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Determinants of adoption of climate-smart agriculture technologies in rice production in Vietnam

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Title Determinants of adoption of climate-smart agriculture technologies in rice production in Vietnam
 
Creator Duyen, Tran Nhat Lam
Rañola, Roberto F.
Sander, Björn Ole
Wassmann, Reiner
Nguyen, Dinh Tien
Nong, Nguyen Khanh Ngoc
 
Subject climate change
agriculture
food security
rice
climate smart agriculture
 
Description Purpose
In recent years, climate-smart agriculture (CSA) was introduced to Vietnam to enhance farmers’ resilience and adaptation to climate change. Among the climate-smart agricultural technologies (CSATs) introduced were water-saving techniques and improved stress tolerant varieties. This study aims to examine the determinants of farmers’ adoption of these technologies and the effects of their adoption on net rice income (NRI) in three provinces as follows: Thai Binh (North), Ha Tinh (Central) and Bac Lieu (South).

Design/methodology/approach
Determinants of adoption of CSATs and the adoption effects on NRI are analyzed by using a multinomial endogenous switching regression framework.

Findings
The results showed that gender, age, number of family workers, climate-related factors, farm characteristics, distance to markets, access to climate information, confidence on the know-how of extension workers, membership in social/agricultural groups and attitude toward risk were the major factors affecting the decision to adopt CSATs. However, the effects of these factors on the adoption of CSATs varied across three provinces. These technologies when adopted tend to increase NRI but the increase is much greater when these are combined.

Practical implications
It is important to consider first the appropriateness of the CSA packages to the specific conditions of the target areas before they are promoted. It is also necessary to enhance the technical capacity of local extension workers and provide farmers more training on CSATs.

Originality/value
This study is the first attempt to identify key determinants of adoption of CSATs either singly or in combination and the adoption effects on NRI in Vietnam.
 
Date 2019-12-16
2020-02-19T16:12:06Z
2020-02-19T16:12:06Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Tran NLD, Rañola RF Jr, Sander BO, Reiner W, Nguyen DT, Nong NKN. 2020. Determinants of adoption of climate-smart agriculture technologies in rice production in Vietnam. International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management 12(2):238-256.
1756-8692
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/107158
FP3_VietnamLED
https://doi.org/10.1108/IJCCSM-01-2019-0003
PII-FP3_CCAC
PII-FP3_LEDPriorities
PII_SEA_GHGMitigationRice
PII-SEA_NoRegrets
 
Language en
 
Rights CC-BY-4.0
Open Access
 
Format 238-256
 
Publisher EMERALD GROUP PUBLISHING LTD
 
Source International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management