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An Analysis Of Economic And Environmental Impacts For The Transition To Organic Tea Production In The Thai Nguyen Province Of Vietnam
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Book Synopsis An Analysis of Economic and Environmental Impacts for the Transition to Organic Tea Production in the Thai Nguyen Province of Vietnam by : Nghia Dai Tran
Download or read book An Analysis of Economic and Environmental Impacts for the Transition to Organic Tea Production in the Thai Nguyen Province of Vietnam written by Nghia Dai Tran and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Thai Nguyen province is well-known for its high quality tea in Vietnam. In order to improve the quality of tea products that satisfy health requirement standards, a recent movement from conventional tea production to organic tea production has occurred. To analyze gains and losses from this conversion, impacts to the environment should be evaluated and analyzed to determine both short term and long term effects on tea growers in particular and on society as a whole.
Book Synopsis Transition to Organic Tea Production in Thai Nguyen Province, Vietnam by : Nghia Dai Tran
Download or read book Transition to Organic Tea Production in Thai Nguyen Province, Vietnam written by Nghia Dai Tran and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Agricultural Innovation in Asia by : Teruaki Nanseki
Download or read book Agricultural Innovation in Asia written by Teruaki Nanseki and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-03-20 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers the major findings of almost all types of innovation in agriculture that includes product and process innovation, marketing and organizational innovation, and extended to institutional changes and social welfare in agricultural innovation in Asia. Specially, this book provides the measuring of these types of agricultural innovation on production, economics, and social welfare. Furthermore, this book provides the overview of smart farming in two advanced countries in Asia in this field, which are China and Japan along with its innovation. This book also aims to give an overview on the development of agricultural innovation in the era of digital agriculture over the world.
Book Synopsis Economic Analysis of Farmers' Decisions by : The Nguyen To
Download or read book Economic Analysis of Farmers' Decisions written by The Nguyen To and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this thesis is to identify and investigate some limits regarding recent empirical and theoretical contributions in the field of farmers' behavior as related to tea production in Vietnam. Chapter 1 provides a quick overview about tea production in the world and in Vietnam. Chapter 2 in our thesis analyzes the technical efficiency of the tea production in Vietnam. This study finds that the average technical efficiency of tea production is very low (only about 41\%). Chapter 3 presents a theoretical model in order to figure out the farmer's decision to adopt for organic production. The decision concerns the allocation of lands for conventional and organic products.It shows the importance of (i) the available quantity of land devoted to agricultural plants, (ii) the productivity of the organic products, (iii) the incentive mechanism, and finally (iv) the constraints on output of organic products. In Chapter 4, we compared two version of econometric model: a model with household's unobserved heterogeneity and a model without unobserved heterogeneity. We found that the former model is preferred. The results revealed that some important factors which influence the adoption of tea varieties included tea income, presence of elderly, household size and use of organic fertilizers. In Chapter 5, we focus on investigating the impacts of political connections both farmer's total income and tea income. The findings indicate the significant role of political connection on improving farming households' income.
Book Synopsis On the Frontiers of Climate and Environmental Change by : Ole Bruun
Download or read book On the Frontiers of Climate and Environmental Change written by Ole Bruun and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-29 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is intended to fill a gap in climate-change literature by providing a comprehensive regional study and identifying the overall adaptation challenges in a real-life context. The way in which possible climate impacts interact with a range of other challenges in agriculture, forestry, disaster planning, health care, general economic development, and common livelihoods are presented, and it is argued that greater realism and broader vision are needed in order to address the climate challenge. For instance, unsuitable land- use changes in both coastal and highland regions may increase the vulnerability of rural people, many of whom are already living on the fringes. The author(s) also state(s) that, depending on context, it may be pertinent to address short-term and unsustainable resource use, irregularities in local land management, ineffective governance and social inequality, which are all likely to aggravate the impact of external climate and weather. Not least, it is imperative to integrate general environmental management with any climate-change adaptation effort.
Book Synopsis Robustness Analysis of Organic Technology Adoption by : Nicolas Lampach
Download or read book Robustness Analysis of Organic Technology Adoption written by Nicolas Lampach and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Increasing consumer awareness on sustainable and healthy food choices gave rise to a growing demand for organic tea in the past decades. Most of this demand is met by imports from developing countries. This article examines the main factors affecting the choice of farm households to adopt organic tea production in Northern Vietnam. We apply a logit model to survey data from 241 Vietnamese tea farming households. We assess the robustness of the results by addressing three important statistical issues: (i) regressor endogeneity, (ii) unobserved heterogeneity at farm level and (iii) missing values. The main results are chiefly robust and largely in line with the theory. We find that farm households with higher revenues, and located in rich natural and physical environments are significantly more inclined to adopt organic tea production. Furthermore, the analysis reveals that farm households who are consulted by extension agents and belong to a teaassociation increase the odds for the adoption of organic tea cultivation.
