Abstract
Restructuring agriculture has great impact to livelihoods of rural households, alleviating the climate change impacts. By using 28 indicators of sustainable livelihood framework (SLF), this study is aimed to identify the livelihood vulnerability index (LVI) of the households in the coastal of Thanh Phu district, Ben Tre province under the process of restructuring agriculture. Based on the baseline data in 2015-2016, a survey of 175 households living in this region was conducted to have a thorough assessment of LVI. The results showed that excluding the increase in financial capital index (0.315 vs 0.651) and physical capital index (0.215 vs 0.350), the remain value of LVI reduced in the dimension of human capital (0.415 vs 0.307), natural capital (0.439 vs 0.365), and social capital (0.458 vs 0.416). In overall, the value of the LVI index scored 0.382 in 2015-2016 is higher than that in 2018-2019 (0.370), it means that the livelihoods vulnerability redued after four years of agricultural restructuring intervention. The research findings contribute a deeper understanding of the vulnerable context of household communities that support the assessment of policy intervention, a social development project as well as an impact assessment of the given factors such as change of vulnerable contexts.
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