Publication: An Overview of Agricultural Pollution in Vietnam: The Livestock Sector
Date
2017
ISSN
Published
2017
Author(s)
Dinh, Tung Xuan
Abstract
In the past 10 years, Vietnam’s
population has grown by around 1.03 percent per year,
increasing from 83.1 million in 2005 to 93.4 million in
2015. Food demand has also increased rapidly as population
and incomes have increased, and food consumption patterns
have shifted.Intensification has been the sector’s response
to this surge in demand, especially in pig and poultry
production, and this pattern has given rise to environmental
problems.The objective of the review was to provide a broad
national overview on (a) pollution related to livestock
development—its magnitude, impacts, and drivers; (b)
measures that are currently in place to manage or mitigate
waste pollution in different farming systems and the
potential for addressing the problems when moving forward;
and (c) existing knowledge gaps and directions for future
research and interventions.The paper is organized into nine
sections. Section one provides the introduction; section two
provides an analytical framework; section three presents the
findings and discussions, which includes livestock
development and intensification of trends and production
systems, and waste management practices; section four
presents the physical impacts on environment; section five
presents the socioeconomic impacts; section six presents the
driving factors; section seven discusses interventions;
section eight talks about the current knowledge and data
gaps; and section nine includes conclusions and recommendations.
Citation
“Dinh, Tung Xuan. 2017. An Overview of Agricultural Pollution in Vietnam; An Overview of Agricultural Pollution in Vietnam : The Livestock Sector. © World Bank, Washington, DC. http://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/29244 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”