Agricultural transformation in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta in the new era

Title
Agricultural transformation in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta in the new era
Author(s)
LienLe, Thi Ha
Dang, Khim Khoi
Moss, Jonathan
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0462-8340
Email: jmoss7@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:jmoss7
Nguyen, Hong Quan
Kristiansen, Paul
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2116-0663
Email: pkristi2@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:pkristi2
Editor
Editor(s): Hong Quan Nguyen, Heiko Apel, Quang Bao Le, Minh Tu Nguyen and Venkataramana Sridhar
Type of document
Book Chapter
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Elsevier Inc
Place of publication
The Netherlands
Edition
1
Series
Ecohydrology from Catchment to Coast
DOI
10.1016/B978-0-323-90814-6.00014-0
UNE publication id
une:1959.11/61667
Abstract

The Vietnamese Mekong River Delta (VMD) is the world's third-largest delta, located in the Lower Mekong Basin. Situated in the humid tropics, the VMD has favorable conditions for diverse tropical agriculture, which has been experiencing a dynamic transformation from primary production to strategically commercial production, providing the whole nation with food security and exports. However, past successes of extensive growth have come at environmental costs, including changing natural hydrological regimes, deforestation, depletion of natural resources and biodiversity, land degradation, land subsidence, water pollution, drought, and salinity intrusion. In the face of climate change and complex upstream developments, it is recommended that agriculture in the VMD follow a transformation pathway that includes nature-based agricultural land use change, circular agricultural and agroecology, combined green and gray engineering, and market-based agribusiness in order to ensure environmental and socio-economic sustainability.

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Citation
The Mekong River Basin; Ecohydrological Complexity from Catchment to Coast, p. 559-617
ISBN
9780323914505
9780323908146
Start page
559
End page
617

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