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Thi My Hoa Do1, Thi Thuc Oanh Le1, Thi Hanh Dung Cao1, Nobuko Otsuki1 and Masumi Kano2
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DOI:10.17265/2161-6264/2020.02.003
Affiliation(s)
1. Foundation for International Development/Relief (FIDR), Vietnam Office, Da Nang, Vietnam
2. Foundation for International Development/Relief (FIDR), Tokyo Office, Tokyo, Japan
ABSTRACT
Vietnam ranks as one of the largest rice exporters in the world. Two major deltas, the Mekong River Delta and the Red
River Delta, contribute around 70% of the country’s rice production and 90% of its rice exports,
while people in the mountainous areas of Central Vietnam still suffer from food
shortage for three to four months per year. To combat this incongruous situation, the Foundation for International Development/Relief
(FIDR), a Japan-based non-governmental
organization (NGO), launched a project to introduce system of rice intensification
(SRI) methods and developed the community-based dissemination
(CBD) model. One of the difficulties that the government and aid agencies generally face is to create an effective and sustainable dissemination model,
when the newly-introduced technology is totally unfamiliar to targeted region
and residents. Vietnam consists of 54 ethnic groups, and 14% of the population is
comprised of 53 ethnic minorities, mainly living in mountainous areas. Almost
50% of them still live
below the poverty line and are threatened by
food shortage. Within their cultural context, it is hard to adapt to the new concepts of farming, and they are not used to paddy rice cultivation yet. As the result of
the project, the model successfully reduced the food shortage of 1.5 months
less in average with more than 4,000 households
involved. The model is now turned over to the local government
as a case of sustainable management practices. This paper aimed to examine what made
the model effectively function.
KEYWORDS
System of rice intensification, community-based dissemination model, sustainable management practices.
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