This report examines the adoption of Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) in Vietnam’s Central Highlands, the country’s largest coffee-producing region. Based on surveys with 404 farmers in Dak Lak, Gia Lai, and Lam Dong, the study highlights increasing climate risks such as drought, irregular rainfall, pests, and soil degradation that threaten coffee productivity and livelihoods. Farmers are adopting practices including water-saving irrigation, intercropping, agroforestry, mulching, and soil conservation, but adoption remains uneven, especially among ethnic minority and low-income households. Major barriers include high investment costs, limited finance, weak extension services, labor shortages, and insufficient policy implementation. The report emphasizes the need for affordable credit, climate insurance, technical training, localized climate information, stronger cooperatives, and market incentives. It concludes that scaling CSA requires coordinated action among government agencies, private companies, cooperatives, NGOs, and research institutions to improve resilience, sustainability, and long-term competitiveness of Vietnam’s coffee sector.
