Impacts of changes in policy and market conditions on land use, land management and livelihood among farmers in central highlands of Vietnam

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dc.contributor.authorDuc Phuoc, Pham Hongen
dc.contributor.authorHa, Dang Thanhen
dc.contributor.authorThuy, Nguyen Ngocen
dc.contributor.authorVan Du, Leen
dc.contributor.authorHung, Pham Trinhen
dc.contributor.authorEspaldon, Maria Victoria O.en
dc.contributor.authorMagsino, Annielyn O.en
dc.contributor.departmentSustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (SANREM) Knowledgebaseen
dc.coverage.spatialVietnamen
dc.date.accessioned2016-04-19T18:07:45Zen
dc.date.available2016-04-19T18:07:45Zen
dc.date.issued2001en
dc.description.abstractThis study outlines the changes in agricultural policies and market conditions in Vietnam for the last 20 years characterized with gradual decentralization and integration in the global economy. Using a case study approach, the study examines how these institutional changes influence land use and land management and the impacts on the environment and the livelihood systems among members of a local community in the uplands of Vietnam. Preliminary analysis at the local level shows that changes policies and market conditions result in a rapid transformation of the socio-economic and biophysical landscape in this upland community. Large forest area had been converted into commercial agricultural land. Results of the study also show that farmers base their decisions on short-term market expectations rather than on long-term market information. This lends them more vulnerable to greater economic losses in the long term as shown by the behavior of mulberry and coffee production in the study area. Farmers had not only opened new forest land for coffee cultivation but also shifted from mulberry to coffee after 1994 when the price of coffee beans increased. However, there are risks associated with coffee, as a monocrop in a large area such as fluctuation in market prices and environmental degradation. The study provides empirical evidence to the complex interplay of policies and market conditions on land use, land management and livelihood system of the Vietnamese upland farmers. The study raises issues relating to the promotion of sustainable agricultural practices and the need for agricultural land use planning that aims to deal with the fluctuating global market without compromising the welfare of small farmers and landholders.en
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier304en
dc.identifier.citationPaper presented at Sustaining Upland Development in Southeast Asia: Issues, Tools, and Institutions for Local Natural Resources Management Conference, ACCEED, Makati City, Philippines, 27-30 May 2001en
dc.identifier.other304_ImpactsChanges.pdfen
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/65372en
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.subjectDeforestationen
dc.subjectWorld marketsen
dc.subjectLand use planningen
dc.subjectEnvironmental impactsen
dc.subjectLivelihoodsen
dc.subjectLocal policyen
dc.subjectGovernment policyen
dc.subjectLand use managementen
dc.subjectMarketsen
dc.subjectDecentralizationen
dc.subjectAgricultural policiesen
dc.subjectVietnamen
dc.subjectUplandsen
dc.subjectAgricultural expansionen
dc.subjectCoffee cultivationen
dc.subjectMulberryen
dc.subjectMarket conditionsen
dc.subjectParticipatory landscape-lifescape appraisal (plla)en
dc.subjectFarm/Enterprise Scale Governanceen
dc.titleImpacts of changes in policy and market conditions on land use, land management and livelihood among farmers in central highlands of Vietnamen
dc.typePresentationen
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