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Recent Changes in the Bioeconomics of Lobster and Mud Crab Mariculture in Vietnam
The purpose of this paper is to compare trends in the bioeconomics of tropical spiny lobster and mud crab mariculture in Vietnam between 2010 and 2013 using survey processes and bioeconomic analysis. Results show that tropical spiny lobster and mud crab grow-out mariculture remained strongly...Volume 13 Issue No. 2 (December 2016) -
Yield and Income Effects of Ecologically-based Rodent Management in Mekong River Delta, Vietnam
Regression-based strategies along with propensity score matching (PSM) were used to assess the farm-level economic impact of community action (CA) strategies associated with ecologically based rodent management (EBRM). The paddy yield and real net income of rice farmer beneficiaries of the EBRM...Volume 13 Issue No. 2 (December 2016) -
A Qualitative Review of Vietnam's 2006-2010 Economic Plan and the Performance of the Agriculture Sector
Vietnam’s economy faced difficulties in the 2006–2010 period due to the global financial crisis. The average inflation rate (greater than 20%) was higher than the expected level (less than 10%) for the period. The average GDP growth rate (6.3%) was lower than the target (7.5%). In the...Volume 11 Issue No. 1 (June 2014) -
Assessment of a Farmer Base Network in Promoting an Integrated Farming System at the Mekong Delta in Vietnam
This study analyzed forces driving the emergence of farmer networks in Vietnam and quantified the benefits of an integrated farming system (IFS) and the role of a farmer network in promoting IFS in the Mekong Delta. This case study applied a combination of literature review, participatory community...Volume 10 Issue No. 2 (December 2013) -
Rice Yield Gap between Myanmar and Vietnam: A Matter of Price Policy or Public Investment in Technology?
This paper examines the rice yield gap between Myanmar and Vietnam, two countries that show a stark contrast in terms of rice production in the past two decades. It considers the impact on yield of price policies and public investments in production technology. While domestic rice prices were once...Volume 10 Issue No. 1 (June 2013) -
Governance, Institutional, and Pro-Poor Analysis of Cassava Contract Farming in Quang Tri Province, Vietnam
Contract farming is seen as one of the measures to facilitate participation of farmers in commercial agriculture, adding more value to agricultural products. Vietnam, however, shows mixed evidence on the well-known advantages of contract farming to small farmers such as reduced cost of accessing the...Volume 9 Issue No. 2 (December 2012) -
Tackling Household Food Insecurity: The Experience of Vietnam
This paper is a systematic review of the facts and figures related to the issues of food security in Vietnam. Based on a comprehensive definition of food security as "access by all people at all times to enough, nutritionally adequate, and safe food for an active and health life" (Kennedy...Volume 5 Issue No. 2 (December 2008) -
Comparative and Competitive Advantage of the Shrimp Industry in Mekong River Delta, Vietnam
Given the growing prominence of Vietnam's fishery products in the world market, this study examines data on shrimp aquaculture in the country, as practiced through intensive and semi-intensive methods, in two provinces in the Mekong River Delta region. The study estimates the comparative and...Volume 5 Issue No. 1 (June 2008) -
Integrated Agriculture-Aquaculture Systems in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam: An Analysis of Recent Trends
In order to explain the trends in the development and farm attributes of Integrated Agriculture-Aquaculture (IAA) systems in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam, a participatory community appraisal and two surveys are carried out in three districts with contrasting fish culture input systems. The first...Volume 4 Issue No. 2 (December 2007) -
The Role of Supply Chains and International Networks in Enhancing the Agricultural Sector's Competitiveness in Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam (CLMV)
The expansion of supermarkets in Asia typifiesthe effects of the increasing liberalization in trade and the inflow of foreign investment. The supermarket revolution thus occupies a focal point in this paper which tracks its phenomenal growth in Asia, and its continuing in roads into CLMV &ndash...Volume 4 Issue No. 1 (June 2007)
