The Impact Of Government Policies On Land Use In Northern Vietnam An Institutional Approach For Understanding Farmer Decisions

Author : Clement, Floriane, Amezaga, Jaime M., Orange, Didier, Toan, Tran Duc
Publisher : IWMI
ISBN 13 : 9290906642
Total Pages : 31 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The impact of government policies on land use in Northern Vietnam: An institutional approach for understanding farmer decisions written by Clement, Floriane, Amezaga, Jaime M., Orange, Didier, Toan, Tran Duc and published by IWMI. This book was released on 2007 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report identifies the driving forces for reforestation in three villages of Northern Vietnam. Using an institutional analysis focused on the rules governing upland access and use, the authors assess the relative impact of state policies (reforestation programs and forestland allocation) on land use change. Findings show that the latter are indirectly responsible for reforestation, but not because of the incentives they provided. Instead, they disrupted the local rules governing annual crop cultivation and grazing activities leading to the end of annual cropping. Tree plantation was chosen by farmers as a last resort option. Lessons learned highlight the importance of local level studies and collective rules for land management.

Author : Thanh Thi Nguyen
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Land Use Change and Its Impact on Soil Properties Using Remote Sensing, Farmer Decision Rules and Modelling in Rural Regions of Northern Vietnam written by Thanh Thi Nguyen and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Trung Thanh Nguyen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 39 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Determinants of Farmers' Land Use Decision-Making written by Trung Thanh Nguyen and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding farmers' land use decision-making is of interest to policy makers and scientific communities. Furthermore, comparing farmers' land use decision-making between countries offers a functioning instrument to enhance this understanding, since one country can benefit from the experiences of another. This study extends the sustainable livelihoods framework to examine and compare the factors affecting farmers' land use decision-making regarding land use choices and crop diversification. A panel dataset of 514 farm households in Ha Tinh (Vietnam) and 422 farm households in Ubon Ratchathani (Thailand) collected in 2007 and 2013 is used for the analyses. The results reveal that:(i) farmers' land use decision-making is determined by various factors representing the livelihood platforms, weather shock experience and expectation, and physical-economic conditions of the living localities, and (ii) crop diversification is a weather shock-coping strategy of rural households. We suggest that:(i) promoting farm land reconsolidation and privatization, (ii) enhancing access to credit sources and national electricity networks, and (iii) improving rural road conditions and attracting investments in rural non-agricultural sectors contribute to reducing farmers' vulnerability to climate variability.

Author : Amarasinghe, Upali A., Shah, Tushaar, Singh, Om Prakash
Publisher : IWMI
ISBN 13 : 9290906774
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Changing consumption patterns: Implications on food and water demand in India written by Amarasinghe, Upali A., Shah, Tushaar, Singh, Om Prakash and published by IWMI. This book was released on 2007 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Increasing income and urbanization are triggering a rapid change in food consumption patterns in India. This report assesses India’s changing food consumption patterns and their implications on future food and water demand. According to the projections made in this study, the total calorie supply would continue to increase, but the dominance of food grains in the consumption basket is likely to decrease by 2050, and the consumption of non-grain crops and animal products would increase to provide a major part of the daily calorie supply. Although the total food grain demand will decrease, the total grain demand is likely to increase with the increasing feed demand for the livestock. The implications of the changing consumption patterns are assessed through consumptive water use (CWU) under the assumptions of full or partial food self-sufficiency.

Author : Saleth, Rathinasamy Maria, Dinar, A., Neubert, S., Kamaiah, B., Manoharan, S., Abayawardana, Sarath, Ariyaratne, Ranjith, de Silva, S.
Publisher : IWMI
ISBN 13 : 9290906863
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Institutions, impact synergies and food security: a methodology with results from the Kala Oya Basin, Sri Lanka written by Saleth, Rathinasamy Maria, Dinar, A., Neubert, S., Kamaiah, B., Manoharan, S., Abayawardana, Sarath, Ariyaratne, Ranjith, de Silva, S. and published by IWMI. This book was released on 2007 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The success of development programs depends on the role of underlying institutions and the impact synergies from closely related programs. Existing literature has limitations in accounting for these critical factors. This paper fills this gap by developing a methodology, which can quantify both the institutional roles in impact generation and the impact synergies from related programs. The methodology is applied to the Kala Oya Basin in Sri Lanka for evaluating the impacts of three development programs and 11 institutions on food security. The results provide valuable insights on the relative roles of institutions and the varying flow of impact synergies both within and across impact pathways.

Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN 13 : 9251099111
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Forest change in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) written by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report looks at both negative and positive drivers that affect forest change in the Greater Mekong Sub-region (GMS) in the last 25 years (1990-2015) in order to have a better understanding of their influence on forests in the region. It evaluates policies and measures in relation to drivers of forest change. Agricultural expansion, infrastructure development particularly hydropower dams and road construction, logging, mining operations and forest fires are the most dominant drivers of fores t loss in GMS. At a positive note, almost all countries in the region have adopted policies that support SFM and balance the social, economic and environmental aspects of forestry. Furthermore, there seems to be a movement towards sustainable policies which influence the shift towards SFM, forest conservation and afforestation and reforestation. Although it seems the policies addressing the drivers of deforestation exist at local, national and international level, their effectiveness has been mi xed. T his report presents forest changes in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) over a period of 25 years between 1990 and 2015. It describes key drivers that have affected these changes. Some drivers influenced forests negatively in that they resulted in deforestation and forest degradation. On the other hand, positive drivers promoted sustainable forest management (SFM), afforestation and reforestation and forest conservation.

Author : Jean-Philippe Venot
Publisher : IWMI
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shifting Waterscapes: Explaining Basin Closure in the Lower Krishna Basin, South India written by Jean-Philippe Venot and published by IWMI. This book was released on with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Progressive agricultural and water development in the Krishna Basin in South India has led to a rising over commitment of water resources and signs of basin closure are apparent during dry periods. As human consumptive uses are approaching the limits of water availability, this report focuses on the Lower Krishna Basin that bears the brunt of any intervention upstream. Capturing the process of basin closure requires an understanding of the political dimension of access to water and the scope for change. As basin closure intensifies the interconnectedness of ecosystems and water users, adjustments and management decisions result in spatial re-appropriation of water and basin-wide strategies for water management and development that start with the definition and the implementation of water allocation mechanisms are increasingly needed.

Author : Drechsel, Pay, Graefe, S., Fink, M.
Publisher : IWMI
ISBN 13 : 9290906693
Total Pages : 39 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rural-urban food, nutrient and virtual water flows in selected West African cities written by Drechsel, Pay, Graefe, S., Fink, M. and published by IWMI. This book was released on 2007 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Impacts of increasing population pressure on food demand and land and water resources have sparked interest in nutrient and water balances and flows at a range of scales. In IWMI Research Report 115, it was tried for the first time to quantify rural-urban food flows for selected cities in Ghana and Burkina Faso to analyse their dependency on food supplied from rural vs. peri-urban vs. urban farming. Both, the urban nutrient and water footprints are closely interlinked. Currently, 80-95 percent of the domestic water used and the nutrients consumed go to waste without treatment or resource recovery. The economic dimensions are significant. Options to reduce the environmental burden by closing the rural-urban water and nutrient cycles are discussed.

Author : Zomer, Robert J., Bossio, Deborah A., Trabucco, Antonio, Yuanjie, Li, Gupta, Diwan C., Singh, Virendra P.
Publisher : IWMI
ISBN 13 : 9290906855
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Trees and water: smallholder agroforestry on irrigated lands in Northern India written by Zomer, Robert J., Bossio, Deborah A., Trabucco, Antonio, Yuanjie, Li, Gupta, Diwan C., Singh, Virendra P. and published by IWMI. This book was released on 2007 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trees are increasingly grown on-farm to supply wood and biomass needs within developing countries. Over the last several decades, within the irrigated rice-wheat growing lands of northern India, fast-growing poplar trees have been planted on tens of thousands of small farms. Recent debate regarding afforestation has raised the issue that water use is often increased when trees are planted. This ongoing debate focuses primarily on afforestation or reforestation of upland and rain-fed agricultural areas, and off-site impacts such as reduced streamflow. Adoption of poplar agroforestry in northern India, in contrast, is occurring in areas where land and water are already intensively used and managed for agricultural production. This study based on farmer survey data, used remote sensing and spatial hydrological modeling to investigate the importance and role of the poplar trees within the agricultural landscape, and to estimate their water use. Overall, results illustrate a potential for addressing the increasing global demand for wood products with trees grown on-farm within irrigated agroforestry systems.

Author : Smakhtin, Vladimir, Gamage, Nilantha, Bharati, Luna
Publisher : IWMI
ISBN 13 : 9290906820
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hydrological and environmental issues of interbasin water transfers in India: a case of the Krishna River Basin written by Smakhtin, Vladimir, Gamage, Nilantha, Bharati, Luna and published by IWMI. This book was released on 2007 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study attempts to examine those unique aspects of interbasin water transfer planning, which are of critical importance to the sustainable water resources development in India. It focuses on the crucial aspect of accurate quantification of surface water availability, which determines the entire feasibility of a water transfer. It also illustrates the impacts of upstream water resources development on the deltas’ environment thus justifying the deltas’ environmental flow requirements. The report targets government departments, research institutions and NGOs – primarily in India and other countries of the region – which are engaged or interested in issues of interbasin water transfer and environmental water management. The research intends to: contribute to the effectiveness of water resources planning and management in India; emphasize the need for urgent improvement of access to hydrometeorological data in the country; and aim to stimulate further debate on water transfers.