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22/8/2018
Report "Protecting rice land in Vietnam: What's optimal?"
Report "Protecting rice land in Vietnam: What's optimal?"
REPORT "PROTECTING RICE LAND IN VIETNAM: WHAT'S OPTIMAL?"
Agricultural land preservation (ALP) is applied in many countries in their transition to more modern and industrialised economies. Rapid urbanisation, which is inevitable and often necessary for economic development, generally affects the supply of prime agricultural land (Nelson, 1990; Firman, 2000; Lichtenberg and Ding, 2008; Kong, 2014). In combination with urbanisation, rapid population growth, slow improvements in agricultural productivity and reductions in land suitable for agricultural cultivation due to the effects of climate change, all lead to serious concerns over food security (Godfray et al., 2010; Fazal, 2001).