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This research aims to investigate small farm households' coping strategies for the sustainable livelihoods after their agricultural land was converted for the industrial zone establishment in Vietnam. The survey data from forty farm households with different state of agricultural land conversion reveal that those farm households encountered many difficulties in their livelihoods after the loss of land since agricultural land was their key livelihood asset. Various coping strategies were applied by the farm households to overcome the difficulties. Of those, more diversification of income generation activities, reduced animal raising scale, more efficient use of available financial resource, and increased investment for training and education for young members were found to be the major coping strategies of the most farm households.
About the author
Nguyen Mau Dung es profesor titular de la Facultad de Economía y Desarrollo Rural de la Universidad de Agricultura de Hanoi, en Viet Nam. Obtuvo su doctorado en políticas agrícolas y gestión de explotaciones agrícolas en la Universidad de Kyushu (Japón) en 2001. Sus investigaciones se centraron en la gestión de las explotaciones agrícolas, el desarrollo rural y la ordenación del medio ambiente en Viet Nam.
