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Escape crops are a category of crops integral to escape agriculture, a form of agricultural practice whose socio-geographic characteristics and social impacts facilitate the efforts of certain populations to live independently of centralized state control.[1][2] The term is often used specifically to describe the crops used by populations living in the mountainous regions of mainland Southeast Asia, the most notable example being the Zomian people, although they are also used in communities outside of Southeast Asia.
Crops that fall into this category include, but are not limited to: oats, barley, quick-growing millets, buckwheat, cabbage, turnips, roots and tubers, taro, yams, and the sago palm.[1] They are typically characterized by being adaptive to harsh climates, high in nutrition and caloric value, able to grow at high altitudes, able to blend in with surrounding vegetation, and flexible in terms of planting and harvesting time frames.[1]
- ^ a b c Scott, James C. (2009). "State Evasion, State Prevention: The Culture and Agriculture of Escape". The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia. Yale University Press. pp. 178–219. doi:10.23943/princeton/9780691197241.001.0001.
- ^ Maat, Harro; Pinas, Nicholaas; van Andel, Tinde (2023-09-08). "The role of crop diversity in escape agriculture; rice cultivation among Maroon communities in Suriname". Plants, People, Planet. 6 (5): 1142–1149. doi:10.1002/ppp3.10435. ISSN 2572-2611.