Challenging slopes: ethnic minority livelihoods, state visions, and land-use land cover change in Vietnam’s northern mountainous borderlands

Nguyen, An Thinh; Turner, Sarah; Kalácska, Margaret

doi:10.1007/s10668-021-01539-1

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“…We determined five land cover classes: closed-canopy forest, open-canopy forest, shrubs, water, and bare soil (which is almost entirely agricultural). We also chose one land use class (built-up) following previous work by [23][24][25]. We considered closed-canopy forests to be areas with >60% tree cover and open-canopy forests to be areas with tree cover between 10% and 60%.…”

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“…Despite such studies, however, other than [23][24][25], scant information is available on LULCC in the mountainous inland provinces of the northern Vietnam borderlands. Hence, there exists an imperative to broaden the extant scholarly literature, with the goal of enhancing our comprehension of the intricate interplay between the persistent pressures compelling upland farmers-strongly encouraged by local state officials-to follow statedriven development initiatives (including agrarian transition and reforestation schemes) and the resultant LULC change.…”

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Forest Tales? Unravelling Divergent Land Use and Land Cover Change (LULCC) Maps and State Narratives in Vietnam’s Northern Uplands

Nguyen,

Le,

Slack

et al. 2024

Land

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The Vietnamese state has advocated for the sedentarization and market integration of upland northern farmers over the past thirty years, leading to both agrarian and forest transitions. This article presents a comprehensive land use and land cover change (LULCC) analysis of two adjacent upland borderland districts, Phong Thổ and Bát Xát, in northern Vietnam, spanning two neighboring inland provinces, Lai Châu and Lào Cai. These districts are primarily home to ethnic minority farmers who are encouraged by Vietnamese state officials to not only protect forests but to also transition toward cash crop cultivation from less intensive semi-subsistence agriculture. Our LULCC maps, covering the period from 1990 to 2020, revealed a reduction in the speed by which closed-canopy forests were disappearing. During interviews, state officials were confident that this was due to a range of state policies and state-sponsored initiatives, including the promotion of tree crops and payments for forest environmental services. Our own fieldwork in the region suggests other factors are also supporting this decline in deforestation rates, rooted in ethnic minority farmer livelihood decision making. Some state officials were also able to point to factors hindering a more positive result regarding forest cover, including population pressure and new infrastructure. Interestingly, despite our positive findings on Land use and land cover change (LULCC) related to forest cover, one-third of state officials, upon reviewing our LULCC maps, firmly maintained that errors had occurred. Some even proposed that there was an actual rise in forest cover. Our study shows that these discrepancies raise compelling questions about officials’ political motivations and ongoing pressures to uphold the central state’s reforestation and agrarian transition discourses.

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Forest Tales? Unravelling Divergent Land Use and Land Cover Change (LULCC) Maps and State Narratives in Vietnam’s Northern Uplands

Nguyen,

Le,

Slack

et al. 2024

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“…Furthermore, research examining farmers' attitudes and capacity to respond to climate change suggests that the adoption of national agricultural adaptation policies for climate change un-fold positive reactions from both governmental initiatives and rural communities. However, there remains a gap in research conducted in the Northwest and North Central Coast, where signi cant agricultural development constraints and challenges in implementing coping strategies are identi ed (Nguyen et al 2022). This research gap inhibits the identi cation of factors in uencing farmers' perceptions of climate change and their choices of adaptive techniques.…”

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Integrating climate-resilient agricultural practices along national interprovincial road: Case study from Vietnam

Nguyen-Anh,

Nguyen-Thi-Lan,

Dang-Trung

et al. 2024

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This study attempted to explore farmers’ adaptation decisions and assess the determinants of these adaptation strategies by using the multivariate probit model. A survey of 350 Vietnamese agricultural households was carried out covering districts with and without national interprovincial road traversing in Northwest and North Central Coast region. Five adaptation practices (new technology application, cropping calendar adjustment, implementation of soil preservation, crops and livestock diversification, and households’ income management) were deemed as outcome variables, and fifteen variables were deployed as explanatory variables. The results indicate a significant difference in the application of agricultural adaptation methods related to the geographical location of provinces in connection with inter-provincial highways. Additionally, perceived risks about existence of climate change, accessibility of microcredit, and temperature, were found to be more influential compared to other factors. All five adaptation options were found to be complimentary to each other. Importantly, the intensity of the impact of dependent variables in different practices, and for the available adaptation options, were found to be unequal. This study, therefore, suggested that policies on adaptation strategies should be taken into consideration while credit for households should be supported and encouraged by the governments and relevant governmental agencies.

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Driving forces of forest cover rehabilitation and implications for forest transition, environmental management and upland sustainable development in Vietnam

Khuc,

Tran,

Nong

et al. 2023

Environ Dev Sustain

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Challenging slopes: ethnic minority livelihoods, state visions, and land-use land cover change in Vietnam’s northern mountainous borderlands

Cited by 5 publications

References 28 publications

Forest Tales? Unravelling Divergent Land Use and Land Cover Change (LULCC) Maps and State Narratives in Vietnam’s Northern Uplands

Forest Tales? Unravelling Divergent Land Use and Land Cover Change (LULCC) Maps and State Narratives in Vietnam’s Northern Uplands

Integrating climate-resilient agricultural practices along national interprovincial road: Case study from Vietnam

Driving forces of forest cover rehabilitation and implications for forest transition, environmental management and upland sustainable development in Vietnam

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