What is the actual impact of an intensified development focus on rural women?
Tag: Environment
Floating rice: The climate-resilient alternative for Cambodia’s food production
Grown in floods and thriving without pesticides, floating rice offers sustainable alternative for its eco-friendly food production.
Payments to protect forest carbon must increase to defend against rubber plantations
Efforts to protect tropical forests in Southeast Asia for the carbon they store may fail because protection payments are too low
Ecotourism payments for wildlife sightings benefit conservation in Laos
Higher payments for more wildlife sightings and improved protections for wildlife work.
Mekong nations agree to share information
Guidelines to be formulated this week on how to share information and technology to jointly manage the transnational river.
Once thriving floating market gasping for air in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta
Plans are in place to revive Nga Bay Market, but critics say it’s too late to save the floundering vendors from drowning in a river of bureaucracy.
Government halts transport of timber from Lower Sesan II dam
Timber and forest products from Lower Sesan II dam in Stung Treng province’s Sesan district until after the elections in July.
Cambodia, Laos losing the last of their trees
Despite official pledges to halt the trade, smugglers in Cambodia and Laos are finding ways to illegally ship timber to Vietnam. The precious hardwood is often used in furniture factories that ship their products largely to China.
Hundreds protest against polluting steel factories in central Vietnam
Hundreds of people have been protesting outside two factories in Da Nang since Monday night demanding authorities fulfill their promise to relocate people from the polluted area.
Sediment loss in Mekong River killing southern delta
A recent study finds that the Mekong River’s sediments arriving down the Cuu Long Delta fell from 65 to 75 percent compared to the total in the 1990s, and by half over the last few years.