Download or read book Sustainable Livelihoods in Upland Vietnam written by Elaine Morrison and published by IIED. This book was released on 1998 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Effects of Development and Reforestation on Agrarian Livelihoods in Upland Vietnam written by Ann Elizabeth Macfadyen and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This research highlighted the role everyday politics emerging from local inequalities play in intra-hamlet livelihood resilience. Acacia and cassava provide finite benefits to specific households, yet they cause diffuse environmental risks across the hamlets, placing the wellbeing of less-well off families at risk. People will assume authority over their own circumstances, even continuing illicit strategies as part of their efforts to manage barriers to livelihood sustainability and improvement in the context of the changing climate.
Download or read book Sustainable Land Use and Rural Development in Southeast Asia Innovations and Policies for Mountainous Areas written by Holger L. Fröhlich and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-03 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is based on the findings of a long-term (2000-2014) interdisciplinary research project of the University of Hohenheim in collaboration with several universities in Thailand and Vietnam. Titled Sustainable Land Use and Rural Development in Mountainous Areas in Southeast Asia, or the Uplands Program, the project aims to contribute through agricultural research to the conservation of natural resources and the improvement of living conditions of the rural population in the mountainous regions of Southeast Asia. Having three objectives the book first aims to give an interdisciplinary account of the drivers, consequences and challenges of ongoing changes in mountainous areas of Southeast Asia. Second, the book describes how innovation processes can contribute to addressing these challenges and third, how knowledge creation to support change in policies and institutions can assist in sustainably develop mountain areas and people’s livelihoods.
Download or read book Environment Livelihoods and Local Institutions written by Mairi Kristina Dupar and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of how decentralization reforms are changing local institutions for natural resource management in mainland Southeast Asia. The focus is on mountainous areas where impoverished populations struggle to preserve meagre resources, remaining biodiversity and food security.
Download or read book An Upland Community in Transition written by Agnes C. Rola and published by Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. This book was released on 2011 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All over Southeast Asia, rural communities are in transition to a sustainable status. This book explores how an environmentally fragile upland community in rural Philippines coped with and responded to economic and environmental tensions brought about by a globalized economy and decentralization. This in turn gave rise to local power especially in the management of natural resources.
Download or read book Innovations and Sustainability Strategies in the Upland Agriculture of Northern Vietnam written by Dang Viet Quang and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Communities Livelihoods and Natural Resources written by International Development Research Centre (Canada) and published by IDRC. This book was released on 2006 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book synthesizes results from a 7-year programme of applied research on community-based approaches to natural resource management in Asia. By presenting field reports of innovative approaches to poverty reduction and sustainable resource use, it provides practitioners with models of ""good practice"" in participatory, community-based resource management, and it demonstrates how site-based research contributes to broader learning in the field of natural resource management and policy. There are 11 case studies featured, from some of the most marginal areas of rural China, Mongolia, Laos, V.
Download or read book Living with Environmental Change written by W. Neil Adger and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vietnam and the neighbouring countries of Southeast Asia face diverse challenges created by the rapid evolution of their social, economic and environmental systems and resources. Taking a multidisciplinary perspective, this book provides a comprehensive assessment of the Vietnamese situation, identifying the factors shaping social vulnerability and resilience to environmental change and considering prospects for sustainable development.
Download or read book Frontier Livelihoods written by Sarah Turner and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do ethnic minorities have the power to alter the course of their fortune when living within a socialist state? In Frontier Livelihoods, the authors focus their study on the Hmong - known in China as the Miao - in the Sino-Vietnamese borderlands, contending that individuals and households create livelihoods about which governments often know little. The product of wide-ranging research over many years, Frontier Livelihoods bridges the traditional divide between studies of China and peninsular Southeast Asia by examining the agency, dynamics, and resilience of livelihoods adopted by Hmong communities in Vietnam and in China’s Yunnan Province. It covers the reactions to state modernization projects among this ethnic group in two separate national jurisdictions and contributes to a growing body of literature on cross-border relationships between ethnic minorities in the borderlands of China and its neighbors and in Southeast Asia more broadly.
Download or read book Poverty Alleviation and Forests in Vietnam written by William D. Sunderlin and published by CIFOR. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Economics of Land Degradation and Improvement A Global Assessment for Sustainable Development written by Ephraim Nkonya and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-11-11 with total page 695 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume deals with land degradation, which is occurring in almost all terrestrial biomes and agro-ecologies, in both low and high income countries and is stretching to about 30% of the total global land area. About three billion people reside in these degraded lands. However, the impact of land degradation is especially severe on livelihoods of the poor who heavily depend on natural resources. The annual global cost of land degradation due to land use and cover change (LUCC) and lower cropland and rangeland productivity is estimated to be about 300 billion USD. Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) accounts for the largest share (22%) of the total global cost of land degradation. Only about 38% of the cost of land degradation due to LUCC - which accounts for 78% of the US$300 billion loss – is borne by land users and the remaining share (62%) is borne by consumers of ecosystem services off the farm. The results in this volume indicate that reversing land degradation trends makes both economic sense, and has multiple social and environmental benefits. On average, one US dollar investment into restoration of degraded land returns five US dollars. The findings of the country case studies call for increased investments into the rehabilitation and restoration of degraded lands, including through such institutional and policy measures as strengthening community participation for sustainable land management, enhancing government effectiveness and rule of law, improving access to markets and rural services, and securing land tenure. The assessment in this volume has been conducted at a time when there is an elevated interest in private land investments and when global efforts to achieve sustainable development objectives have intensified. In this regard, the results of this volume can contribute significantly to the ongoing policy debate and efforts to design strategies for achieving sustainable development goals and related efforts to address land degradation and halt biodiversity loss.
