Chapter 5
Linkages Between Agriculture, Poverty
and Natural Resource Use in Mountainous
Regions of Southeast Asia
Camille Saint-Macary, Alwin Keil, Thea Nielsen, Athena Birkenberg,
Le Thi Ai Van, Dinh Thi Tuyet Van, Susanne Ufer, Pham Thi My Dung,
Franz Heidhues, and Manfred Zeller
Abbreviations
HH
Household
MOLISA Ministry of Labor Invalids and Social Affairs (Vietnam)
MPL
Multiple Price List
SCT
Soil Conservation Technologies
USD
US Dollar
VBARD
Vietnamese Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development
VBSP
Vietnamese Bank for Social Policies
VND
Vietnamese Dong
WTP
Willingness to Pay
C. Saint-Macary (*) • A. Keil • T. Nielsen • A. Birkenberg • L.T. Ai Van • D.T. Tuyet Van •
S. Ufer • F. Heidhues • M. Zeller
Department of Rural Development Theory and Policy (490a), University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart,
Germany
e-mail: saint-macary@dial.prd.fr
P. Thi My Dung
Department of Economics, Hanoi University of Agriculture, Hanoi, Vietnam
H.L. Fro ¨hlich et al. (eds.), Sustainable Land Use and Rural Development in Southeast
Asia: Innovations and Policies for Mountainous Areas, Springer Environmental
Science and Engineering, DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-33377-4_5,
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