Banana Farmers’ Adoption of Sustainable Agriculture Practices in the Vietnam Uplands: The Case of Quang Tri Province

Thành, Nguyễn Văn; Yapwattanaphun, C.

doi:10.1016/j.aaspro.2015.08.010

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“…Agricultural practices are defined as sustainable when they are implemented by locally available resources, based on farm households' knowledge and skills, and when they use less external inputs that are harmful to the environment. Sustainable agriculture is an integrated system of livestock and crop production that is capable of transitioning industrialized agriculture into an environmentally-friendly system while maintaining its productivity and competitiveness [13,16,27].…”

Section: Sustainable Agricultural Practices Studiedmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…To capture this, two models are suggested, namely, the ordered probit model [11][12][13][14][15] and the censored least absolute deviation (CLAD) [36,37] Both could help to explore factors that influence the number of land management practices adopted. In both models, the dependent variable (Y i ) is the number of agricultural practices adopted.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In the literature, similar findings were reported previously. For example, the significant and positive impacts of farmers' attitudes on adopting ecological focus areas and private sustainability schemes [19], using agri-environmental schemes, such as environmental fallow and use of alternative crops in special protected areas [50], implementing pro-environmental agricultural practices [51], converting non-organic agriculture to organic agriculture [52] and adopting various agricultural practices [13,53]. Similarly, perceived advantages and perceived compatibility were found to be significant predictors for adopting conservation tillage, grassed waterways, filter strips and cover crops in the US [54].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…They can help them to become aware of their attributes, advantages and disadvantages. Several authors, for example, in Vietnam [13], Tanzania [16], the US [63], Zambia [64], and in Kenya [65] reported that extension agents positively influenced the adoption of improved farming practices. Farmers are more likely to adopt improved farming practices if they have frequent contacts with public extension agents.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…However, the adoption and diffusion of improved technologies and sustainable agricultural practices in these countries still remain below the expected levels [5,[11][12][13][14][15]. Some authors have conducted research to identify the reasons for the low adoptions.…”

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Impacts of Socio-Psychological Factors on Actual Adoption of Sustainable Land Management Practices in Dryland and Water Stressed Areas

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Despite the presence of several studies on technology adoption, there are limited empirical studies on how socio-psychological factors affect the adoption of sustainable agriculture. Therefore, this paper investigates how socio-psychological factors-such as social capital, information, attitudes, efficacy, and aversion-affect smallholder farmers’ decisions to adopt sustainable land management practices, such as agroforestry systems, organic compost, and crop rotation with legumes. Cross-sectional data are collected from 350 randomly selected farm households using a pre-tested and structured questionnaire. A multivariate probit model is used to investigate factors that influence the probability of adopting these practices. The ordered probit model is also applied to identify and analyze the determinants of the number (intensity) of land management practices adopted. The findings indicate that nearly half of the farmers have adopted these land management practices to improve soil fertility, enhance water retention capacity, and increase productivity. It is also found that attitudes, information, education, group membership, relational capital, risk attitudes, and labor supply significantly affect the probability of adopting these agricultural practices. The estimates of the ordered probit model also indicate that extension services, risk attitudes, group membership, relational capital, education and labor supply are major determinants of the number of land management practices used. However, financial resources, biophysical factors and some demographic factors are found to have an insignificant effect on sustainable agriculture adoption. This implies that when it is necessary to promote sustainable land management practices and to stimulate smallholder farmers to adopt such practices in isolation or combination, specific strategies should be designed to improve awareness, build positive attitudes, reduce risk aversion, strengthen formal organizations, and empower endogenous groups (or informal institutions).

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Assessing the important factors of sustainable agriculture development: An Indicateurs de Durabilité des Exploitations Agricoles‐Analytic Hierarchy Process study in the northern region of Vietnam

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Combining the systemic indicators of sustainable agriculture provided by the Indicateurs de Durabilité des Exploitations Agricoles (IDEA) framework and the pairwise comparison method provided by the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) technique, this study examined 644 farmers in the Northern region of Vietnam (using Bac Giang province as a case study) to identify and rank those important factors according to their contributions to the farmer's practices. We found that the Economic dimension is the most important factor that contributes 54% toward the overall Sustainable Agriculture, followed by the Socio-territorial dimension (29%) and then the Agroecology dimension (17%). We further argue that while it is reasonable for farmers to focus on the sustainable economic performance aspect of their farms, there is a need for the local authorities to be involved to maintain a balanced sustainable agriculture development in the region. K E Y W O R D S agriculture, Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), Indicateurs de Durabilité des Exploitations Agricoles (IDEA), Northern region of Vietnam, sustainable development | INTRODUCTIONThe agriculture sector is becoming more important, especially in developing countries, because of its central role in food safety, hunger and

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Designing an integrated model for strawberry growers’ behavior toward implementation of good agricultural practices in Iran

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Banana Farmers’ Adoption of Sustainable Agriculture Practices in the Vietnam Uplands: The Case of Quang Tri Province

Cited by 37 publications

References 17 publications

Impacts of Socio-Psychological Factors on Actual Adoption of Sustainable Land Management Practices in Dryland and Water Stressed Areas

Impacts of Socio-Psychological Factors on Actual Adoption of Sustainable Land Management Practices in Dryland and Water Stressed Areas

Assessing the important factors of sustainable agriculture development: An Indicateurs de Durabilité des Exploitations Agricoles‐Analytic Hierarchy Process study in the northern region of Vietnam

Designing an integrated model for strawberry growers’ behavior toward implementation of good agricultural practices in Iran

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