scholarly journals Back to Nature-Based Agriculture: Green Livelihoods Are Taking Root in the Mekong River Delta

2021 ◽  
Vol 24 (6) ◽  
pp. 551-561
Author(s):  
Ngo Thi Phuong Lan ◽  
Nguyen Van Kien
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Living Environment ◽  
River Delta ◽  
Mekong River ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Scale Production ◽  
Farming Practices ◽  
Mekong River Delta ◽  
National Food Security

Background and objective: Vietnam is prioritizing agricultural production for food export capacity in all national policies. As a result, for three decades, its agriculture has been making quite many remarkable achievements.Methods: The most successful one is that the nation has become one of the world’s leading rice exporters and ensures its national food security. Through these endeavors, the Mekong River Delta (MRD), in particular, has emerged as a key region in ensuring national food security and rice export.Results: The new era can now see Vietnamese agriculture turning to place special emphasis on commodity quality and the improvement of the living environment. This is evidenced, for example, by the phenomenon that the MRD, as a rice basket of the whole country, is making moves back to nature-based agriculture with attempts to restore the natural ecology, including preserving and restoring local traditional rice seeds, adopting natural farming practices and minimizing the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides.Conclusion: The case studies of nature-based farming practices in the MRD indicate that, while the national agriculture is generally developing large-scale production, the small-scale farming in the region, integrated with tourist and educational activities on-site, is meeting the demands of a highly potential domestic niche market. Moreover, this model appears to be a sustainable farming approach that defines itself as a working green livelihood for the region.

scholarly journals When climate change is not psychologically distant – Factors influencing the acceptance of sustainable farming practices in the Mekong river Delta of Vietnam

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
pp. 100204 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melanie Connor ◽  
Annalyn H. de Guia ◽  
Reianne Quilloy ◽  
Hung Van Nguyen ◽  
Martin Gummert ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
River Delta ◽  
Mekong River ◽  
Farming Practices ◽  
Sustainable Farming ◽  
Mekong River Delta ◽  
Factors Influencing

scholarly journals Demographic features and mortality risks in smallholder poultry farms of the Mekong river delta region

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexis Delabouglise ◽  
Benjamin Nguyen-Van-Yen ◽  
Thanh Thi Le Nguyen ◽  
Xuyen Thi Ai Huynh ◽  
Tuyet Ngoc Phuong ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Management Practices ◽  
Bird Species ◽  
River Delta ◽  
Mekong River ◽  
Farm Size ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Delta Region ◽  
Mekong River Delta ◽  
Poultry Farms ◽  
Muscovy Ducks

This study describes the demographic structure and dynamics of small scale poultry farms of the Mekong river delta region, one of the world's highest-risk regions for avian influenza outbreaks. Fifty farms were monitored over a 20-month period, with farm sizes, species, age, arrival/departure of poultry, and farm management practices recorded monthly. The history of poultry flocks in the sampled farms was recovered using a flock-matching algorithm. Median flock population sizes were 16 for chickens (IQR: 10 - 40), 32 for ducks (IQR: 18 - 101) and 11 for Muscovy ducks (IQR: 7 - 18); farm size distributions for the three species were heavily right-skewed. There was substantial flock overlap on almost all farms, with only one farm practicing an all-in-all-out management system. The rate of interspecific contacts was high, with two out of three farms housing at least two bird species. Among poultry species, demographic dynamics varied. Muscovy ducks were kept for long periods, in small numbers and outdoors, while chickens and ducks were farmed in larger numbers, indoors or in pens, with more rapid flock turnover. Most chicks were sold young to be fattened on other farms, and broiler and layer ducks had a short production period and higher degree of specialization. The rate of mortality due to disease did not differ much among species, with birds being less likely to die from disease at older ages, but frequency of disease symptoms differed by species. Time series of disease-associated mortality and population size were correlated for Muscovy ducks (Kendall's coefficient = 0.49, p value < 0.01).

Impacts of Climate Shock Response Measures on Poverty Vulnerability of Farmer Households in the Mekong River Delta

2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 143-160
Author(s):  
TRAN DAI NGHIA ◽  
DOAN MINH THU ◽  
LE TRONG HAI ◽  
DINH PHI HO
Keyword(s):  
River Delta ◽  
Mekong River ◽  
Mekong River Delta ◽  
Shock Response ◽  
Response Measures

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION OF CA DONG PEOPLE IN RESETTLEMENT AREA OF TRANH RIVER HYDROPOWER NUMBER 2: CURRENT SITUATION AND IMPACT FACTORS

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bùi Thị Bích Lan
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Transition Process ◽  
Impact Factors ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Scale Production ◽  
Technical Application ◽  
Production Models ◽  
Role Of The State

