Farmers’ decisions to adapt to flash floods and landslides in the Northern Mountainous Regions of Vietnam

Pham, Nga Thanh Thi; Nong, Duy; Garschagen, Matthias

doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2019.109672

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“…While they do not directly manage financial resources dedicated to adaptation, they act as an intermediary between the State, agronomic innovation units, and the farmers (see Figure 2); thus, they can be an important conduit for the flow of information, knowledge, techniques, and agricultural inputs (seeds, fertilizer, crop protection products, etc.) that help improve agricultural practices in the face of climate change impacts [30,39]. Our study in Lao Cai also confirms that the agricultural extension workers collect agronomic data and identify problems that local farmers are facing.…”

Section: Commune Levelsupporting

confidence: 74%

“…Therefore, climate change is rarely the exclusive motivation to actions that are part of an adaptation effort. Instead, adaptation practices are often embedded in a broader context that must be taken into account to grasp the factual issues at stake [39]. The array of factors connected or not to climate change adaptation are useful indicators to be explored in order to identify which funding could be used in the field to foster adaptation and how non-adaptation-labeled resources are often mobilized.…”

Section: Reaction or Adaptation?mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Endogenous adaptations frequently observed in the Vietnamese agricultural sector include experimenting new crops; changing the cropping pattern to a climate-change-suited cropping system (shifting away from vulnerable systems such as rice to hardier plants like cassava); adjusting planting time (changing cropping calendars and delaying planting or harvesting earlier), among others [36,39,69]. While all of these responses can be qualified as endogenous, in the sense that they are all communityor individual-level adaptation actions that are specific to and occur within a local system, they do not mobilize only local knowledge and resources.…”

Section: The Continuum Between Exogenous and Endogenous Adaptationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Three Dialectics of Adaptation Finance in Vietnam

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The goal of this paper is to analyze the complex institutional landscape of adaptation finance in Vietnam, a middle-income country highly vulnerable to the impact of climate change. While resources from international organizations and national authorities occupy a prominent position in adaptation funding, the use of local resources that directly or indirectly support adaptation practices is also an important factor to consider. We hypothesize that it is that interplay between official climate change finance on the one hand and local social dynamics on the other hand that shapes the structure of adaptation funding. These very particular financing circuits consequently determine the kind of adaptation actions that are actually implemented. The paper unfolds the adaptation finance flows at all scales by using qualitative field studies, technical and legal reports, and a wide-ranging literature on adaptation project financing, and thus identifies three types of dialectical tensions that might hinder Vietnamese institutional readiness for adaptation finance: the adaptation/development financing nexus, the adaptation/reaction financing behaviors, and the endogenous/exogenous financing dichotomy. Ultimately, the paper derives from these dialectical tensions within the architecture and functioning of adaptation finance key takeaway messages for a prospective analysis of adaptation funding that better informs adaptation finance policies.

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Section: Commune Levelsupporting

confidence: 74%

Section: Reaction or Adaptation?mentioning

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Section: The Continuum Between Exogenous and Endogenous Adaptationmentioning

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“…On the other hand, a financial income derived from the planting of acacia does not manifest until 5 years or longer after planting, and this is dependent upon the conditions of fields in which they are planted. Local cultural beliefs and practices are an essential element in understanding the motivations behind the people's responses to soil erosion and soil degradation [99]. Many farmers indicate strong concerns related to their ability to learn from other farmers, adhering to a kind of communal knowledge, as it were.…”

Section: From Perception To Adaptive Measures Regarding the Soil Erosmentioning

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“…Further efforts to integrate local adaptation strategies within local and district government policy will increase the adaptive capacity of the local people, while also contributing to the wider sustainable development goals of the region [100]. According to Pham et al [99] to facilitate scientific applications in farming activities that include the implementation of innovative farming methods, extension officers are considered to be the connecting link between the scientific community and farmers. However, a word of caution is needed here, that it is necessary for these relationships to be reciprocal between all the various parties involved.…”

Section: From Perception To Adaptive Measures Regarding the Soil Erosmentioning

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Understanding Indigenous Farming Systems in Response to Climate Change: An Investigation into Soil Erosion in the Mountainous Regions of Central Vietnam

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Soil erosion is a considerable concern in the upland areas of Central Vietnam. This situation is most serious in regions, where the terrain is sloped and subjected to heavy rainfall. Our research was conducted in a mountainous area, belonging to Central Vietnam, the area of Song Kon commune in the Dong Giang district. The objective of this study is first to estimate the impact of soil erosion risk in these areas, and second to assess the capacity of farming systems which are based on indigenous knowledge (IK) to respond to soil erosion. Our data were collected by Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) and processed using Geographical Information System (GIS) methods. We then interpreted this research using the Universal Soil Loss Equation (USLE) in order to calculate the soil erosion rate. The Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) and the Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI) were also used as measurements to compare the difference of land surface covers between different farming systems. The results showed that the lowest soil erosion rate was found in the narrow valley regions, which are populated by both agricultural and residential areas. On the other hand, soil erosion was extremely high in the more northerly quadrant of our research area. Our findings also indicate that local farmers are highly aware of soil erosion, which has positively influenced the adoption of adaptation measures (AMs) in their agricultural activities. The most common AMs are as follows: changes in cropping patterns, the adjustments of their planting calendars, the use of native varieties, and intercropping methods. These AMs are mediated by the cultural observances of the local ethnic minority peoples in relation to their IK. We have concluded that when farmers apply IK in their farming systems, the soil erosion rate tends to decrease as compared with non-indigenous knowledge (NIK) practices. We hope to bring a better understanding of the processes that shape farmers’ AMs and thereby to develop well-targeted adaptation policies that can then be applied at the local level. Our findings may be instrumental in future adaptation planning and policies in regard to climate change, and that they will help to increase awareness not only in matters of the soil erosion but also in other interconnected aspects of climate change in these areas.

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Indigenous farmers' perception of climate change and the use of local knowledge to adapt to climate variability: A case study of Vietnam

Ahmad

2021

J of Intl Development

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This research investigated indigenous farmers' perception of climate change and the use of local knowledge for climate change adaptation. Survey and focus group discussion methods were used to collect data from 362 respondents. Logit model was employed to determine the factors influencing farmers' perception of climate change. Results show that farmers are aware of the climate variability citing hotter weather and unpredictable rain. Farmers use local knowledge and local agricultural practices to adapt to climate change. Moreover, farmers' perception of climate change was determined by many factors such as education, location and income. The results suggest that policymakers should consider local knowledge, farmers' perception of climate change and other contributing factors when designing and formulating policies for indigenous farmers.

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Farmers’ decisions to adapt to flash floods and landslides in the Northern Mountainous Regions of Vietnam

Cited by 42 publications

References 44 publications

The Three Dialectics of Adaptation Finance in Vietnam

The Three Dialectics of Adaptation Finance in Vietnam

Understanding Indigenous Farming Systems in Response to Climate Change: An Investigation into Soil Erosion in the Mountainous Regions of Central Vietnam

Indigenous farmers' perception of climate change and the use of local knowledge to adapt to climate variability: A case study of Vietnam

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