Book Synopsis Bio-Economic Assessment of Climate-Smart Tea Production in the Northern Mountainous Region of Vietnam by : Tran The Tuong
Download or read book Bio-Economic Assessment of Climate-Smart Tea Production in the Northern Mountainous Region of Vietnam written by Tran The Tuong and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agricultural production in the face of climate change requires a climate-smart transformation and reorientation at multiple scales. Vietnam is one of the developing countries that is agriculture-based and severely affected by climate change; therefore it is crucial that the agricultural system advances toward this transformation. While climate-smart agriculture has gained a significant attention in global fora, context-specific evidence is still scarce in Vietnam. This study examines climate-smart agriculture potentials in tea production systems in the northern mountainous region of Vietnam. Since the climate-smart agriculture concept is multidimensional, which includes food security and adaptation and mitigation, an interdisciplinary analytical framework is employed in this research to assess the economic and biophysical dimensions. Enterprise budgets and representative farms (i.e., farms or households having one or more activities or enterprises) are developed for tea and alternative crops, as well as livestock production, to analyze the productivity dimension of food security. In evaluating the adaptation potential of tea production, local farmers' perceptions and experiences of extreme weather events are combined with ERA-Interim data (1989-2013) and household survey data on income levels (reanalysis dataset taken from the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts; ERA stands for ECMWF Reanalysis). Greenhouse gas emissions and carbon sequestration potentials are estimated through partial Carbon Footprint Life Cycle Assessment. Results show that tea production systems generate net margins, returns to capital, and family labor higher than the alternatives. Farmers, therefore, have high incentives to switch from other crops to tea production. In the face of climate change, tea has shown a strong biophysical adaptive capacity compared to other crops in the northern mountainous region. Tea production systems have a high capability for carbon storage. Evidence of strong synergies between food security and mitigation and adaptation is demonstrated for tea production systems in the northern mountainous region, and potential tradeoffs were highlighted, where relevant.
Book Synopsis Developing Tea Market Through Analyzing the Value Chain of Vietnam Tea Industry by : Nguyen Cong Bien
Download or read book Developing Tea Market Through Analyzing the Value Chain of Vietnam Tea Industry written by Nguyen Cong Bien and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nowadays, the international trade in agricultural products is very well-organized, largely controlled by multinational supermarket chains. Because of increased consumer knowledge, the supermarket's demand for quality of agricultural products, which are based on the consumer needs in developed countries, is more and more high-required and becoming a technical barrier of many developing countries considering agricultural exports as a lever for economic development. Tea is identified as a major export product of Vietnam by the government. Tea production is an economic sector in the production development for rural agricultural area in the mountainous midland where tea is as a strategic product for export, helps to earn foreign currency for the country, and create employment for huge workforce. Moreover, the tea industry which is also one of the potential industries would increase a quantity (low tea yields), a quality (due to low quality of tea) and a selling price when the tea quality increases, the type of tea is increasing, then the price increases. Because tea plays the important role as one of Vietnam's important export agricultural products, it is definitely necessary for research investment to develop policies and solutions for developing the value chain of tea and increasing the added value of tea, particularly in intense competition of the world tea market where the demand for this product is decreasing due to the global economic crisis, and the number of suppliers participating in the tea market is increasing and becoming more and more professional. This article confirms that the development of tea export market of Vietnam is a right direction. The article shows that enhancing the value chain of tea industry is one of the factors promoting the development of the Vietnam tea market during the period of international integration. The paper, thence, proposes some solutions to develop the tea market Vietnam in the future.
