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Perceptions of the Institutional and Support Environment amongst Young Agricultural Entrepreneurs in Laos
Sustainability, Vol.15(5), pp.1-20
2023
Abstract
Efforts to achieve inclusive and sustainable agricultural-sector growth in developing economies will benefit from agricultural entrepreneurship (agripreneurship) by young farmers. However, challenges that hinder transition from subsistence to commercial agriculture remain. A better understanding of enablers and constraints that young farmers experience can facilitate the development of an enabling environment for sustainably transitioning from subsistence into commercial agriculture. We interviewed 74 young agricultural entrepreneurs (agripreneurs) in Laos, a country with a young and highly rural population, to explore their perceptions of institutions and support functions that enable or limit agripreneurship. Respondents reported that institutions and support functions have generally improved to make agripreneurship easier than before, with infrastructure, logistics, and new platforms for information sharing, banking, marketing, and delivery identified as specific improvements. However, agripreneurs identified weaknesses in the nature, scope, and quality of agricultural information and extension services that limit their performance; difficulties in accessing loans with favorable conditions, which discourages investment; opaque and costly payments and red tape processes that frustrate business establishment, operations, and regulatory compliance; and a lack of targeted policy actions towards enabling youth agripreneurship, which leaves youth feeling unsupported. Improvements in infrastructure, promotion of agri-careers, and more transparency of taxation, registration, and administration fees/systems are recommended.
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- Title
- Perceptions of the Institutional and Support Environment amongst Young Agricultural Entrepreneurs in Laos
- Authors
- Manithaythip Thephavanh (Corresponding Author) - The University of AdelaideJoshua Neil Monty Philp (Author) - The University of AdelaideIan Nuberg (Author) - The University of AdelaideMatthew Denton (Author) - The University of AdelaideSilva Larson (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Science, Technology and Engineering
- Publication details
- Sustainability, Vol.15(5), pp.1-20
- Publisher
- MDPI AG
- Date published
- 2023
- DOI
- 10.3390/su15054219
- ISSN
- 2071-1050
- Copyright note
- © 2023 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
- Grant note
- This research was funded by (1) the Australia Awards John Allwright Fellowship from the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR), grant number OASIS ID: ST000S6T8, (2) ACIAR research projects SMCN/2012/075 and (3) ASEM/2014/052, and (4) the Crawford Fund Student Award, grant number SA-889-2019. The APC was funded by ACIAR project SMCN/2012/075.
- Organisation Unit
- Sustainability Research Cluster
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99716196102621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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