Farmers in the midst of climate change: an intra-household analysis of gender roles on farmers’ choices of adaptation strategies to salinity intrusion in Vietnam

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31 January 2025

Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change

This paper is written from the EfD discussion papers DP 24-02 and DP 22-09, which are among the required deliverables of the research project MS-890 funded by Environment for Development (EfD) at the University of Gothenburg.

Hoa Le Dang, Thuyen Thi Pham, Nhung Thi Hong Pham, Nam Khanh Pham

This study investigates the opinions of wives and husbands in farm households concerning desirable adaptive responses to salinity intrusion. Data were collected via a survey of farm households in three coastal provinces in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam. The sample includes 117 married couples who have been growing rice for several years. The findings indicate that wives and husbands have different opinions on adaptation strategies. Different factors affect wives’ and husbands’ choices of adaptive measures as well as the number of adaptive measures that they would consider taking. We focus on the role of wives’ access to education, participation in formal institutions, and training on adaptation to salinity intrusion because those factors affect both the type and number of adaptive measures that wives indicate they would take. To equalize women’s access to information, wives in farming households should be given timely and adequate support, be encouraged to join more social activities and associations, and receive learning opportunities equal to those for their husbands.

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Le Dang, H., Pham, T. T., Pham, N. T. H., & Pham, N. K. (2025). Farmers in the midst of climate change: an intra-household analysis of gender roles on farmers’ choices of adaptation strategies to salinity intrusion in Vietnam. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, 30(2). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11027-025-10204-1
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