A scoping review of the incentives for promoting the adoption of agroecological practices and outcomes among rice farmers in Vietnam

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dc.creatorOgutu, Sylvester
dc.creatorMockshell, Jonathan
dc.creatorMinh, Thai Thi
dc.creatorRemans, Roseline
dc.date2025-04-25
dc.date2025-05-20T15:08:30Z
dc.date2025-05-20T15:08:30Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T18:33:27Z
dc.descriptionRecent research and development efforts to achieve sustainable rice production in Vietnam have incorporated agroecological principles and practices. These efforts have come as a result of increasing pressure on food systems to achieve global food security. Growing food demand, rising population, climate change, and natural resources degradation, make it necessary to transform the current production systems towards more sustainable models. Agroecology is being promoted as one of the pathways to transition toward sustainable food production, with broad adoption requiring incentives for farmers. Using the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for Scoping Reviews guidelines, we conducted a scoping review of 120 articles to understand the incentives applied for promoting agroecological practices, whether and how the incentives promote the adoption of agroecological practices, and their relationship with economic, environmental, and social outcomes among rice farmers in Vietnam. Such in-depth reviews of the role of incentives in the agroecological transition are scarce. Results show that in about 60% of the articles, incentives led to adoption, outcomes (e.g., yield and income gains), or both, suggesting the importance and common use of incentives among rice farmers in Vietnam. Four types of incentives used were market, non-market, regulatory, and cross-compliance. These incentives directly or indirectly influenced outcomes through the adoption of agroecological practices. Market incentives (33%) were relatively more important for directly influencing outcomes, while non-market incentives (50%) were more important for indirectly influencing outcomes. Market, non-market, and regulatory incentives were more associated with the adoption of new agronomic practices, such as farm diversification, improved varieties, and organic agriculture than with other practices, while cross-compliance incentives were more highly associated with adoption of agroforestry. Generally, the incentives used were more associated with economic outcomes (56%), than with environmental (31%), and social (13%) outcomes. Overall, the results show that incentives influence outcomes differently, and a combination of different incentives is required to achieve holistic outcomes.
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dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/174702
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/159332
dc.languageen
dc.publisherPublic Library of Science
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourceOgutu, S.; Mockshell, J.; Minh, T.; Remans, R. (2025) A scoping review of the incentives for promoting the adoption of agroecological practices and outcomes among rice farmers in Vietnam. PLoS One 20(4): e0321029. ISSN: 1932-6203
dc.subjectagricultural practices
dc.subjectrice
dc.subjectarroz
dc.subjectsustainable agriculture
dc.subjectagricultura sostenible
dc.subjectagroecology
dc.subjectagroecología
dc.subjectviet nam-vietnam
dc.subjectincentivo
dc.titleA scoping review of the incentives for promoting the adoption of agroecological practices and outcomes among rice farmers in Vietnam
dc.typeJournal Article

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