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The magnitude and types of climate change impacts on the livelihoods of poor households in the 
north central coastal region of Vietnam. 
According to our study, climate changes and natural disasters have different impacts depending on 
the field and type of impact, in which agriculture and livestock are most affected. As for aquaculture, 
the fishing activities are least affected. Floods, storms, heavy rains and droughts all have the same 
impact, while 3 phenomena of sea level rise, saline intrusion and flash flood have low impact levels. 
Among the natural disasters, drought has the highest overall impact on three livelihoods: agriculture, 
husbandry and aquaculture, while the combined impacts of flooding on the three above-mentioned 
production activities are only moderate. Droughts and heavy rains all have a moderate impacts on the 
fishery capturing. The rest are rated low. 
Regarding the assessment on production losses due to extreme weather events in this study, the 
majority of respondents said that they suffered much damages (22.3%) and a lot of damages (30.3%) 
due to climate changes in the cultivation of food crops. For husbandry, 38.8% of households were 
severely damaged, 4.9% of households were completely damaged. 
The data from other studies (Le Ha Phuong, 2015) also confirm that extreme weather events affect 
agricultural production with different levels of influence in which cultivation and animal husbandry 
are most affected. 
Climate changes have a strong impact on the livestock and crop sector, most obviously reducing 
the area of arable land, causing drought, putting great pressure on the development of the crop industry 
in general and agriculture in particular. Accordingly, the number of households with damaged 
cultivated land is 66.6%, of which the number of damaged households planting food crops is 75.2%. 
Currently, the intensification of drought due to extreme weather changes in the north central coastal 
region has caused agricultural production from cultivation to be reduced by up to 15%. Main crop 
productivity can be reduced by up to 30%, in many places it can completely lose crops. 

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As mentioned above, the effects of extreme weather events are likely to fall largely into the 
agricultural production group, including food crops, secondary crops/short-term crops and husbandry. 
Accordingly, the phenomena of droughts, storms, and floods are the biggest causes affecting the 
farming and husbandry activities of the poor. These groups of weather phenomena account for more 
than two-thirds of the responses of households planting food crops, 50% of households planting 
secondary crops/short-term crops and 33% of livestock households saying that the impact is strongest. 
Thus, it can be said that among poor households, falling into the affected group or houses or 
means of production or both reduces their per capita income. In particular, the impacts on households 
affected by housing are quite large, both in the absolute and relative sense. In general, when 
households suffer from damages to houses or means of production, they lose economic opportunities, 
or simply lose additional funding to restore stormy houses and lands devastated floods and droughts, 
leading to the lack of resources for investing in livelihood activities and reducing incomes. From the 
income perspective, it is noticed that there is a big gap between the extent of damages caused by 
climate change and the adaptability of the poor and poor households. Therefore, the study of farming 
models, employment or crop restructuring is essential for the poor to minimize the negative impacts of 
climate change on their livelihood outcomes and aim to better adapt to climate change.