Toward Sustainability or Efficiency: The Case of Smallholder Coffee Farmers in Vietnam
This study attempts to uncover the truth behind an increasing number of smallholder farmers participating in sustainable coffee farming in Vietnam. Using stochastic frontier and cost-benefit analysis, a sample of 316 smallholder farmers in Dak Lak was chosen to analyze the economic impacts of sustai...
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| author | Nguyen Hung Anh Wolfgang Bokelmann Do Thi Nga Nguyen Van Minh |
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| description | This study attempts to uncover the truth behind an increasing number of smallholder farmers participating in sustainable coffee farming in Vietnam. Using stochastic frontier and cost-benefit analysis, a sample of 316 smallholder farmers in Dak Lak was chosen to analyze the economic impacts of sustainable and conventional coffee farming on farmers’ welfare. In addition, we conducted field observation and key informant interviews to describe several farming practices. The results highlight the fact that farmers’ decisions to participate in sustainable coffee farming are mainly driven by economic benefits. Sustainable farming is more cost-effective and profitable than conventional farming, despite the insignificant difference in production efficiency. Improvement of education, farming knowledge, and collective actions could mitigate negative effects of small-scale production for sustainable coffee farmers. Pesticide management, shade coffee encouragement, and reduction of excessive fertilization, over-irrigation, and unproductive coffee varieties are recommended for sustainable development of the sector. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-1ffb5fbace5648c496acdadd0a9251cd2022-12-22T04:20:17ZengMDPI AGEconomies2227-70992019-07-01736610.3390/economies7030066economies7030066Toward Sustainability or Efficiency: The Case of Smallholder Coffee Farmers in VietnamNguyen Hung Anh0Wolfgang Bokelmann1Do Thi Nga2Nguyen Van Minh3Department of Agricultural Economics, Faculty of Life Sciences, Humboldt University of Berlin, 10115 Berlin, GermanyDepartment of Agricultural Economics, Faculty of Life Sciences, Humboldt University of Berlin, 10115 Berlin, GermanyFaculty of Economics, Tay Nguyen University; Dak Lak 630000, VietnamFaculty of Agriculture and Forestry, Tay Nguyen University, Dak Lak 630000, VietnamThis study attempts to uncover the truth behind an increasing number of smallholder farmers participating in sustainable coffee farming in Vietnam. Using stochastic frontier and cost-benefit analysis, a sample of 316 smallholder farmers in Dak Lak was chosen to analyze the economic impacts of sustainable and conventional coffee farming on farmers’ welfare. In addition, we conducted field observation and key informant interviews to describe several farming practices. The results highlight the fact that farmers’ decisions to participate in sustainable coffee farming are mainly driven by economic benefits. Sustainable farming is more cost-effective and profitable than conventional farming, despite the insignificant difference in production efficiency. Improvement of education, farming knowledge, and collective actions could mitigate negative effects of small-scale production for sustainable coffee farmers. Pesticide management, shade coffee encouragement, and reduction of excessive fertilization, over-irrigation, and unproductive coffee varieties are recommended for sustainable development of the sector.https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7099/7/3/66sustainableconventionalsmallholder farmertechnical efficiencystochastic frontier |
| spellingShingle | Nguyen Hung Anh Wolfgang Bokelmann Do Thi Nga Nguyen Van Minh Toward Sustainability or Efficiency: The Case of Smallholder Coffee Farmers in Vietnam Economies sustainable conventional smallholder farmer technical efficiency stochastic frontier |
| title | Toward Sustainability or Efficiency: The Case of Smallholder Coffee Farmers in Vietnam |
| title_full | Toward Sustainability or Efficiency: The Case of Smallholder Coffee Farmers in Vietnam |
| title_fullStr | Toward Sustainability or Efficiency: The Case of Smallholder Coffee Farmers in Vietnam |
| title_full_unstemmed | Toward Sustainability or Efficiency: The Case of Smallholder Coffee Farmers in Vietnam |
| title_short | Toward Sustainability or Efficiency: The Case of Smallholder Coffee Farmers in Vietnam |
| title_sort | toward sustainability or efficiency the case of smallholder coffee farmers in vietnam |
| topic | sustainable conventional smallholder farmer technical efficiency stochastic frontier |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7099/7/3/66 |
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