的傳統農耕產業化過程，然離鄉農人們面對耕地不足的災後處境，如何突破限制參與這門好生意？紅藜從輔助作物轉型為強調營養價值的超級穀物，原鄉小農採取哪些調適戰略來回應市場價格起伏不定和技術挑戰？一片搶種競爭中，紅藜真是原鄉永續好生意嗎？本研究看待離鄉耕耘為一複雜的自然－社會技術組合來理解屏東原鄉族人參與農耕產業化發展所涉及的災後移動、競爭與潛在矛盾，指出企業契作生產實踐不易的困境，並嘗試提問新興農作中的「小農」製造過程。

關鍵字

災後重建；原住民；社群韌性；小農；紅藜；莫拉克颱風；自然－社會技術組合

並列摘要

More than a decade has passed since the 2009 Typhoon Morakot. Several thousand Indigenous people were forced to accept collective relocation given the disastrous effects of the typhoon. This research examines how the displaced Indigenous people adapt their livelihood strategies to the new normal driven by recovery, with a focus on the emerging interest in growing red quinoa as a new crop economy. It raises questions about how the Indigenous farmers participate in the crop economy while they are mostly lacking access to farmlands after relocation? How have the Indigenous farmers responded to the challenges of meeting the demand and the unstable price as a result of competition? This research investigates the complicated movements, competitions, and internal conflicts. It sees the particular farming away from home in the context of post-disaster recovery as a natural-sociotechnical arrangement and examines the practices in which the technique is performed in general and looks into the contract-farming of quinoa growing in Indigenous townships in particular. Eventually, it calls into question the construction of the imagined ＂small farmers＂ by the market as shaped by the particular contract farming.