In Vietnam, the construction of hydropower projects has contributed significantly in the cause of industrialization and modernization of the country. The place where hydropower projects are built is mostly inhabited by ethnic minorities - communities that rely primarily on land, a very important source of livelihood security. In the context of the lack of common productive land in resettlement areas, the orientation for agricultural production is to promote indigenous knowledge combined with increasing scientific and technical application; shifting from small-scale production practices to large-scale commodity production. However, the research results of this article show that many obstacles in the transition process are being posed such as limitations on natural resources, traditional production thinking or the suitability and effectiveness of scientific - technical application models. When agricultural production does not ensure food security, a number of implications for people’s lives are increasingly evident, such as poverty, preserving cultural identity, social relations and resource protection. Since then, it has set the role of the State in researching and building appropriate agricultural production models to exploit local strengths and ensure sustainability.

scholarly journals Fabrication Techniques for Graphene Oxide-Based Molecular Separation Membranes: Towards Industrial Application

Nanomaterials ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 757
Author(s):  
Ohchan Kwon ◽  
Yunkyu Choi ◽  
Eunji Choi ◽  
Minsu Kim ◽  
Yun Chul Woo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Graphene Oxide ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Spray Coating ◽  
Dip Coating ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Scale Production ◽  
Separation Membranes ◽  
Current Review ◽  
Slot Die ◽  
Continuous Fabrication

Graphene oxide (GO) has been a prized material for fabricating separation membranes due to its immense potential and unique chemistry. Despite the academic focus on GO, the adoption of GO membranes in industry remains elusive. One of the challenges at hand for commercializing GO membranes lies with large-scale production techniques. Fortunately, emerging studies have acknowledged this issue, where many have aimed to deliver insights into scalable approaches showing potential to be employed in the commercial domain. The current review highlights eight physical methods for GO membrane fabrication. Based on batch-unit or continuous fabrication, we have further classified the techniques into five small-scale (vacuum filtration, pressure-assisted filtration, spin coating, dip coating, drop-casting) and three large-scale (spray coating, bar/doctor blade coating, slot die coating) approaches. The continuous nature of the large-scale approach implies that the GO membranes prepared by this method are less restricted by the equipment’s dimensions but rather the availability of the material, whereas membranes yielded by small-scale methods are predominately limited by the size of the fabrication device. The current review aims to serve as an initial reference to provide a technical overview of preparing GO membranes. We further aim to shift the focus of the audience towards scalable processes and their prospect, which will facilitate the commercialization of GO membranes.

Climate change impacts on rice productivity in the Mekong River Delta

2019 ◽  
Vol 102 ◽  
pp. 71-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caitlin Kontgis ◽  
Annemarie Schneider ◽  
Mutlu Ozdogan ◽  
Christopher Kucharik ◽  
Van Pham Dang Tri ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Change Impacts ◽  
River Delta ◽  
Mekong River ◽  
Mekong River Delta ◽  
Rice Productivity

scholarly journals Temporal Fluctuation of Multidrug Resistant Salmonella Typhi Haplotypes in the Mekong River Delta Region of Vietnam

2011 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. e929 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathryn E. Holt ◽  
Christiane Dolecek ◽  
Tran Thuy Chau ◽  
Pham Thanh Duy ◽  
Tran Thi Phi La ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Salmonella Typhi ◽  
Multidrug Resistant ◽  
River Delta ◽  
Mekong River ◽  
Temporal Fluctuation ◽  
Delta Region ◽  
Mekong River Delta

scholarly journals PELAKSANAAN PELAYANAN PUBLIK DI BIDANG PENGAIRAN IRIGASI PERTANIAN DI KABUPATEN LOMBOK TIMUR DI TINJAU DARI UNDANG¬-UNDANG NOMOR 17 TAHUN 2019 TENTANG SUMBER DAYA AIR

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 78-94
Author(s):  
Zulhadi Lalu
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Irrigation System ◽  
Irrigation Management ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Irrigation Performance ◽  
Irrigation Systems ◽  
Irrigation Development ◽  
Problems And Solutions

Irrigation facilities is one of the key factors in farming, especially for food crop farming, including rice. A smallscale irrigation system has an area of less than 500 hectares, and it is the backbone of family food security which in turn will lead to national food security. Damage irrigation system networks will threaten food production increase. In the future, irrigation infrastructure must be better managed so that agricultural sector can realize agricultural diversification, conserve wider irrigation system and maintain local wisdom and social capital in irrigation management. The objective of the paper is to analyze performance, problems and solutions of small irrigation systems in Indonesia, including small irrigation concepts and understanding, small irrigation performance and development, small irrigation development policies, factors affecting smallscale irrigation development, investments, and prospects. The paper also compares various performances, problems and solutions of small irrigation systems in other countries. Small scale irrigation performance is often better than large-scale irrigation, in the sense of water availability throughout the year and equitable water distribution for all service areas

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