Addressing Smallholder Resilience in Coffee Production in the Central Highlands, Viet Nam: The Business Case for Intercropped Coffee Production - Executive Summary

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dc.contributor.authorUnited Nations Environment Programme
dc.contributor.organizationEcosystems Division
dc.coverage.spatialViet Nam
dc.date.accessioned2020-07-03T12:38:13Z
dc.date.available2020-07-03T12:38:13Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.descriptionCoffee production in the Central Highlands faces a multitude of challenges; decades of intensive cultivation and expansion onto marginal land has degraded the soil quality and left smallholders less resilient to both climate change and vulnerable to fluctuations in the price of coffee. As a result, many smallholders are in a negative spiral of declining yields leading to the increasing application of inputs to compensate, which is further reducing their already limited margins. This analysis presents the business case for sustainable Robusta coffee cultivation in the Central Highlands region of Vietnam. In recent years, intercropping models involving coffee interspersed with shade or fruit trees have demonstrated their potential to generate multiple benefits to smallholders and the environment. This analysis focuses on the economic benefits of transitioning from an intensive coffee cultivation model to three different intercropping models: avocado, durian and cassia siamea and pepper, and makes recommendations concerning the transition pathway that will be most accessible to smallholders.en
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dc.identifier.urihttps://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/32921
dc.languageEnglish
dc.page.number3 p.
dc.rights.accessLevelPublic
dc.subjectagriculture
dc.subjectcoffee
dc.subjectagricultural production
dc.subjectavocado
dc.subjectAdaptation
dc.subjectAgriculture
dc.subject.sdgSDG 12 - Responsible Consumption and Production
dc.subject.sdgSDG 13 - Climate Action
dc.subject.themenatural areas
dc.subject.themelandscape
dc.subject.themeecosystems
dc.titleAddressing Smallholder Resilience in Coffee Production in the Central Highlands, Viet Nam: The Business Case for Intercropped Coffee Production - Executive Summaryen
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