Hoang Thi, Min Ha
- Department of Soil and Environment, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
- World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF)
Research article2014Peer reviewedOpen access
Farmer portfolios, strategic diversity management and climate-change adaptation - implications for policy in Vietnam and Kenya
Hoang Thi, Min Ha; Namirembe, S.; Noordwijk, Meine van; Catacutan, Delia; Öborn, Ingrid; Perez-Teran, A. S.; Nguyen, H. Q.; Dumas-Johansen, M. K.
Abstract
Climate variability is contributing to water-scarcity problems in Kenya and to extreme flooding and drought in Vietnam. This paper compares diversity-based climate adaptation approaches in current land use in the Cam Xuyen district, Ha Tinh province, Central Vietnam and in the Kapingazi river watershed in Embu district, Eastern province, Kenya, in order to understand local responses to climate variability and examine the potential for policy support of diversity management by local people. Literature reviews and trend analysis of local time series of rainfall and temperature were combined with stakeholder interviews and workshops to identify technology and policy options for dealing with current and future climate variability. At all study sites, diversity in land use at farm level and along agriculture-forestry landscape gradients was a key strategy. Policy options to support such an approach could include legalization of agroforestry in Vietnam and a combination of regulations and incentive-based approaches to reconcile household decision-making with longer term and collective actions to benefit landscape diversity in Kenya. Lessons learnt in both study areas about payments for environmental services can be used in policy discussions.
Keywords
agroforestry; climate variability; incentive; Kenya; Vietnam; payment for environmental services; landscape; water scarcity
Published in
Climate and Development
2014, Volume: 6, number: 3, pages: 216-225
Öborn, Ingrid
- Department of Soil and Environment, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
- World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF)
- Department of Soil and Environment, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
SLU Authors
Sustainable Development Goals
Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts
UKÄ Subject classification
Agricultural Science
Publication identifier
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/17565529.2013.857588
Permanent link to this page (URI)
https://res.slu.se/id/publ/65359