Sustainable and conventional intensification: how gendered livelihoods influence farming practice adoption in the Vietnamese Mekong River Delta

Lovell, Robin J.; Shennan, Carol; Thủy, Nguyễn Ngọc

doi:10.1007/s10668-020-00905-9

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“…Data collected shows that most adopters (64%) were male. This finding is consistent with literature that indicates men are more likely than women to use sustainable agricultural discipline like agroecology (Gebru et al, 2019; Lovell, Shennan, and Thuy, 2021). The average age of the farmers was 40 years, while there are four persons per household Table 2.…”

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Impact of agroecological practices on farm performance in Botswana

Selelo,

Danso-Abbeam,

Ogundeji

2024

Renew. Agric. Food Syst.

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Despite the potential of agroecological practices to promote sustainable agrifood systems, their adoption among farmers is limited, and there is insufficient information regarding their impact on farm performance. This study evaluates the adoption of agroecological practices and their impact on farm performance among vegetable farmers in Botswana. The multivariate probit model was used to understand the complementarity and/or substitutability of the key agroecological practices under consideration—mulching, cover cropping, afforestation, and minimum tillage, as well as their determinants. Furthermore, the direct two-stage least squares (direct-2sls) technique within the framework of instrumental variable treatment effect regression (ivtreatreg) was used to eliminate self-selection bias that may be evident as a result of observed and unobserved characteristics. The results indicated that the agroecological practices are complementary and that the practice of one agroecology is conditional on another. The factors shaping the adoption of these agroecological practices vary among them. Furthermore, the adoption of agroecological practices led to a significant improvement in farmers' net revenue and yield, and farmers that did not adopt any of the practices would have been better off if they had adopted them. These findings have significant implications for stakeholders and will boost the campaign for the adoption of agroecological practices to improve farm performance and, consequently, farmers' welfare.

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Impact of agroecological practices on farm performance in Botswana

Selelo,

Danso-Abbeam,

Ogundeji

2024

Renew. Agric. Food Syst.

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“…In fact, the same issues have been observed in traditional extension services in Vietnam, whose approaches are more suitable to better-off male farmers (Lovell et al, 2021). Therefore, ICT agriculture that simply follows traditional extension approaches cannot be transformative in the aspects of equity and inclusiveness.…”

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Introducing an agricultural app to urban vegetable farmers: a pilot study in Hanoi

2022

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“…There has been a tendency to blame farmers themselves for adopting the unsustainable practices that characterize agrarian transformations (Lovell et al, 2020). Yet these smallholder decisions are driven by external factors often out of their control: irrigation schedules, access to credit or price pressures as markets rise and fall and thus relate not simply to farmer agency but to wider structural constraints.…”

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Climate precarity in rural livelihoods: Agrarian transformations and smallholder vulnerability in Vietnam

McElwee

Tuyến

Hue

et al. 2023

Journal of Agrarian Change

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In recent decades, agrarian transformations in Southeast Asia have resulted in significant environmental and social change, yet insufficient attention has focused on the particular pathways by which these changes have increased vulnerability to climate change. In particular, climate precarity, a situation in which class, social, labour and/or gender inequities amplify negative impacts from climate change, has been on the rise for many smallholders. Using case studies in Vietnam of changes to swidden agriculture in upland areas and the loss of deepwater rice systems in the Mekong Delta lowlands, the paper examines social differentiation and ecological outcomes of these processes and how they have increased climate precarity, particularly for poor households and women. Based on longitudinal fieldwork in affected regions, we identify key changes contributing to climate precarity as farming systems intensify. In particular, loss of flexibility in farmer decision‐making, loss of voluntary engagement with markets, and declining access to social capital and entitlements have increased risks for households and reduced adaptation options. Suggestions are made to more directly address these elements in future agricultural and climate policies, rather than current approaches to climate adaptation that often promote even more intensification of agriculture, which runs the risk of exacerbating precarity.

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Sustainable and conventional intensification: how gendered livelihoods influence farming practice adoption in the Vietnamese Mekong River Delta

Cited by 8 publications

References 56 publications

Impact of agroecological practices on farm performance in Botswana

Impact of agroecological practices on farm performance in Botswana

Introducing an agricultural app to urban vegetable farmers: a pilot study in Hanoi

Climate precarity in rural livelihoods: Agrarian transformations and smallholder vulnerability in Vietnam

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