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• Farmers’ Characteristics and Awareness of Changing Cultivation Practices in the Central Highlands of Vietnam

  Tran Binh Da, Nong Huu Duong, Tran Duc Vien

  Received: Sep 11, 2024 / Accepted: Mar 19, 2025 / Published: Mar 31, 2025

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  Understanding the characteristics and awareness of respondents who participated in this study is critically important for policymakers, researchers, and traders. The study was conducted by interviewing 248 households in 89 villages throughout the Central Highlands. The results showed that males of the households played a large role in responding to outsiders (about 80.6% were male respondents). The age of most interviewees ranged from 30 to 50 years old (about 55.5%). Within the interviewed households, the ethnic group distribution was 21.4% indigenous people, 75.4% Kinh, and 3.2% other minority people. Most of the respondents were poorly educated (82.0% with a high school education or lower). The number of family members ranged from 4.0 (± 0.09) to 5.3 (± 0.29) persons per household, while the number of laborers for cultivation were from 2.25 (± 0.06) to 2.62 (± 0.26) persons per household depending on ethnic group. About 88.6% of the farmers were not aware of the changes in their local agriculture production, and 78.8% of the farmers did not respond or give any consideration to future changes. However, about 40% of the interviewed farmers wanted to change their cash crops. Therefore, understanding farmers might help to raise the urgent need to support capacity building for households with relevant policies and extension programs of the Government.

• Ethnic Minority Farmers’ Perceptions of Climate Change and Its Effects on Crop Production in Northwest Vietnam: A Case Study of H’mong Farmers in Pa Lau Commune, Tram Tau District, Yen Bai Province

  Nguyen Thi Bich Yen, Tran Nguyen Bang, Pham Thi Hai Luyen, Giang A Tu, Tran Duc Vien

  Received: Feb 09, 2023 / Published: Jun 30, 2023

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  This study aimed to assess the perception of H'mong farmers in the northwest mountainous region on climate change, its impacts on crop production, and their adaptation strategies. Reports on natural disaster events and their damages for the period ranging from 2012-2021, together with meteorological data including daily temperature and precipitation for 1991-2021, were collected. Fifty households among the H’mong farmers were randomly selected from four villages of Pa Lau commune for interviews based on structured questionnaires. The results showed that most H’mong farmers know that the climate is changing. However, their perceptions of the trends of these changes in terms of rainfall, temperature, and extreme weather events were not consistent with the analysis of meteorological data. The results also revealed that this is because the farmers evaluated the changes mainly based on their observations of short-term climate changes and the associated impacts that directly affect their livelihoods. The farmers perceived that soil erosion and hot and extreme cold weather have tended to increase their impacts on the production of some major local crops. Other types of natural disasters such as droughts, floods, landslides, pests, and strong winds have tended to have more or less impacts depending on the crop type. Adaptation measures taken by farmers to mitigate the effects of climate change are mainly simple, flexible, seasonal and low-cost measures. This study provides basic information for authorities at all levels to mitigate the negative impacts of climate change.

• Who cares more about the environment?: An empirical study in Vietnam

  Tran Cong Chinh, Nguyen Thi Huong Giang

  Received: Nov 11, 2020 / Published: Dec 31, 2021

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  Environmental problems have become one of the top concerns in Vietnam since 2016. This study aimed to investigate what groups of people were most concerned about the environment and to what extent their concerns differed from each other. Logistic regression models were used to perform the analyses. The analysis on the gender - environmental concern relationship indicated that males were more likely to be concerned about the environment than females. The age - environmental concern relationship suggested higher concern levels of younger people as compared to older people. In the examination of the social class - environmental concern relationship, people who were wealthier, well-educated, and had greater occupational prestige tended to have more concerns. People with higher education levels also expressed higher levels of concern toward the environment. People with postgraduate degrees reported the highest level of concern, while people with no formal education showed the least concern. From the perspective of the political involvement - environmental concern relationship, it was shown that while people who were not a member of any organization were the least environmentally concerned, the members of university alumni associations were the most concerned. Finally, the exploration of the residence - environmental concern relationship pointed out that Kinh people were more environmentally concerned than Vietnamese ethnic minority groups, and people in the North Central Coast paid the highest attention to the environment in Vietnam.