<p>With a large population and limited availability of land, Vietnam’s endowment of 0.3 hectare of agricultural land per person is among the lowest in the world.Vietnam is historically a nation of small-scale rice farmers: the average farm size is 1,560 square meters, less than one-third that of Thailand or Cambodia. Rapid economic growth in the past two decades has converted up to one million hectares of household farmland...</p>
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16 December 2022
Despite the work, a new report says China has reclaimed 6 times more land in 10 years.
Main photo: Pearson Reef, a rock located in the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea, has been one of the locations Vietnam has been expanding. The red square indicates Vietnam’s outpost there. Credit: CSIS…
23 June 2022
Known as the rice basket of the country, the delta now sees houses tumbling into rivers and livelihoods lost
When a riverbank subsided and gave way, Tran Van Bi’s house collapsed into a river in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta four years ago. Everything his family had accumulated over 32 years was gone in…
01 June 2022
Main photo: A screenshot of a video of villagers in Lang village, Ea Pok town, Cu Mgar district in south-central Vietnam's Dak Lak province who have been proesting since mid-May to reclaim about 40 hectares of arable land from a forestry company. (Protesters' Facebook page).
Hundreds of ethnic…
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12 July 2024
El seminario web "Caminos hacia los derechos consuetudinarios sobre la tierra y los bosques en el Mekong" tuvo lugar el 2 de julio de 2024. Se trataba del segundo seminario web de la serie "Estado de la tierra en la región del Mekong", cuyo objetivo es poner de relieve la evolución del entorno de…
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Thursday, 15 February 2024
9:00-11:00 CET | 15:00-17:00 Bangkok
Join us in a webinar that will shine light on two groundbreaking reports concerning gender and land governance in the Mekong region. The reports, "Outlook on Gender and Land in the Mekong Region" and "Towards Gender-…