Book Synopsis The Institutional Economics of Green Production by : Viet Quoc Nguyen
Download or read book The Institutional Economics of Green Production written by Viet Quoc Nguyen and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The paper examines how a new informal institutions - 'Fair-Trade' - the new trend of production and trade that businesses, producers and farmers around the world participating into, apply in practice of agricultural production in Vietnam for the reality of CSR business and green economy. By reviewing its principles and practices, we demonstrate that Fair-Trade is the power of or more precisely the influence of 'soft power' of the informal institutions which supplement the law and provisions of the government in developing countries to overcome the failures of Free-Trade and to promote green/sustainable economic development. We use the case study of Organic Shan Tee - Van Chan (within 4 communes of Yen Bai provinces) to provide an overview of the status of Fair-trade participation as well as its benefits that people earn in the northern provinces of Vietnam. We found that although strong commitment now involved in Fair-trade among regional cooperatives and people's participation but there are still some problem of collective action and market inefficiency that create obstacles for their business. Thus the paper boldly proposes a number of policy and practical recommendations to help organic cooperative Shan Tee - Van Chan (Yen Bai) in particular and all agricultural sector of Vietnam generally easy to participate into Fair-Trade as well as promote 'maximum benefits' that Fair- trade offers.
Book Synopsis Measuring Socioeconomic Effects of Environmental Disasters by : Nguyen Dinh Tuan Vuong (Ph.D.)
Download or read book Measuring Socioeconomic Effects of Environmental Disasters written by Nguyen Dinh Tuan Vuong (Ph.D.) and published by . This book was released on 2024 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation consists of three chapters. Each chapter is a study that I have conducted during my time at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The common theme of these chapters is measuring the socioeconomic impacts of spatially distributed shocks with a focus on environmental disasters. The first chapter studies the legacy of herbicidal warfare deployed during the Second Indochina War on exposed communities. The second chapter documents the contemporary changes in earnings and employment of affected saltwater fishers after the 2016 Vietnam Marine Life Disaster. The third chapter explains models using distance to geographical objects as an instrumental variable, a popular method in applied microeconomics.In the first chapter, I estimate the persistent health effects of exposure to dioxin (2,3,7,8-Tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin) from the Second Indochina War on exposed communities. During the war, the US military sprayed about 20 million gallons of herbicides for defoliation and crop destruction. About two-thirds of the herbicides were Agent Orange, which contained dioxin. Exploiting the concealment of the information on dioxin contamination from the general public by herbicide producers, I compare the effects of dioxin-contaminated and dioxin-free herbicides that had similar functions and find that highly exposed communities still exhibit worse health outcomes than lightly exposed communities. I also find that human capital accumulation, labor outcomes, and economic activities are negatively associated with dioxin exposure. Even though herbicidal warfare was unique to the Second Indochina War, the insight from this paper spreads beyond this context, because i) there are similar situations, such as the military burn pits in US military bases in the Middle East, and ii) dioxin and dioxin-alike chemicals could come from industrial sources. The second chapter is the result of my collaboration with Trung Hoang, Duong Le, and Ha Nguyen, in which each of us contributed equally to conceptualization, data analysis, writing, and editing. This project analyzes the impacts of the 2016 Vietnam Marine Life Disaster, referred to as the Formosa disaster in the chapter. In April 2016, pollution from the Formosa steel plant caused mass fish deaths to wash ashore in four provinces in central Vietnam, including Ha Tinh, Quang Binh, Quang Tri, and Thua Thien Hue. Applying the difference-in-difference method, we studied the impacts on the local saltwater fishery industry and the coping mechanisms of affected fishers using two control groups. The geographic control group consists of fishers in unaffected provinces from Phu Yen to the south. The industry control group consists of workers in unaffected industries, including manufacturing, construction, and retail, who reside in the four affected provinces. The estimation results show a heterogeneous change in fishing activities and the employment and income of fishers after the event. The impacts hit downstream provinces, Quang Tri and Thua Thien Hue, harder than upstream provinces, Ha Tinh and Quang Binh. Satellite data suggest that the affected upstream fishers traveled north to unaffected waters to continue fishing, explaining the lessened impact on them. We published these results in the Journal of Development Economics. The third chapter focuses on models using distance to geographical objects as an instrumental variable. Many applied microeconomics papers employ this method to estimate the long-term socioeconomic impacts of historical or contemporary shocks, which may include environmental disasters. A common argument for instrument validity is the exogeneity of instrumented geographical objects. However, the analysis reveals that an IV model divides the sample into two groups based on the residual of regressing the geographic distance IV on covariates: observations with positive residuals versus negative residuals. Within each subsample, the model assigns more weight to observations with higher absolute values of the residual linearly. Since a geographical distance IV model involves a mechanical comparison between two specific groups of locations, defending the instrument validity requires background information on related areas. The third chapter is the result of an ongoing research project. During the first and second years of my Ph.D. studies, I worked to address the impacts of a newly built Ho Chi Minh Highway on local communities and deforestation. The chosen method involved using the distance to the Ho Chi Minh Trail, the military trail used by the North Vietnamese Army during the Second Indochina War, as an instrumental variable. However, I had to delay this project because I realized that I did not fully understand the method. This chapter provides the answers I wish I had known, and I believe it will benefit other researchers in similar situations.
