Vietnam recently introduced a policy to promote climate-smart agricultural tech￾nologies (CSATs) to enhance farmer resilience and adaptation to climate change.
This study sought to identify factors infuencing the adoption and the continuation
of CSATs adoption among smallholder farmers. The study surveyed 215 farmers in
My Loi Village, Ha Tinh Province in North-Central Vietnam, where CSATs have
been adopted and practiced since 2014. Logistic and ordinary least square regres￾sion models were applied to analyze the data. The results showed that attendance
to training on CSATs, presence of a fellow farmer as a source of information, rice
cultivation, farming experience and number of crops grown signifcantly infuenced
the adoption of CSATs. Farmer adoptions of CSATs, in contrast, were negatively
infuenced by more working men in the family and membership in a farming organi￾zation. The continuous adoption of CSATs was promoted by training, support from
agriculture extension ofcers, upward mobility of farmers, farm ownership and the
number of crops grown. Meanwhile, families with a larger number of male work￾ers were less likely to continuously adopt CSATs. Policy-related recommendations
were proposed to encourage farmers to adopt CSATs in the region. They included:
(i) raising public awareness on CSATs through provision of high-quality information
and training; (ii) enhancing technical assistance through the agricultural extension
staf to all farmers, especially women; (iii) considering local context and smallholder
farmer socioeconomic factors when developing climate-smart actions and programs.