Sustainable and conventional intensification: how gendered livelihoods influence farming practice adoption in the Vietnamese Mekong River Delta

The Vietnamese Mekong River Delta emerged as a rice production giant in the 1990s. Currently, the Vietnamese government is attempting to reduce environmental impacts resulting from the triple annual rice crop regime. This article explores how gender influences farming practice adoption using househo...

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Published in:Environment, development and sustainability development and sustainability, 2021-05, Vol.23 (5), p.7089-7116
Main Authors: Lovell, Robin J., Shennan, Carol, Thuy, Nguyen Ngoc
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Agricultural practices
Agricultural production
Cereal crops
Chemical pest control
Crop production
Earth and Environmental Science
Ecology
Economic Geology
Economic Growth
Environment
Environmental Economics
Environmental impact
Environmental Management
Farming
Farms
Fertilizers
Households
Integrated pest management
Livelihood
Males
Organic fertilizers
Pest control
Pesticides
Rice
Rivers
Sustainability
Sustainable Development
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Summary:The Vietnamese Mekong River Delta emerged as a rice production giant in the 1990s. Currently, the Vietnamese government is attempting to reduce environmental impacts resulting from the triple annual rice crop regime. This article explores how gender influences farming practice adoption using household livelihood survey data from Tien Giang Province. Each farm is disaggregated into male-managed, female-managed, and jointly managed plots. The study uses correlation to explore how sustainable intensification (SI) and conventional intensification (CI) practices are applied in complementary packages, and then a binary logistic regression to determine if livelihood approaches within households influence adoption of farming practices. The study finds that CI practices are more than twice as popular as SI practices, and that CI and SI practices are adopted in pairs that complement each other. The research also shows that gendered plot management is directly associated with SI and CI practice adoption, including decreased fertilizer use ( p  
ISSN:1387-585X
1573-2975
DOI:10.1007/s10668-020-00905-9