Striking a Balance : Managing El Niño and La Niña in Vietnam’s Agriculture

This report’s purpose is to help Vietnam policy makers and stakeholders prepare for future El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) events. It does this by providing information on ENSO’s agricultural, economic, and poverty impacts in Vietnam and outlin...

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Main Authors: Sutton, William R., Srivastava, Jitendra P., Rosegrant, Mark, Thurlow, James, Sebastian, Leocardio
Format: Report
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2019
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Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/769121554207974851/Striking-a-Balance-Managing-El-Niño-and-La-Niña-in-Vietnam-s-Agriculture
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spelling okr-10986-315242021-10-25T12:34:49Z Striking a Balance : Managing El Niño and La Niña in Vietnam’s Agriculture Sutton, William R. Srivastava, Jitendra P. Rosegrant, Mark Thurlow, James Sebastian, Leocardio EL NINO LA NINA CLIMATE IMPACT EXTREME WEATHER DROUGHT FLOOD RAINFALL AGRICULTURE DISASTER RISK MANAGEMENT DISASTER PREPAREDNESS NATURAL DISASTERS This report’s purpose is to help Vietnam policy makers and stakeholders prepare for future El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) events. It does this by providing information on ENSO’s agricultural, economic, and poverty impacts in Vietnam and outlining ways forward. The report finds that ENSO’s impacts vary from region to region and harm Vietnam’s people, economy, and agricultural sector. The country prepared for, and responded to, the 2014–2016 El Niño, but there is still room to improve upon these actions. Being proactive to prepare for ENSO is important because of Vietnam’shigh exposure to climate shocks, the prominence of the agricultural sector in the national economy, the rural population’s climate vulnerability, and the lack of researchon ENSO in Vietnam. 2019-04-11T19:12:30Z 2019-04-11T19:12:30Z 2019-04 Report http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/769121554207974851/Striking-a-Balance-Managing-El-Niño-and-La-Niña-in-Vietnam-s-Agriculture http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31524 English CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Economic & Sector Work :: Other Agriculture Study Economic & Sector Work East Asia and Pacific Vietnam
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topic EL NINO
LA NINA
CLIMATE IMPACT
EXTREME WEATHER
DROUGHT
FLOOD
RAINFALL
AGRICULTURE
DISASTER RISK MANAGEMENT
DISASTER PREPAREDNESS
NATURAL DISASTERS
spellingShingle EL NINO
LA NINA
CLIMATE IMPACT
EXTREME WEATHER
DROUGHT
FLOOD
RAINFALL
AGRICULTURE
DISASTER RISK MANAGEMENT
DISASTER PREPAREDNESS
NATURAL DISASTERS
Sutton, William R.
Srivastava, Jitendra P.
Rosegrant, Mark
Thurlow, James
Sebastian, Leocardio
Striking a Balance : Managing El Niño and La Niña in Vietnam’s Agriculture
geographic_facet East Asia and Pacific
Vietnam
description This report’s purpose is to help Vietnam policy makers and stakeholders prepare for future El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) events. It does this by providing information on ENSO’s agricultural, economic, and poverty impacts in Vietnam and outlining ways forward. The report finds that ENSO’s impacts vary from region to region and harm Vietnam’s people, economy, and agricultural sector. The country prepared for, and responded to, the 2014–2016 El Niño, but there is still room to improve upon these actions. Being proactive to prepare for ENSO is important because of Vietnam’shigh exposure to climate shocks, the prominence of the agricultural sector in the national economy, the rural population’s climate vulnerability, and the lack of researchon ENSO in Vietnam.
format Report
author Sutton, William R.
Srivastava, Jitendra P.
Rosegrant, Mark
Thurlow, James
Sebastian, Leocardio
author_facet Sutton, William R.
Srivastava, Jitendra P.
Rosegrant, Mark
Thurlow, James
Sebastian, Leocardio
author_sort Sutton, William R.
title Striking a Balance : Managing El Niño and La Niña in Vietnam’s Agriculture
title_short Striking a Balance : Managing El Niño and La Niña in Vietnam’s Agriculture
title_full Striking a Balance : Managing El Niño and La Niña in Vietnam’s Agriculture
title_fullStr Striking a Balance : Managing El Niño and La Niña in Vietnam’s Agriculture
title_full_unstemmed Striking a Balance : Managing El Niño and La Niña in Vietnam’s Agriculture
title_sort striking a balance : managing el niño and la niña in vietnam’s agriculture
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate 2019
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/769121554207974851/Striking-a-Balance-Managing-El-Niño-and-La-Niña-in-Vietnam-s-Agriculture
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