Better access to social activities and education would improve women’s adaptation to salinity intrusion

Key Messages

• Salinity (salt) intrusion has emerged as one of the pressing concerns for agriculture in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam.
• There is a growing interest in gender differences in adaptation to salinity intrusion, due to the great differences in both knowledge and access to various resources between male and female farmers.
• Wives and husbands are different in factors affecting their choices of adaptive measures as well as the number of adaptive measures that they intend to take.
• Access to education, participation in formal institutions, and training on adaptation to salinity intrusion affect both the type and number of adaptive measures that wives intend to take.
• Wives should be given timely and adequate support, encouraged to join more social activities and associations, and receive learning opportunities equal to those for husbands.