Ho Ngoc Son

Thai Nguyen University of Agriculture and Forestry | TUAF · Agriculture and Forestry Research & Development Centre for Mountainous Region (ADC)

This study focuses on the accumulated indigenous knowledge of the Yao ethnic minority in Bac Kan Province of Vietnam. Through centuries of observation and experimentation, the Yao people have developed complex farming systems, cultural practices, and a knowledge base well-suited to their environments. Data for this study was collected through surve...

Vietnam is highly vulnerable to climate change, and those most severely affected tend to be members of ethnic minority groups living in poverty in marginalized areas. This paper focuses on the Tay, Dao, and Hmong ethnic minorities the Northern Mountainous Region (NMR) of the country, and employs a mixed-method qualitative approach to assess their a...

Over centuries, ethnic minority communities in the north of Vietnam have developed complex farming systems well-adapted to their environments. Much of this is based on indigenous knowledge concerned with adapting to locally-available resources and more recently enhancing resiliency to climatic risk. This article draws from data gathered with mixed...

With time it is getting more difficult to solve environmental issues as several people are unaware of the current environmental concerns. Using the ecological footprint analysis, people can know their daily use of natural resources. Therefore, this study aims to determine the ecological footprint of people in Solo, Indonesia. We applied the Ecologi...

Vietnam is highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, and impoverished ethnic minority groups in marginalized areas are more adversely affected. This paper focuses on the Northern Mountainous Region (NMR) of Vietnam, which is the poorest region in the country. It employs a participatory case study approach in assessing the vulnerability of...

To promote a social-ecological transformation, the four destructive industries that most threaten our livelihoods must be transformed: These are energy, transport, industrial agriculture (including agribusiness), and security/the military-industrial complex. In exacerbating the current multi-faceted crisis, their interdependencies and relations wit...

Exploring the roles of local communities and local knowledge in integrated solutions for adaptation and resilience: Case studies of APN activities in Viet Nam and the Pacific

Land management is vital for agricultural production and ecosystem service maintenance to mitigate the effects of climate change. This is particularly important in regions with higher proportions of sloping land, where degradation is more prevalent. The mountainous northwest of Vietnam provides a salient example of an area with sloping and highly d...

Mối liên quan giữa sinh trưởng và chất lượng gỗ luôn được người trồng rừng cũng như các nhà chế biến gỗ quan tâm, đặc biệt ở các loài sinh trưởng nhanh. Nghiên cứu này được thực hiện nhằm mục tiêu kiểm tra tương quan giữa các chỉ số sinh trưởng và một số tính chất gỗ chủ yếu ở Keo tai tượng, bao gồm: khối lượng thể tích (AD), độ bền uốn tĩnh (MOR),...

Medicinal plants are important non-timber forest products which receives high priority in investment and development in many northern mountainous provinces, especially Lao Cai province. Planting medicinal herbs has contributed significantly to the income of local ethnic minorities. The demand for input services such as seeds, agricultural materials...

One of the poorest areas of Vietnam, the Northern Mountainous Region (NMR) is largely populated by ethnic minorities. Women in these communities produce heritage breeds of pork on a smaller scale, providing them with opportunities and agency. This production also brings alternative sources of revenue outside of the cultivation of rice and corn, mai...

As COVID-19 has become more widespread in Vietnam, the government has taken preventative measures including mandating social distancing and closing brick-and-mortar businesses considered unessential. To maintain operations, many restaurants have converted their business models to providing delivery sales via online platforms. This article focuses o...

Through generations of observation and experimentation, the Tay people of Bac Kan Province in the Northern Mountainous Region of Vietnam have developed complex farming systems, cultural practices and an indigenous knowledge base well-suited to their environments. Drawing on data collected through surveys, interviews and focus group discussions, thi...

This book provides methods, steps to identify and use indigenous knowledge in agroecological practices for climate change adaptation as well as several typical agroecological models/practices in the Northern mountain region, and serves as a reference material for non-governmental organizations, civil society organizations, lecturers and students in...

The Northern Mountainous Region (NMR) of Vietnam is one of the poorest regions of the country, and is largely populated by socially-and economically-marginalized ethnic minorities. Women in these communities tend to produce most of the heritage breeds of pork on smaller-scale. The pigs are often raised free-range and are able to root in forests and...

Sa mộc dầu (Cunninghamia konishii Hayata) là nguồn gen quí hiếm được xếp vào nhóm đang có nguy cơ bị tuyệt chủng. Sử dụng phương pháp nhân giống in vitro để bảo tồn và phát triển loài là cần thiết. Trong nghiên cứu này, đoạn thân non và đỉnh sinh trưởng cây Sa mộc dầu được nghiên cứu khử trùng để tạo vật liệu ban đầu cho nuôi cấy in vitro. Thí nghi...

A study of the land cover change and the CO2 stock in the Palembang City, Indonesia was conducted by using remote sensing and GIS data and processed by the LUMENS software. The study has successfully compared the land transformation during period of 1989–2000 and 2000–2013. It reveals that the settlement area increased much faster during 2000–2013...

Households and communities in the Northern Mountainous Region (NMR) of Vietnam are living from day-today , with a host of stressors, including climate-related risks. They have also responded to these risks, using various coping and adaptation strategies. This paper sets out to explore how households and communities have attempted to manage such cha...

Indigenous knowledge plays an important role in maintaining and developing livelihood strategies suitable for the specific economic, political, and social conditions of each local area, especially in relation to the current impacts caused by climate change. These guidelines are a step by step description of the way to integrate indigenous knowledg...

Vietnam is one of the most vulnerable countries to climate change in the world. Therefore, adaptation is increasingly seen as both a necessary and urgent response. However, little is known in terms of who are the most vulnerable and how adaptation will take place. This thesis examines vulnerability and resilience to climate variability and change a...

Developing appropriate climate change adaptations to protect biodiversity requires taking into account the dynamics of agro-ecological and socioeconomic change. A framework for approaching this problem was proposed, but not applied in detail, as part of a major biodiversity and climate change report prepared in Australia. This paper describes the f...