Agriculture and fishing
Agro-Water Contest in Mekong Delta
Call for (Smart) Proposals – deadline 31 October 2020. Over the decades, Vietnam and the Netherlands have built up a dynamic strategic relationship, particularly in the areas of water management and sustainable agriculture. After delivering the Mekong Delta Plan in 2013, the Netherlands is currently working ...
Lao faculty, partners hatch online poultry seminar for next month
The Faculty of Agriculture at the National University of Laos in collaboration with KOICA Laos Office, Good Farmer, and Milk for Lao will organise an online seminar aiming to enhance local livestock-poultry production and marketing. The online seminar will be held on September 9 and cover ...
The Small Grant for Training Course/ Field Trip on Mekong Youth and Agro-Ecology
Mekong Youth Farm Network (Y-Farm) has been developed by enthusiastic youth from countries in the Mekong Region. Y-Farm focuses on five main fields/issues that relate to youth development and sustainable agriculture in the region including (i) training courses and farm improvement; (ii) youth exchange on farming ...
2019 Science Week: Resetting research priorities for healthy and sustainable food systems
The current food system is responsible for producing one-fifth of total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, losing approximately one-third of edible food in production, inabilities access to healthy and fresh food sources and are causing one-third of the world’s land degradation. Furthermore, an estimate of two billion ...
Call for applications: Young Water Fellowship Programme
The call for applications for the 2019 edition of the Young Water Fellowship Programme (YWF) is now open. This programme offers young entrepreneurs from low and middle income countries a support package that includes training, mentorship and seed funding opportunities to turn their water/sanitation initiative in ...
Mekong Institute opens applications to 2019 safe food courses
Mekong Institute (MI) will be organizing a series of safe food courses this year as part of the New Zealand Aid Programme-funded Food Safety Project. These regional training programs comprise a major component of the five-year food safety project to be implemented in Cambodia, Lao PDR, ...
Mekong Water Governance Summer School
Summer School: Mekong Water Governance will be held on 21-25 January 2019 This intensive one-week Summer School aims to build multi-scholar and critical thinking skills for water governance in civil society, state and young academic practitioners. The key areas of focus are dimensions of transboundary impact ...
Request for Research Proposals for Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Research Awards (Type 1)
The Water for Women Fund Coordinator, GHD, has announced a request for proposals from eligible Research Organisations (ROs) to implement WASH Research Awards (Research Type 1) through the Water for Women Fund. The WASH Research Awards is a $10.6 million Research Component associated with the ...
Applications to Postharvest Training in Fresh Produce
Mekong Institute is now accepting applications to a regional training on Postharvest Management System in Fresh Horticultural Produce. Full scholarships will be provided to 21 participants from Cambodia, P.R. China, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam. Deadline application: October 26, 2018 More details ...
Apply for Young Water Professional Programme
The National Water Resources Committee is seeking candidates for its Young Water Professional Programme (YWP). The YWP is a eleven month long program, in which young graduates of Myanmar who have ambition to become water professionals and government staff from various water related Ministries receive well defined ...
