Course Title: Professional Doctorate in Business Administration (Research) 

Thesis Title: Determinants of Efficiency of Farms in the North of Vietnam

Supervisors: Prof Phil Lewis and Dr Tesfaye Gebremedhin

The current strategy for Vietnamese agriculture focuses on resource use efficiency to achieve national food security and development. Thus the need to explore the determinants of efficiency is important.

Farms in the North of Vietnam is characterised by small and fragmented land holdings. This proposed study will explore factors that can influence efficiency differentials among farms by determining the relationship between efficiency (technical, allocative, economic) and farm size, land fragmentation, level of crop diversification, education of farm head and off-farm work in mixed farms in the North of Vietnam. The aim of the study is to help agrarian policy makers design programmes assisting farmers to use resources efficiently.

Short Bio:

Dao Thi Ngan Giang has been currently undertaking a Professional Doctorate in Business Administration at University of Canberra. Prior to this, Giang worked as a lecturer in National Economic University –Vietnam. In 1998 she graduated Bachelor of Agricultural Economic at National Economic University –Vietnam. She completed Master of Arts in Development Economics at University of East Anglia UK in 2003.