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Farmers in Viet Nam will suffer less through the ‘good’ introduction of crop insurance
Writer: By Nguyen Thanh Binh Imagine you are a farmer living in the Mekong River Delta of Viet Nam where flooding and strong wind are your neighbors. Imagine from times to times when you sleep in your low-level house and your neighbors seep into the house and force you to suddenly leave. Imagine your strong …
Better Rice Initiative Asia bids a farewell, and greets again to farmers in Southeast Asia
Writer: Juejan Tangtermthong, Regional Advisor on Monitoring and Evaluation A project improving farmers income through sustainable rice production and value chains, Better Rice Initiative Asia (BRIA), continues its legacy with a new partner and changes a name to ‘Market Oriented Smallholders Value Chain (MSVC)’. The kickoff event of this new name project MSVC was held …
Press Release: Thai Government Ministries Cooperate Towards GHG Emissions Reduction From Rice Farming
Writer: Agriculture and Food Cluster Team Bangkok, 17 July 2018: Thailand’s Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives, Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, and Ministry of Finance are entering into cooperation to support 100,000 rice farmers towards greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction. The NAMA Facility, a multi-donor climate finance facility, has granted its approval to finance …
Climate awareness is there. But, what is next for Thailand’s Agriculture Sector?
Writer: Patcharin Sae-heng, Project Assistant, Thai-German Climate Programme (TGCP) – Agriculture A recent cooperation workshop on awareness raising among relevant governmental departments’ officials summarised seven key points on the mitigation potentials of Thailand’s agriculture sector as following. Awareness on climate change actions of the agriculture sector is not in a low level. There are still …
Smooth and fresh for both fruits and vegetables and cooperation among the target countries
Writer: Agriculture and Food Cluster Team Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam plan activities to better facilitate trade of safe fresh fruits and vegetables. As a result of a recent discussion to develop smoother and faster trade of fresh fruits and vegetables in South East Asia, Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam agree to conduct trainings to strengthen capacity …
Plans needed to prepare Thai farmers for climate uncertainty
Writer: Patcharin Sae-heng, Project Assistant, Thai-German Climate Programme (TGCP) – Agriculture Extreme droughts, floods and tropical storms influenced by erratic patterns of climate change will hit a life of farmers and their family, unavoidably. In Thailand, agriculture employs 49 per cent of the population and contributes 10 per cent of Gross domestic product (GDP). Imagining …
A Student’s Perspective on Sustainable Rice
Writer: Hannah Bickel, Paul Schilling and Okihiro Yamada We are three students from NIST International School and for our Work Experience week at the GIZ were given the incredible opportunity to investigate, plan and produce a short documentary on the benefits of sustainable rice in Thailand. After the initial phase of planning and scripting the …
Swiss method to assess sustainability of Thai farms
Writer: Agriculture and Food Cluster Team A specialist from Bern University of Applied Sciences (HAFL), Switzerland proposed a method to assess sustainability of Thai farms at a recent meeting with Department of Agricultural Extension (DoAE) in Thailand. Dr Jan Grenz, lecturer in agro-ecology, recently introduced a sustainability assessment method called ‘Response-Inducing Sustainability Evaluation’ (RISE) and …