Farm-to-Market Road (FMR) in Agdangan, Quezon: A Janusfaced Development Program?
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This study demonstrates how Japanese and Filipino aid authorities facilitate a Japan Official Development Assistance (ODA)-funded Farm-toMarket Road (FMR) subproject as a solution aiming to achieve the Philippines’
overall poverty reduction, agrarian reform, and social development goals. Specifically, it examines their general motives, roles, interactions, and procedures during the project management process. It also analyzes how
the FMR solves agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs) issues and challenges. Drawing on Tania Murray Li’s “The Will to Improve” framework, the study analyzes how positioning the FMR project management process within the logic of neoliberal governmentality uncovers an exciting perspective on the claim that it failed. The FMR fails when ARBs do not improve their overall wellbeing from this perspective. It utilizes study instruments such as government sources, online questionnaires, semi-structured interview questions, and focus group discussions (FGDs) to determine Japanese and Filipino aid authorities’ motives, discourses, rationalities, and techniques.
It shows how the FMR is Janus-faced, which is usually defined as sharply contrasting policy aspects and deliberate deceptiveness. On the surface, FMR promotes economic growth, mutual understanding, and reciprocity. However,
a critical perspective reveals that its permeation of market logic allowed the non-poor sector to access disproportionate benefits.
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เนื้อหาและข้อมูลที่ตีพิมพ์ลงในวารสารมนุษย์กับสังคม ถือเป็นข้อคิดเห็นและความรับผิดชอบโดยตรงของผู้เขียนซึ่งกองบรรณาธิการวารสารไม่จำเป็นต้องเห็นด้วยหรือร่วมรับผิดชอบใดๆ
บทความ ข้อมูล เนื้อหา รูปภาพ ฯลฯ ที่ได้รับการตีพิมพ์ในวารสารมนุษย์กับสังคม ถือเป็นลิขสิทธิ์ของวารสาร หากบุคคลหรือหน่วยงานใดต้องการนำทั้งหมดหรือส่วนหนึ่งส่วนใดไปเผยแพร่ต่อต้องอ้างอิงวาสาร
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