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Robusta's Reckoning – Vietnam’s Coffee Boom Running Out of Forest, Water, and Time
The report shows that the rapid expansion of Robusta coffee production in Vietnam’s Central Highlands over recent decades has been a major driver of natural forest loss,... -
Recognizing Farmer-Managed Seed Systems in Vietnam: A Review of Policy and...
This report reviews Vietnam’s policy and legal frameworks related to farmer-managed seed systems (FMSS), biodiversity conservation, and seed governance. The study finds that... -
Indigenous Fruit and Vegetable Systems in Northern Vietnam: Market...
This report examines indigenous fruit and vegetable systems in Northern Vietnam, focusing on Mai Son district in Son La and Sa Pa in Lao Cai. The study highlights the important... -
Indigenous knowledge and the enhancement of community resilience to climate...
Over centuries, ethnic minority communities in the north of Vietnam have developed complex farming systems well-adapted to their environments. Much of this is based on... -
Indigenous knowledge and the enhancement of community resilience to climate...
Over centuries, ethnic minority communities in the north of Vietnam have developed complex farming systems well-adapted to their environments. Much of this is based on... -
Community adaptation and climate change in the Northern Mountainous Region...
Vietnam is highly vulnerable to climate change, and those most severely affected tend to be members of ethnic minority groups living in poverty in marginalized areas. This paper... -
Social Vulnerability, Climate Change, and Ethnic Minority Communities in the...
Vietnam is highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, and impoverished ethnic minority groups in marginalized areas are more adversely affected. This article focuses on... -
The role of Tay indigenous knowledge in climate change adaptation in the...
Through generations of observation and experimentation, the Tay people of Bac Kan Province in the Northern Mountainous Region of Vietnam have developed complex farming systems,... -
Indigenous knowledge and the enhancement of community resilience to climate...
Over centuries, ethnic minority communities in the north of Vietnam have developed complex farming systems well-adapted to their environments. Much of this is based on... -
An Analysis of Value-Chains and Market Development to Support the...
This guidance memo analyzes pork value chains in Northern Vietnam, focusing on small-scale production by ethnic minority women. It highlights how industrial pork systems... -
Agroecological Rice Farming: An Approach for Economic Benefit and Energy...
Agroecological production strategies not only accomplish goals of food security (SDG #2- zero hunger) but also contribute to mitigating climate change (SGD #12 action for... -
African swine fever and the adaptive capacity of ethnic minority smaller-...
One of the poorest areas of Vietnam, the Northern Mountainous Region (NMR) is largely populated by ethnic minorities.Women in these communities produce heritage breeds of pork... -
Promoting nature-based solutions for climate resilience and low carbon...
This paper describes the initial results of a project focusing on the nature-based solutions (NbS) to climate change and food security among ethnic minority people in Son La... -
Production efficiency and effect of sustainable land management practices on...
Land management is vital for agricultural production and ecosystem service maintenance to mitigate the effects of climate change. This is particularly important in regions with... -
Role of local place-based knowledges in sustaining locally- led adaptation...
Global strategies for adaptation to climate change that are based on western scientific knowledge often encounter difficulties being adopted in non-western contexts in the Asia-... -
Indigenous knowledge and climate change adaptation of ethnic minorities in...
This study focuses on the accumulated indigenous knowledge of the Yao ethnic minority in Bac Kan Province of Vietnam. Through centuries of observation and experimentation, the... -
Analysis of Agroecological Transition at the National Level The Emergence...
Across contrasting farming and sustainability context worldwide, social actors are mobilizing to promote agroecology in order to meet the major challenges of sustainable... -
Toward a sustainable food system and agroecology transition in Vietnam
Even with the impressive results of agricultural growth and food security during last nearly 40 years of Renovation, the Vietnam Socio-economic Development Strategy for... -
A Research Action to Integrate Native Edible Herb Cultivation into...
This July 2025 research brief by SPERI describes an action-research project in Po E commune, Vietnam, integrating native edible herbs into transitioning agroecological farms to... -
Local Knowledge about Ecosystem Services Provided by Trees in Coffee...
In recent decades in northwest Vietnam, Arabica coffee has been grown on sloping land in intensive, full sun monocultures that are not sustainable in the long term and have...
Agroecology Library
Our repository of literature on agroecology on Southeast Asia includes more than 750 documents.