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The Mekong Delta of Vietnam stands to be most in danger in the time of accelerating and intersecting impacts from...
Vietnam’s escalating environmental challenges, particularly climate change, have spurred the nation’s youth to actively seek solutions to environmental injustice and...
With its potential to foster Chinese-backed economic enclaves and military installations, the canal poses a foreseeable challenge to Vietnam’s national...
Nguyen Minh Quang*, Bao Quoc Duong**, Chau Ngan Nguyen-Vo, Joop de Wit Asian mega-deltas face a ‘triple crisis’ of climate hazards, adverse impacts of top-down adaptation policies, and agrarian market liberalization, threatening millions of resource-based farmers. While farmers’ vulnerabilities have been extensively documented, this paper examines an emerging small-scale farmers group in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta, which will be termed ‘innovative farmers’, who are shown to successfully navigate these pressures and thrive in hostile conditions... Nguyen Minh Quang*, Nguyen Van Minh, Nguyen Vo Chau Ngan & Martha Lerski Nguyen Minh Quang*, Nozomi Kawarazuka, Thien Ngoc Nguyen Pham**, Thu Hoai Nguyen**, Hieu Minh Le**, Tho Thi Minh Tran**, Thoa Thi Ngoc Huynh** Recognition that not every climate adaptation policy is a good one has shifted attention to new tools and methods to measure the adequacy and effectiveness of adaptation policies. This study aims to propose and apply and applies an innovative adaptation policy assessment framework to identify the extent to which climate adaptation policies in Vietnam exhibit conditions that are likely to ensure a sufficient, credible and effective adaptation... Nguyen Minh Quang*, Tran Thi Minh Tho** Đảm bảo bình đẳng giới không chỉ giúp phụ nữ thể hiện quyền cơ bản của con người mà còn là điều kiện để thúc đẩy phát triển xã hội và tăng trưởng kinh tế trước những thách thức của biến đổi khí hậu (BĐKH). Tuy nhiên, ở Việt Nam, phụ nữ thường được coi là “phái yếu” và ít được coi là “đối tượng chủ động” trong quá trình đổi mới công nghệ và thích ứng với BĐKH. Do đó, việc lồng ghép chính sách bình đẳng giới và đổi mới công nghệ sẽ là nền tảng quan trọng để khẳng định vai trò của bình đẳng giới trong ứng phó với BĐKH và đổi mới công nghệ ở khu vực nông thôn Việt Nam...
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From victims to change agents: farmer-driven climate action and implications for policy reforms in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta
Taylor & Francis, 07 May 2026
DOI: 10.1080/17565529.2026.2667498
* Co-founder of MEF
** MEF Research Assistant
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Adaptation for whom? Understanding the impacts of dyke policies on small-scale farmers in Ca Mau Province of Vietnam
Climate Policy, 1-15 (2025)
DOI: 10.1080/14693062.2024.2447495
* Co-founder of MEF
This paper provides new insights into how nationally-led climate adaptation policies that prioritize built structures such as dykes and sluices have differently impacted small-scale farmer livelihoods in the Mekong Delta. The results reveal that in the dyke era, small-scale farmers were shown to have failed to cope with the triple challenge of climate change effects, adverse impacts of dyke policies and the market-infused agricultural transition in rural communes...
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Why adaptation falters: principles for climate change adaptation policy assessment in Vietnam
International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management, (2024): 16(1)
DOI: 10.1108/IJCCSM-05-2023-0063
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** MEF Research Assistant
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Thúc đẩy bình đẳng giới và đổi mới công nghệ ở khu vực nông thôn
Vietnam Science and Technology, 6 September 2024
* Co-founder of MEF
** MEF Research Assistant
