"China, Laos and Vietnam are three of a handful of late socialist countries where capitalist economics rubs up against … the future alongside much uncertainty and anxiety, especially for their large rural populations. Contributors to this … edited volume demonstrate the diverse ways in which rural people build futures in this unique policy landscape and how their …

This chapter considers the linkages between agricultural development and rural non-farm activities. The chapter is … motivated by growing evidence that non-farm activities provide an increasingly important share of rural incomes in many low … reducing poverty in rural areas, and increased evidence of factor and commodity flows between rural and urban areas …

) among maize farmers in the mountainous areas of Northern Vietnam. While technology adoption is non-randomly assigned to …

Poverty remains a substantial threat in rural areas of many developing countries, and solving this problem requires an … agricultural commercialization on the capability of rural households to accumulate assets and on structural and multidimensional … poverty. A longitudinal dataset of around 2000 households with a total of 9781 observations from five rural surveys undertaken …

Irrigation and land use are crucial issues in rural sustainable development. The current study modifies the sustainable …