On 15 November 2024, Quang Nguyen Minh successfully defended his PhD thesis which assessed the current position of small-scale farmers in the volatile context of Vietnam’s Mekong Delta.
His thesis argues that farmers are affected by what may be called 'a triple challenge' of climate change, the adverse impacts of climate adaptation policies and market-induced capitalist expansion in Vietnam’s agriculture.
He uses four concepts in his research - (i) multi-level and multi-actor governance and decentralisation in climate change, (ii) the politics of policy making, (iii) capacity and informality, and (iv) sustainable livelihood perspectives - to explore Vietnamese policy-making processes and institutions in climate change governance within which farmer livelihoods and numerous policy actors at different levels operate.
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