Mekong Delta authorities ask Vietnamese officials to address the inter-Governmental Mekong River Commission and step up diplomatic efforts to deal with countries upstream that are threatening the river’s flow.
Category: Viet Nam
Rising Sea Levels And Disappearing Mangrove Forests Spell Trouble For Vietnam
Loss of mangrove forests, impacts of climate change and upstream hydropower dams blocking much of the sediment that once reached the Delta is a disaster in the making.
Consultation workshop on Mekong Delta agricultural transformation
In face of the climate change challenges, Vietnam wants to learn from the Netherlands’, including planning, governance, development strategy building, and especially building a key value chain for the region.
Sand mining in the Mekong Delta revisited
The manifold consequences of combined threats to the delta, which include bank erosion, recessing coastlines, increasing salinity intrusion, and a loss of mangrove forests, will likely only accelerate if current sand mining practices are maintained.
Vietnam’s agricultural sector at a crossroads
The first problems persistently faced by Vietnam’s agricultural sector is its institutional failures in regulating production, environment regulations, and agricultural input and output markets.
Did Vietnam Just Doom the Mekong?
In joining the Lao effort to build the Luang Prabang hydropower project, Hanoi reverses policy, putting Vietnam’s credibility and the Mekong’s fate on the line.
No money, no need: Experts question proposed rail line to China
Already a railroad route from Hai Phong to the China border, and the volume of goods that needs to be transported is not so great as to justify building a whole new line.
Women are hit harder by climate change. Here, they are starting to fight back
Planting mangrove trees on the shores of Vietnam is helping protect against global warming—and also sowing the seeds of female empowerment.