Lao development trends suggest decreased food security and resilience

Sun, 2011-04-17 06:49 — admin
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Food Security - Vietnam

Development in Lao PDR: The food Security Paradox, by David Fullbrook
Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)
FEB 2010

SUSTAINABLE SECURITY: Why the Mekong Delta is so important

Sun, 2011-04-17 05:01 — JRees

The Mekong Delta plays an important role in the sustainable security of Vietnam, particularly as it relates to food security and the national economy. Facts of importance:

- 20% of Vietnam population live in the Mekong Delta

- 48% of stape foods for Vietnam are grown in the Mekong Delta

- 75% of Aquaculture production for Vietnam comes from the Mekong Delta

- 38% of marine fishery production for Vietnam comes from the Mekong Delta

Laos Xayaburi Dam would threaten fertility of Lower Mekong Basin

Sun, 2011-04-17 01:22 — admin
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Dam Issues - Vietnam / Southeast Asia

Mekong Delta fertility at risk, experts warn, as they reiterate calls to cancel plans to build the Xayaburi Dam in Laos

Thanh Nien | 4/15/2011

With less than a week to go before the Mekong River Commission’s Joint Committee makes a decision on a major hydropower dam on the river, environmentalists highlighted its infeasibility and called for its cancellation.

Capacity Building on Climate Change for Vietnamese Civil Society Organizations

Fri, 2011-04-15 18:04 — admin
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Disaster Risk Reduction

The book “Training of Trainer on Climate Change” was just introduced in Hanoi on March 23, 2011. This is an activity of the project “Capacity Building on Climate Change for Vietnamese Civil Society Organizations” financed by the Finnish Embassy’s Fund for Local Cooperation and implemented by the Centre for Sustainable Rural Development.

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