Pham Thi Ly <br/><br/>
Analyzing the impacts of climate change on farmers' livelihood in the center of Vietnam :  case study in Nui Thanh District, Quang Nam Province 

 - Pathum Thani :  Asian Institute of Technology,  2012 
 - 97 p. :  ill., maps, charts 
 - Thesis ;  no. NR-12-01 .
 - Asian Institute of Technology.  Thesis ;  no. NR-12-01 .
<br/><br/> A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements fo rthe degree of Master of Science in Natural Resources Management, School of Environment, Resources and Development 
<br/><br/>Thesis (M. Sc.) - Asian Institute of Technology, 2012 
<br/><br/> In  recent  years,  climate changehas  becomea  big  problemindeveloping  countries  all  overthe world, especially in Vietnam. The study about the impacts of climate change on farmerslivelihood  is  notconducted  atlocal  scaleinVietnam.  This  studyanalysesthe  impacts  ofclimate change on agricultural livelihoodsin Nui Thanh district-a coastal district of centralVietnam wheresomany natural disastershitannually.This study persued to seek followingqueries  including  the  trends  in  climatic  factors,  their  effects  on  agriculture  livelihood  oflocal  farmers,  impactson  agriculture  productivity  as  perceived  by  the  farmers  on  theirlivelihood,  and  their  adaptive  measures  to  climate  change.First,this  study  found  out  thetrendsinincrease  of  some  climate  factors  such  as  average  annual  temperature,  maximumaverageetemperature, total of annual rainfall and so on but the changes are not much. Thesechanges  have  affected  significantly  on  agriculture  livelihood  of  local  farmers.  With  otherfactors, these changes contribute to reduce productivity and quality of agriculture products.The  farmers  have  perceivedabout  local  climate  change  and  impacts  of  changes  to  theirlivelihood  in  part  closely  to  analysis  from  secondary  data.  Thus,  with  direction  of  localgovernment, they applied some measures to adapt to climate change and at first perceptionexpected outcome. However, due toclimate are more unstable in some recent years, income from agriculture  islow  and  the  households  that  with  agriculture  is  main  livelihood  areusually  poor.In  order  to  reduce  uncertainties  from  climate  change,  some  activities  aresuggested by authority, such as water storage and augmentation, mangrove forest plantation,developing  adaptive  suitable  varieties,  agriculture  practice  and  regular  training  should  becarried out. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Farmers--Vietnam--Quang Nam<br/>Climatic changes--Vietnam--Quang Nam