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Highlights: Quantitative evidence from a cross-country sample of 4772 rural households. Smaller farms (2 ha) benefit most from farm diversity. Dietary diversity increases with...

Though fisheries can contribute to nutritional needs, food security, poverty alleviation, and sustainable natural resource management in many developing countries, their role in the achievement...

Vietnam is a country on the move and in transition. Indicators are pointing in the right direction, with many positive economic and social developments. The amount of progress that Vietnam has achieved in less...

This scoping study report provides critical input to AMD-Focus Area 3 for a digital landscape and users’ needs assessment to be conducted in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Myanmar by prioritizing...

Highlights We analyze agrarian change associated with hybrid maize farming in Myanmar. Larger farmers tend to profit more from hybrid maize than smaller...

The Vietnamese fisheries sector, including both marine fisheries and aquaculture, has made spectacular progress in recent years, becoming one of the top seafood producing and exporting...

As the two-year Coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis appears to wane, new economic shocks have cast shadows over the global economy heightening uncertainty about the short-to-medium path...

Highlights We report on 9201 interviews with smallholder farmers on the effects of COVID-19 and associated restrictions during 2020. Effects attributed to restrictions were widespread and...

The COVID-19 pandemic placed unprecedented short-term stresses on food supply chains around the world. However, rapid responses by both private-sector actors and policy makers mostly...

Northwest Vietnam is one of the poorest regions in the country. Cultivating cash crops on sloping land in Northwest Vietnam has resulted in soil erosion, landslides, declining soil...