O Centro Regional do Sudeste Asiático para Pós-Graduação e Pesquisa em Agricultura (SEARCA) está aceitando inscrições para seu programa de Subsídio de Viagem para reforçar os esforços e recursos do Centro na promoção do desenvolvimento agrícola e rural inclusivo e sustentável (ISARD) para a…
The Regional Center for Social Science and Sustainable Development and the Mekong Land Research Forum will run a week-long intensive summer school on land research in the Mekong Region. Applications are welcome from early-career academics, government staff and those working with civil society…
Technically this means results-based payments for forest-related carbon reductions can be rolled out, but there is no framework for such a system yet.
Some forestry experts remain skeptical of REDD+ and its approach to forest management.
HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam – In late 2018, Vietnam became …
The report “State of Land in the Mekong Region” was launched today in Vientiane, Lao PDR. The first publication of its kind in the Mekong Region, it brings together key data and information on the current status of, and changes in, land resources, their social distribution, and the conditions of…
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Viet Nam News HÀ NỘI — Promoting the rapid and sustainable development of ethnic minority groups and mountainous areas is the consistent policy of the Party, State and Government of Việt Nam in the cause of socio-economic development.
That was the message from Deputy Prime Minister Trương Hòa…
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In countries like Cambodia, Vietnam and Myanmar, tens of thousands face eviction with few tools to fight back
Residents of a village in Hanoi's outskirts took 38 officials and policemen hostage recently in protest against what they claimed was the illegal seizure of their land by a…
The Regional Center for Social Science and Sustainable Development and the Mekong Land Research Forum will run a week-long intensive summer school on land research in the Mekong Region. The purpose of the summer school is to equip early-career academic and advocacy-oriented researchers with key…
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Only 30% of the world’s population has a legally registered title to their land.
As discussed at the Land and Poverty Conference 2017, secure land rights are important for reducing poverty and boosting shared prosperity at the country, community, and family levels.
The World…
By: VNS
Date: January 20th 2016
Source: Vietnam News
HA NOI (VNS) — Eight million ethnic minority people across the country are expected to benefit from a project that launched in Ha Noi yesterday to promote their land rights.
According to research reported at the ceremony, ethnic minority…
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) launched a new platform (https://cambodia.opendevelopmentmekong.net) that significantly expands the range and functionality of the development-related data it makes
available to the public.
Now a member of the Open Development Mekong Network, ODC’s popular content…