Book Synopsis Manufacturing Productivity and Firm Ownership in a Transition Economy by : Premachandra Athukorala
Download or read book Manufacturing Productivity and Firm Ownership in a Transition Economy written by Premachandra Athukorala and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Challenges of Highland Development in Vietnam by : A. Terry Rambo
Download or read book The Challenges of Highland Development in Vietnam written by A. Terry Rambo and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Stress Physiology of Tea in the Face of Climate Change by : Wen-Yan Han
Download or read book Stress Physiology of Tea in the Face of Climate Change written by Wen-Yan Han and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-11-23 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the existing knowledge regarding the effect of global climate change on tea plant physiology, biochemistry, and metabolism as well as economic and societal aspects of the tea industry. Specifically, this book synthesizes recent advances in the physiological and molecular mechanisms of the responses of tea plants to various abiotic and biotic stressors including high temperature, low temperature or freezing, drought, low light, UV radiation, elevated CO2, ozone, nutrient deficiency, insect herbivory, and pathogenic agents. This book also discusses challenges and potential management strategies for sustaining tea yield and quality in the face of climate change. Dr. Wen-Yan Han is a Professor and Dr. Xin Li is an Associate Professor at the Tea Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (TRI, CAAS), Hangzhou, PR China. Dr. Golam Jalal Ahammed is an Associate Professor at the Department of Horticulture, College of Forestry, Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang, PR China.
Book Synopsis Characteristics, Costs, and Issues for Organic Dairy Farming by : William D. McBride
Download or read book Characteristics, Costs, and Issues for Organic Dairy Farming written by William D. McBride and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2010-03 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organic milk production has been one of the fastest growing segments of organic ag. in the U.S. in recent years. Despite the growing number of organic dairy operations (ODO), the characteristics of ODO and the relative costs of organic and conventional milk production have been difficult to analyze. This study examines the structure, costs, and challenges of ODO. The analysis addresses economies of size, regional differences, and pasture use in ODO and compares organic and conventional milk production costs. The findings suggest that economic forces have made ODO more like conventional operations and that the future structure of the industry may depend on the interpretation and implementation of new organic pasture rules. Illustrations.
Book Synopsis World Development Report 2020 by : World Bank
Download or read book World Development Report 2020 written by World Bank and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2019-11-19 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global value chains (GVCs) powered the surge of international trade after 1990 and now account for almost half of all trade. This shift enabled an unprecedented economic convergence: poor countries grew rapidly and began to catch up with richer countries. Since the 2008 global financial crisis, however, the growth of trade has been sluggish and the expansion of GVCs has stalled. Meanwhile, serious threats have emerged to the model of trade-led growth. New technologies could draw production closer to the consumer and reduce the demand for labor. And trade conflicts among large countries could lead to a retrenchment or a segmentation of GVCs. World Development Report 2020: Trading for Development in the Age of Global Value Chains examines whether there is still a path to development through GVCs and trade. It concludes that technological change is, at this stage, more a boon than a curse. GVCs can continue to boost growth, create better jobs, and reduce poverty provided that developing countries implement deeper reforms to promote GVC participation; industrial countries pursue open, predictable policies; and all countries revive multilateral cooperation.
Book Synopsis The Adoption of Agricultural Technology by :
Download or read book The Adoption of Agricultural Technology written by and published by CIMMYT. This book was released on 1993 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Global Development of Organic Agriculture by : Niels Halberg
Download or read book Global Development of Organic Agriculture written by Niels Halberg and published by CABI. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agriculture and food systems, including organic agriculture, are undergoing a technological and structural modernization strongly influenced by growing globalization. Organic agricultural movements can be seen as a tangible effort towards more sustainable development. However, there are large differences between, on the one hand, industrialized farming and consumption based on global food chains and, on the other, smallholder farmers and resource poor people primarily linked in local food markets in low-income countries. This book provides an overview of the potential role of organic agriculture in a global perspective. The book discusses in-depth political ecology, ecological justice, ecological economics and free trade with new insights on the challenges for organic agriculture. This is followed by the potential role of organic agriculture for improving soil fertility, nutrient cycling and food security and reducing veterinary medicine use, together with discussions of research needs and the importance of non-certified organic agriculture.
