Assessing farmers' motives for livelihood diversification in the Mekong Delta: Household life cycle, virtual farm size, and index of integration

Fishponds in Farming Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 261-269

  Bosma, Roel H ^b   Nam, Cao Quoc ^b   Udo, Henk M J ^a   Verreth, Johan A J ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b CAN THO UNIVERSITY   (Viet Nam)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Aquaculture; Household; Lifecycle; Vietnam

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952037415     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.3920/978-90-8686-596-3     Document Type: Chapter

References (17)

1. Bosma, R.H., Cao Quoc Nam, H.M.J. Udo and J.A.J. Verreth, 2006. Farmers' motives for agriculture diversification and its' contribution to livelihoods in the Mekong Delta. Asian Journal of Agriculture and Development (accepted).
2. Bunting, S.W., 2004. Wastewater aquaculture: perpetuating vulnerability or opportunity to enhance poor livelihoods? Aquatic Resources, Culture and Development 1, 51-75.
3. Ellis, F., 1998. Household Strategies and Rural Livelihood Diversification. The Journal of Development Studies 35, 1-38.
4. Holling, C., 1995. Sustainability: The Cross-scale Dimension. In: M. Munasinghe and W. Shearer (Eds.), Defining and Measuring Sustainability. IBRD/WB, Washington, D.C., pp. 65-76.
5. IFPRI, 1995. Rice Market and Monitoring and Policy Options Study. Statististical Publishing House, Hanoi.
6. Linh, N.V., 2001. Agricultural Innovation: Multiple grounds for technology policies in the Red River Delta of Vietnam, WUR, Wageningen, 200 pp.
7. Luu, L.T., 1992. The VAC system in northern Vietnam, Farmer-proven Integrated Agriculture Aquaculture: a technology information kit. IIRR & ICLARM.
8. Luu, L.T., 1999. Small-scale aquaculture in rural development-trends and constraints. In: FAO (Ed.), Report of the Asia-Pacific Fishery Commission Ad hoc Working Group of Experts in Rural Aquaculture. FAO, Bangkok, Thailand.
9. Netting, R.M., 1993. The Technology and Knowledge of Intensive Farm Practices. In: Netting (Ed.), Smallholders, Householders: Farm Families and the Ecology of Intensive, Sustainable Agriculture. Blackwell, Oxford, pp. 28-57.
10. Nhan, D.K., N.T. Duong, M. Verdegem and L. Duong, 2003. Towards Agricultural Diversification and Rural Poverty Alleviation-Development of Agri-Aquaculture farming in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam. In: C. Wollny, et al. (Eds.), Technological and Institutional Innovations for Sustainable Rural Development, Deutscher Tropentag 2003. Klartext GmbH, Gottingen.
11. Nhan, D.K., L.T. Phong, M. Verdegem, L.T. Duong, R.H. Bosma and D.C Little, 2007. Integrated Freshwater Aquaculture, Crop and Animal Farming Systems in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam: determinants and role of the pond. Agricultural Systems (in press).
12. Perz, S.G., 2001. Household Demographic Factors as Life Cycle Determinants of Land Use in the Amazon. Population Research and Policy Review 20, 159-186.
13. Phong, L.T., H.M. Udo, M.E.F. van Mensvoort, L.Q. Tri, R.H. Bosma and D.K. Nhan, 2004. Understanding integrated agriculture-aquaculture systems in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam. In: H.K. Wong, et al. (Eds.), The 11th Animal Science Congress, Asian-Australian Association of Animal Production Societies, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
14. Phong L.T., M. Udo, M.E.F. van Mensvoort, L.Q. Tri and D.K. Nhan, 2005. Dynamics of Integrated Agriculture-Aqauculture Systems in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta. Ìn: Rowlinson et al (ed). Integrating Livestock-Crop Systems to Meet the Challenges of Globalisation, Vol. 2 Proc. of AHAT/BSAS conferennce Nov 14-18, 2005. Khon Kaen, Thailand.
15. Prein, M., 2002. Integration of aquaculture into crop-animal systems in Asia. Agricultural Systems 71, 127-146.
16. Sanh, N.V., V.T. Xuan and T.A. Phong, 1998. History and future of farming systems in the Mekong Delta. In: V.T. Xuan and S.E. Matsui (Eds.), Development of farming systems in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh City Publishing House, pp. 16-80.
17. Zoomers, E.B.A., 1999. Linking livelihood strategies to development. Amsterdam: KIT-Press, 89 pp.