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Dr. Tristan Berchoux
CIHEAM-IAMM, Montpellier, France

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Journal article
Published: 15 May 2021 in Sustainability
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The development of a coherent and coordinated policy for the management of large socio-agricultural systems, such as the Mekong delta in southern Vietnam, is reliant on aligning the development, delivery, and implementation of policy on national to local scales. Effective decision making is linked to a coherent, broadly-shared vision of the strategic management of socio-agricultural systems. However, when policies are ambiguous, and at worst contradictory, long-term management and planning can consequently suffer. These potential adverse impacts may be compounded if stakeholders have divergent visions of the current and future states of socio-agricultural systems. Herein we used a transferable, scenario-based methodology which uses a standard quadrant matrix in order to explore both anticipated and idealized future states. Our case study was the Mekong delta. The scenario matrix was based upon two key strategic choices (axis) for the delta, derived from analysis of policy documents, literature, stakeholder engagement, and land use models. These are: (i) who will run agriculture in the future, agri-business or the established commune system; and (ii) to what degree sustainability will be incorporated into production. During a workshop meeting, stakeholders identified that agri-business will dominate future agricultural production in the delta but showed a clear concern that sustainability might consequently be undermined despite policy claims of the contrary. As such, our study highlights an important gap between national expectations and regional perspectives. Our results suggest that the new development plans for the Mekong delta (which comprise a new Master Plan and a new 5-year socio-economic development plan), which emphasize agro-business development, should adopt approaches that address concerns of sustainability as well as a more streamlined policy formulation and implementation that accounts for stakeholder concerns at both provincial and national levels.

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Craig Hutton; Oliver Hensengerth; Tristan Berchoux; Van Tri; Thi Tong; Nghia Hung; Hal Voepel; Stephen Darby; Duong Bui; Thi Bui; Nguyen Huy; Daniel Parsons. Stakeholder Expectations of Future Policy Implementation Compared to Formal Policy Trajectories: Scenarios for Agricultural Food Systems in the Mekong Delta. Sustainability 2021, 13, 5534 .

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Craig Hutton, Oliver Hensengerth, Tristan Berchoux, Van Tri, Thi Tong, Nghia Hung, Hal Voepel, Stephen Darby, Duong Bui, Thi Bui, Nguyen Huy, Daniel Parsons. Stakeholder Expectations of Future Policy Implementation Compared to Formal Policy Trajectories: Scenarios for Agricultural Food Systems in the Mekong Delta. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (10):5534.

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Craig Hutton; Oliver Hensengerth; Tristan Berchoux; Van Tri; Thi Tong; Nghia Hung; Hal Voepel; Stephen Darby; Duong Bui; Thi Bui; Nguyen Huy; Daniel Parsons. 2021. "Stakeholder Expectations of Future Policy Implementation Compared to Formal Policy Trajectories: Scenarios for Agricultural Food Systems in the Mekong Delta." Sustainability 13, no. 10: 5534.

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Published: 18 May 2019 in Landscape and Urban Planning
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Spatial factors, such as environmental conditions, distance to natural resources and access to services can influence the impacts of climate change on rural household livelihood activities. But neither the determinants of precarious livelihoods nor their spatial context has been well understood. This paper investigates the drivers of livelihood precariousness using a place-based approach. We identify five community types in rural regions of the Mahanadi Delta, India; exurban, agro-industrial, rainfed agriculture, irrigated agriculture and resource periphery by clustering three types of community capitals (natural, social and physical). Based on this typology, we characterise the associations between precarious livelihood activities (unemployment or engagement in agricultural labour) with agricultural shocks and household capitals. Results demonstrate that, the type of community influences the impact of agricultural shocks on livelihoods as four of the five community types had increased likelihoods of precarious livelihoods being pursued when agricultural shocks increased. Our research demonstrates that the bundle of locally available community capitals influences households' coping strategies and livelihood opportunities. For example, higher levels of physical capital were associated with a lower likelihood of precarious livelihoods in agro-industrial communities but had no significant impact in the other four. Results also indicate that agricultural shocks drive livelihood precariousness (odds ratios between 1.03 and 1.07) for all but the best-connected communities, while access to household capitals tends to reduce it. Our results suggest that poverty alleviation programmes should include community typologies in their approach to provide place-specific interventions that would strengthen context-specific household capitals, thus reducing livelihood precariousness.

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Tristan Berchoux; Gary R. Watmough; Craig W. Hutton; Peter M. Atkinson. Agricultural shocks and drivers of livelihood precariousness across Indian rural communities. Landscape and Urban Planning 2019, 189, 307 -319.

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Tristan Berchoux, Gary R. Watmough, Craig W. Hutton, Peter M. Atkinson. Agricultural shocks and drivers of livelihood precariousness across Indian rural communities. Landscape and Urban Planning. 2019; 189 ():307-319.

