Information acquisition and the adoption of a new rice variety towards the development of sustainable agriculture in rural villages in Central Vietnam

Information Acquisition and Conservation Farming Practices for Sustainable Agriculture in Rural Vietnam

“…Despite lower influential power, the significant effect of information acquisition from peers suggests that social interactions among peer farmers play a supplemental role in diffusing the use of organic fertilizers as an environment-friendly agricultural practice. It is highly likely that, while agricultural extension services motivate farmers to adopt new farming techniques in the initial periods, peers can be regarded as influential agents for further promoting sustainable agricultural practices when farmers seek for agricultural information and advice from each other (Le, Shimamura, and Yamada 2020).…”

“…Recent studies in Africa show that information dissemination by farmers can be as effective as the initial training from agricultural extension services (Nakano et al 2018;Takahashi, Mano, and Otsuka 2019). Others in Asia verify the role of learning from agricultural extension in the early adoption period and learning from peers later (Krishnan and Patnam 2014;Le, Shimamura, and Yamada 2020). After learning from extension, farmers are likely to be convinced by peers who share comparable agricultural conditions (Benyishay and Mobarak 2019).…”

A Dataset of Lost Opportunities. The Case of 63 Developed and Emerging Countries Amid the Covid-19 Pandemic

“…The issues of economic development after the COVID-19 crisis with particular attention to sustainability are discussed in Perry [6], Le et al [7], Asiedu et al [8], Gitonga et al [9], Hellewell et al [10], Anderson et al [11], Mandel and Veetil [12], Ivanov [13], Inoue and Todo [14], Shan et al [15], Yekefallah et al [16],…”

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

“…The agriculture sector is still an important sector in Vietnam as it contributes more than 15% of the country's gross domestic product and provides jobs for more than 40% of the total labour force (GSO, 2019; Nguyen et al, 2019). Sustainable agriculture development has been consequently implemented in Vietnam via pest management, ecological engineering and other campaigns (Tu, Can, Takahashi, Kopp, & Yabe, 2018), covering a wide range of activities on rice, banana, coffee and aquaculture farms (D'haeze, Deckers, Raes, Phong, & Loi, 2005; Le, Shimamura, & Yamada, 2020; Nguyen et al, 2019; Nguyen & Chinawat, 2015; Tran & Kajisa, 2006; World Bank, 2017). Those studies have analysed different angles of the sustainable development of the Vietnamese agriculture sector in terms of different products, locations and factors (e.g., knowledge, productivity and government policy) affecting this development; however, our study is the first examining the sector regarding its systemically sustainability indicators such as agroecology and socio‐territory (details on those indicators as well as the IDEA framework are in the following section).…”

“…The agriculture sector is still an important sector in Vietnam as it contributes more than 15% of the country's gross domestic product and provides jobs for more than 40% of the total labour force (GSO, 2019;Nguyen et al, 2019). Sustainable agriculture development has been consequently implemented in Vietnam via pest management, ecological engineering and other campaigns (Tu, Can, Takahashi, Kopp, & Yabe, 2018), covering a wide range of activities on rice, banana, coffee and aquaculture farms (D'haeze, Deckers, Raes, Phong, & Loi, 2005;Le, Shimamura, & Yamada, 2020;Nguyen et al, 2019;Nguyen & Chinawat, 2015;Tran & Kajisa, 2006;World Bank, 2017).…”