Challenges to Rural Poverty Reduction in Viet Nam - Oxfam Blogs
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Participa<strong>to</strong>ry poverty moni<strong>to</strong>r<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong> rural communities <strong>in</strong> <strong>Viet</strong> <strong>Nam</strong><br />
36 TABLE 1.6. Feel<strong>in</strong>g of local residents fac<strong>in</strong>g risks that greatly affect their lives,<br />
2007-2011 (%)<br />
Commune<br />
Percent<br />
of HHs<br />
fac<strong>in</strong>g<br />
risks<br />
2007 2011 Natural<br />
disasters,<br />
drought,<br />
flood<br />
Key risks greatly affect<strong>in</strong>g household lives <strong>in</strong> 2011<br />
Epidemics, Unfavourable<br />
pests, disease prices<br />
Under<br />
employment,<br />
unstable jobs<br />
Ineffective<br />
use of<br />
loans<br />
Ineffective<br />
application of<br />
new varieties<br />
techniques<br />
Illness,<br />
accident<br />
Thuan Hoa 48 33 10 95 10 5 0 0 15 0<br />
Ban Lien 56 67 19 92 30 0 5 0 8 11<br />
Thanh Xuong 20 24 31 46 8 0 0 0 77 8<br />
Luong M<strong>in</strong>h 66 72 93 79 43 12 43 5 26 0<br />
Duc Huong 63 35 73 55 46 14 5 0 55 0<br />
Xy 26 61 75 86 39 8 3 3 28 3<br />
Others<br />
Cu Hue 58 35 5 62 43 5 5 10 33 0<br />
Phuoc Dai 43 69 60 62 45 7 5 2 21 2<br />
Phuoc Thanh 63 59 76 55 36 6 3 0 6 0<br />
Thuan Hoa 40 42 21 46 13 42 13 13 29 8<br />
Average 48 49 52 70 34 10 10 3 26 3<br />
SOURCE: Household <strong>in</strong>terviews<br />
Natural disasters<br />
Households at the moni<strong>to</strong>r<strong>in</strong>g po<strong>in</strong>ts experienced adverse and unforeseen weather<br />
conditions such as s<strong>to</strong>rms, floods, drought, last<strong>in</strong>g ra<strong>in</strong> and severe cold. This appears <strong>to</strong><br />
suggest the <strong>in</strong>creas<strong>in</strong>g impact of climate change.<br />
Severe s<strong>to</strong>rms and floods. Dur<strong>in</strong>g the his<strong>to</strong>ric double flood <strong>in</strong> late 2010, Duc Huong<br />
commune-Ha T<strong>in</strong>h was submerged. Infrastructure was destroyed, houses and buffalo<br />
stables were demolished or seriously damaged, property and lives<strong>to</strong>ck was washed<br />
away and agricultural produce and materials were water damaged. Follow<strong>in</strong>g the flood,<br />
lives<strong>to</strong>ck feed was scarce and straw <strong>to</strong> feed buffalos and cows cost as much as paddy.<br />
Some households were forced <strong>to</strong> sell property and lives<strong>to</strong>ck <strong>to</strong> buy straw for their cattle.<br />
Unusual and prolonged hot spells and drought. In 2010, seven communes were<br />
hit by severe and long hot spells, compared <strong>to</strong> only two communes <strong>in</strong> 2009. In some<br />
communes such as Luong M<strong>in</strong>h-Nghe An, Xy-Quang Tri, and Phuoc Thanh-N<strong>in</strong>h Thuan<br />
hot spells were one or two months longer than <strong>in</strong> 2009 and temperatures 3-4 0 C higher.<br />
Harvests suffered, <strong>in</strong>come from agricultural production fell and water was scarce.<br />
Prolonged ra<strong>in</strong>fall. In 2010, five communes (compared <strong>to</strong> six 2009) experienced<br />
unusually prolonged ra<strong>in</strong> and hurricane force w<strong>in</strong>ds, sometimes last<strong>in</strong>g for seven days.<br />
In remote communes such as Luong M<strong>in</strong>h-Nghe An, Xy-Quang Tri and Phuoc Dai-N<strong>in</strong>h<br />
Thuan, heavy ra<strong>in</strong> destroyed crops, and affected other sources of <strong>in</strong>come such as wild<br />
vegetables and bamboo shoots, hunt<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong> forests, fish<strong>in</strong>g, collect<strong>in</strong>g dried cow dung or