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Tristan Berchoux; Gary R. Watmough; Craig W. Hutton; Peter M. Atkinson. 2019. "Agricultural shocks and drivers of livelihood precariousness across Indian rural communities." Landscape and Urban Planning 189, no. : 307-319.

Research article
Published: 09 March 2019 in Ambio
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The online version of this article (doi:10.1007/s13280-019-01150-9) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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Tristan Berchoux; Gary R. Watmough; Fiifi Amoako Johnson; Craig W. Hutton; Peter M. Atkinson. Collective influence of household and community capitals on agricultural employment as a measure of rural poverty in the Mahanadi Delta, India. Ambio 2019, 49, 281 -298.

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Tristan Berchoux, Gary R. Watmough, Fiifi Amoako Johnson, Craig W. Hutton, Peter M. Atkinson. Collective influence of household and community capitals on agricultural employment as a measure of rural poverty in the Mahanadi Delta, India. Ambio. 2019; 49 (1):281-298.

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Tristan Berchoux; Gary R. Watmough; Fiifi Amoako Johnson; Craig W. Hutton; Peter M. Atkinson. 2019. "Collective influence of household and community capitals on agricultural employment as a measure of rural poverty in the Mahanadi Delta, India." Ambio 49, no. 1: 281-298.

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Published: 29 January 2019 in Applied Geography
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Despite the increasing interest of the Sustainable Livelihood Framework in the field of international development and in academia and the recent call for the use of mixed-methods approach, there has been little analysis that brings together qualitative and quantitative methods over a large geographical extent. Based on findings from participatory rural appraisals during which participants identified the key assets needed to achieve their livelihoods, this paper argues that common-pool resources (community capitals) should be differentiated from private goods (household capitals) as they operate under different dynamics of decision-making and management. We then create quantitative indicators that can be mapped across a large geographical extent by using data derived from national census and satellite sensors. Spatial patterns and differentials in access to livelihood capitals across the case study are examined and the associations that exist between household capitals, between community capitals, and between both are quantified. The results demonstrate that household physical capital is positively associated with household financial and social capitals but negatively associated with household natural capital, supporting the hypothesis that households trade their natural assets to cope with shocks. It is also shown that proximity to main axes of communication increases access to village amenities but decreases access to natural resources, while remoteness increases household human capital but decreases household physical and financial capitals. Such a cross-scale study adds to the understanding of the question of scale regarding rural livelihoods and community development, which could act as a bridge between the implementation of policy programmes (often targeted at the community level) and their expected outcomes (often targeted at the household level).

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Tristan Berchoux; Craig W. Hutton. Spatial associations between household and community livelihood capitals in rural territories: An example from the Mahanadi Delta, India. Applied Geography 2019, 103, 98 -111.

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Tristan Berchoux, Craig W. Hutton. Spatial associations between household and community livelihood capitals in rural territories: An example from the Mahanadi Delta, India. Applied Geography. 2019; 103 ():98-111.

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Tristan Berchoux; Craig W. Hutton. 2019. "Spatial associations between household and community livelihood capitals in rural territories: An example from the Mahanadi Delta, India." Applied Geography 103, no. : 98-111.

Research article
Published: 22 August 2018 in Sociological Research Online
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Significant life-course changes can be ‘windows of opportunity’ to disrupt practices. Using qualitative focus group data, this article examines whether the life-course change experienced by Chinese students migrating to the UK has an effect on environmentally impactful practices. It does so by examining how such practices are understood and performed by Chinese and UK students living in their own countries, and contrasting them with those of Chinese students in the UK. Using a social practice framework, these findings suggest that practices do change, and this change can be conceptualised using a framework of competences, materials, and meanings. The findings show meanings – the cultural and social norms ascribed to pro-environmental behaviour – to be particularly susceptible to the influence of ‘communities of practice’ where immigrants and natives mix, with pro-environmental behaviour change resulting from assimilation and mimesis rather than normative engagement.

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Roger Tyers; Tristan Berchoux; Kun Xiang; Xu Yi Yao. China-to-UK Student Migration and Pro-environmental Behaviour Change: A Social Practice Perspective. Sociological Research Online 2018, 24, 575 -597.

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Roger Tyers, Tristan Berchoux, Kun Xiang, Xu Yi Yao. China-to-UK Student Migration and Pro-environmental Behaviour Change: A Social Practice Perspective. Sociological Research Online. 2018; 24 (4):575-597.

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Roger Tyers; Tristan Berchoux; Kun Xiang; Xu Yi Yao. 2018. "China-to-UK Student Migration and Pro-environmental Behaviour Change: A Social Practice Perspective." Sociological Research Online 24, no. 4: 575-597.