Assessment of farm households’ perception, beliefs and attitude toward climatic risks: A case study of rural Vietnam

Abstract

Vietnam is one the most vulnerable region to climate change and extreme climatic events, such as flash floods and droughts. This present research aims to explore the farm households’ beliefs, risk perception, adaptive attitude and climate change adaptation measures that they currently utilize in their farms to cope with climatic risks. Further, this study analyzed effect of climate change belief, awareness and adaptive attitudes on farmers’ adaptive behavior. By using structured questionnaire, the data from 816 respondents were collected from seven provinces of Vietnam. We used ordinary least squares regression and logistic regression approach to analyze farmers’ belief, perception of climatic change, and risk attitude towards climatic hazards. Results revealed that farmers in the study area are using the most common climatic risk management strategies including applying new technologies, adjustment of the seasonal calendar, and diversification. Findings further revealed that that farm households were mostly concerned about the risk in soil erosion and washout, followed by the stress of prolonging dry season and droughts. The study participants also reported a decrease in precipitation and increase in temperature and frequency and incidence of other extreme climatic events. A positive significant relationship was found between farm management practices and ecological communities. Risk perceptions and attitude toward climate change are essential factors among farm households of northern mountains of Vietnam. Thus, the climate strain linked with the institutional stress and socio-economic has serious insinuations for farm households’ livelihood bases, a universal climate change adaptation scheme is required to endure farmers’ livelihood.

Analyzing the status of multidimensional poverty of rural households by using sustainable livelihood framework: policy implications for economic growth

“…Furthermore, the balance in these five assets plays an important role in the sustainability of farmers' livelihoods to recover from shock or stress (Fahad and Wang 2019;Fahad et al 2022;Wang et al 2022b). The five assets of SLA are related to each other as expanding in human and social assets would provide easier access to financial assets (Nguyen-Thi-Lan et al 2021;Soltani et al 2012).…”

“…The multidimensional poverty standards help to clearly identify the causes of poverty, thereby supporting the poor to leave themselves out of poverty sustainably by themselves. After several years of implementing poverty reduction based on multidimensional poverty standards, Vietnam has achieved a decreasing overall multidimensional poverty rate, from 9.9% in 2016 to 4.5% in 2020 (Nguyen-Thi-Lan et al 2021) Ha Giang, a mountainous northern province of Vietnam, is among the poorest provinces in the country. Therefore, the National Target Program for Sustainable Poverty Reduction has paid much attention and has provided support on sustainable poverty reduction and social security policies.…”