The UNDP has launched this year a climate change adaptation project in the dry zone titled, “Addressing Climate Change Risk on Water Resources and Food Security in the Dry Zone of Myanmar.” This is according to a press release from UNDP Myanmar last 17 February. The $7.9 million project ... [continue reading]
The spotlight on fishery, like farming, has always been traditionally trained on men. In the backstage are the women who, while they may not work on the front lines, are just as hardworking as the men and whose work on the sidelines is equally important as going out to the sea and casting the ... [continue reading]
The government of Lao PDR is gearing up for an integrated rural development project as the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) has pledged US$14 million in grant, the Vientiane Times reports.The rural development project is set for a five-year run until 2019, concentrating in the ... [continue reading]
Somewhere in the north of Thailand, the soil is dry and the greenery has turned brown. In Myanmar's Central Dry Zone, problems with irrigation and water supply make good harvest almost an impossibility. In Vietnam and Cambodia, communities living along the Mekong and the Tonle Sap Rivers face a ... [continue reading]
Extension for everyone.This one-liner vision of the Laos Extension for Agriculture Project (LEAP) may be short but it perfectly captures the meaning of agriculture as a social activity. It involves us – the consumers – as much as those directly working to produce the food we eat.Agriculture ... [continue reading]
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