Effects of Natural Disaster on Rice Production at Farm Level: New Evidence from Vietnam

Hong - Ron NguyenQuang - Thanh NgoNgoc - Danh Nguyen

DOI 10.7160/aol.2018.100104
No 1/2018, March
pp. 37-49

Nguyen, H.-R., Ngo, Q.-T. and Nguyen, N.-D. (2018) “Effects of Natural Disaster on Rice Production at Farm Level: New Evidence from Vietnam", AGRIS on-line Papers in Economics and Informatics, Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 37-49. DOI 10.7160/aol.2018.100104.

Abstract

The current study uses a unique balanced panel of 3,922 households between 2008 and 2010 to examine the extent to which rice production in Vietnam is affected by natural disasters and how coping strategies lessen the negative effects of natural disaster, using a fixed effects model that controls for time invariant farm heterogeneity. With regard to natural disaster, we find evidence of the negative inter-temporal occurrence and negative inter-temporal severity effects, and the negative current occurrence one as well. With regard to coping strategies, we find various evidence of current, inter-temporal coping-occurrence and coping-severity effects, depending on kinds of coping strategies.

Keywords

Current and inter-temporal occurrence effects, current and inter-temporal severity effects, current and intertemporal coping-occurrence effects, current and inter-temporal coping-severity effects, natural disaster, rice production, Vietnam.

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