Download or read book Rolling the Dice with Spice written by Patrick Slack and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Throughout the northern Vietnamese borderlands, upland minorities relying on semi-subsistence agriculture reside on the geographic, cultural, and economic margins of the Vietnamese state. In the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, policies aim to ‘modernise’ and integrate such semi-subsistence ethnic minority farmers into both the market economy and ‘preferred’ livelihood strategies. Such policies mean that upland farmers are increasingly engaging in trade and agricultural intensification rather than continuing to rely on subsistence crops of landrace varieties of rice, corn, and livestock, in addition to bartering. One specific program that influences ethnic minority livelihoods in these uplands has been encouraging farmers to rely on hybrid varieties of rice and corn, with seeds that must be bought yearly, along with agro-chemical inputs. Since the state began promoting these forms of agricultural intensification in the early 1990s, ethnic minority semi-subsistence farmers living near forests have turned to the propagation and cultivation of black cardamom (Lanxangia tsaoko, formerly classified as Amomum tsao-ko) as a preferred and lucrative income source. Black cardamom, specifically its dried fruit, is a non-timber forest product used in traditional medicine and is among the most expensive spices in the world. This thesis, rooted in four months of ethnographic fieldwork completed in 2018, examines ethnic minority livelihoods centered around black cardamom in a northern district of Lào Cai province, Vietnam. Drawing conceptual ideas from political ecology, sustainable livelihoods, and food security literatures, my thesis aim is: To investigate the livelihood strategies of ethnic minority households in Bát Xát district, Lào Cai province, northern Vietnam, with a focus on the impacts of extreme weather events and government interventions, and the subsequent coping and adaptation strategies of local households. To investigate this aim, I collected data through semi-structured interviews, conversational interviews, walk-along interviews, group interviews, focus groups, oral histories, and overt participant observation. In my first results chapter, I examine the key elements that comprised ethnic minority livelihood portfolios and food security before 2008, before a series of shocks affected local livelihoods. I highlight the traditionally composite livelihoods that local farmers had, with limited trade, before noting the increasingly important role that black cardamom has played in funding hybrid rice and corn cultivation, greatly improving food availability. In my second analysis chapter, I focus on the shocks increasingly impacting upland ethnic minority livelihoods since 2008, specifically those in the shape of government forest-use regulations and extreme weather events that are restricting or devastating black cardamom crops. I then analyse the livelihood adaptation and diversification strategies that farmers have employed in response to these shocks, including shifts into wage labour, silviculture, the cultivation of medicinal crops, staple crop intensification, trading, fisheries, and increased participation in the tourism industry. I find that ethnic minority livelihoods and traditional notions of food security have remained resilient despite shocks limiting black cardamom as a livelihood strategy. However, how long this resiliency will last remains unclear, as there is no end in sight for extreme weather events and unhelpful government interventions"--
Download or read book Livelihood Pathways of Indigenous People in Vietnam s Central Highlands written by Huỳnh Anh Chi Thái and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-01-31 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study focuses on impacts of the environmental and socio-economic transformation on the indigenous people's livelihoods in Vietnam's Central Highlands recent decades since the country's reunification in 1975. The first empirical section sheds light on multiple external conditions (policy reforms, population trends, and market forces) exposed onto local people. The role of human and social capital is examined again in a specific livelihood of community-based tourism to testify the resilience level of local people when coping with constraints. The study concludes with an outlook on implications of development processed which still places agriculture at the primary position livelihood, and pays attention to human capital and social capital of indigenous groups in these highlands.
Download or read book Sustaining Upland Development in Southeast Asia written by Rogelio C. Serrano and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Forest Management Systems in the Uplands of Vietnam written by Nguyen Nghia Bien and published by Singapore : Economy and Environment Program for Southeast Asia. This book was released on 2001 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Conservation Agriculture and Sustainable Upland Livelihoods written by Centre de coopération internationale en recherche agronomique pour le développement (France) and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Shifting Cultivation Policies written by Malcolm Cairns and published by CABI. This book was released on 2017-11-13 with total page 1117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shifting cultivation supports around 200 million people in the Asia-Pacific region alone. It is often regarded as a primitive and inefficient form of agriculture that destroys forests, causes soil erosion and robs lowland areas of water. These misconceptions and their policy implications need to be challenged. Swidden farming could support carbon sequestration and conservation of land, biodiversity and cultural heritage. This comprehensive analysis of past and present policy highlights successes and failures and emphasizes the importance of getting it right for the future. This book is enhanced with supplementary resources. The addendum chapters can be found at: www.cabi.org/openresources/91797