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Stories from the Field: Women Working Towards a Non-Toxic Environment
How 25 women farmers are working to reduce pesticides use and shift to agroecology
Cambodia - China - Lao People's Democratic Republic - Myanmar - Thailand - Viet Nam
2016 - Pesticide Action Network Asia and the Pacific (PANAP)
Article
AFA, Agriterra support VNFU’s fact roll out in Vietnam
The Asian Farmers’ Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA), in cooperation with its partner Dutch agri-agency Agriterra, is supporting the roll out of FACT trainings by its member Viet Nam Farmer Union (VNFU) in 10 provinces through trainings of trainers and coaching missions for the trainers.
The Farmers’ Advocacy Consultation Tool...
Viet Nam
2016 - Asian Farmers Association (AFA)
Case study
System of Rice Intensification in Vietnam: Doing more with less
In Vietnam rice is grown on 85% of cultivated land. Annual paddy (unmilled) rice production grew from 19.2 million metric tons in 1990 to 42.4 million metric tons by 2011, and in 2012, Vietnam exported eight million metric tons of rice. These yield increases were achieved through improved seeds, but...
Viet Nam
2016 - OXFAM
Case study
Ecologically Integrated Farming System in the South of Vietnam: Rice-Duck-Shrimp Farming in Ben Tre Province
Rice and ducks have been ‘good friends’ of farmers in the Mekong Delta for a long time. Traditionally, farmers in the Mekong Delta planted rice paddies and raised ducks by releasing them into the paddy fields after the harvest to eat residues.
A Japanese farmer, Mr. Takao Furuno, took this traditional...
Viet Nam
2016 - Seed to Table
Video
Grass strips against soil erosion
Contour hedgerows slow the speed of water coming down the slope and allow the water to infiltrate. They also allow the washed away soil and nutrients to settle out above the hedgerows. You can plant many different grasses, depending on what you need and what is locally available.
Thailand - Viet Nam
2016 - Access Agriculture
Case study
Ecologically Integrated Farming System in the South of Vietnam: Rice-Duck-Shrimp Farming in Ben Tre Province
Rice and ducks have been ‘good friends’ of farmers in the Mekong Delta for a long time.
Traditionally, farmers in the Mekong Delta planted rice paddies and raised ducks by releasing them into the paddy fields after the harvest to eat residues. A Japanese farmer, Mr. Takao Furuno, took this traditional Asian farming...
Viet Nam
2016 - Seed to Table
Case study
System of Rice Intensification in Vietnam: Doing more with less
In Vietnam rice is grown on 85% of cultivated land. Annual paddy (unmilled) rice production grew from 19.2 million metric tons in 1990 to 42.4 million metric tons by 2011, and in 2012, Vietnam exported eight million metric tons of rice. These yield increases were achieved through improved seeds, but...
Viet Nam
2016 - Oxfam
Book
Potentially Important Food Plants of Vietnam
Formed in 2007, Food Plant Solutions Rotary Action Group (FPS) creates science-based educational materials, which:
identify highly nutritious local food plants,
explain how to grow them in a sustainable, agroecological way,
detail the nutritional value of the plants and
describe why human bodies require those nutrients.
The resources created by FPS allows people to better...
Viet Nam
2016
Policy brief/paper
A Shift In Global Perspective: Institutionalizing Farmer Field Schools
The Farmer Field School (FFS) approach has been very successful and witnessed a strong expansion in many areas beyond crop production. Notwithstanding this success, the adoption of FFS in national extension often remains problematic and FFS activities have often been implemented in the margin of national institutions with strong reliance...
China - Indonesia - Jordan - Peru - Viet Nam
2015 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Book
The economic lives of smallholder farmers
About two-thirds of the developing world’s 3 billion rural people live in about 475 million small farm households, working on land plots smaller than 2 hectares. Many are poor and food insecure and have limited access to markets and services. Their choices are constrained, but they farm their land and...
Albania - Bangladesh - Bolivia (Plurinational State of) - Ethiopia - Kenya - Nepal - Nicaragua - United Republic of Tanzania - Viet Nam
2015 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Book
Democratising forest business: a compendium of successful locally controlled forest business models
Forests are home to 1.3 billion people, they have to cater to the multiple needs for local goods (access to income, food, clean water, wood energy, construction materials, fertile soils, medicinal and cosmetic products, and recreation) and global goods (climate change mitigation, biodiversity conservation, hydrological and mineral cycles). Reconciling competing...
Bolivia (Plurinational State of) - Brazil - Burkina Faso - Cambodia - Ethiopia - Gambia - Guatemala - Indonesia - Lao People's Democratic Republic - Mexico - Nepal - Philippines - Thailand - Viet Nam
2015 - International Institute for Environment and Development
Book
Food Plants for Healthy Diets in Vietnam
Formed in 2007, Food Plant Solutions Rotary Action Group (FPS) creates science-based educational materials, which:
identify highly nutritious local food plants,
explain how to grow them in a sustainable, agroecological way,
detail the nutritional value of the plants and
describe why human bodies require those nutrients.
The resources created by FPS allows people to better...
Viet Nam
2015
Book
Food Plants for Healthy Diets in Vietnam - Vietnamese
Formed in 2007, Food Plant Solutions Rotary Action Group (FPS) creates science-based educational materials, which:
identify highly nutritious local food plants,
explain how to grow them in a sustainable, agroecological way,
detail the nutritional value of the plants and
describe why human bodies require those nutrients.
The resources created by FPS allows people to better...
Viet Nam
2015
Journal article
Changes in Social Capital
A Case Study of Collective Rice Farming Practices in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam
This paper describes how the social capital of rice farmers of the Mekong Delta of Vietnam, as manifested in the tradition of collective farming practice, has changed. Collective rice farming persisted for decades, irrespective of critical events that challenged its continuation, due to two key factors: the high need for...
Viet Nam
2014
Journal article
Non-timber forest products utilization in Vietnam: Who collects, who consumes, who sells?
In this study was analysed collection and utilization of non-timber forest products in rural areas of central Vietnam. This is an important issue for better understanding of household-forest interactions in rural areas near natural reserves, particularly in developing countries with rapid economic growth. This research aim was to (i) document...
Viet Nam
2014 - Czech University of Life Sciences Prague
Report
Lessons learned note
Gender mainstreaming in small-scale fisheries
This document provides lessons learned (good and bad) from three years of RFLP field activities on mainstreaming gender across the six collaborating RFLP countries, namely Cambodia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Timor-Leste and Vietnam
Cambodia - Philippines - Sri Lanka - Timor-Leste - Viet Nam
2013 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Conference proceedings
Enhancing the contribution of small-scale aquaculture to food security, poverty alleviation and socio-economic development
About 70–80 percent of all those actors involved in fish farming worldwide are considered small-scale. The small-scale aquaculture (SSA) sector, is recognized as making an important contribution to food security, poverty alleviation and socio- economic development. However, assessing its contribution in a systematic way has been an uphill task. An...
China - Nepal - Papua New Guinea - Philippines - Thailand - Viet Nam
2013 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Conference proceedings
The Bangladesh model and other experiences in family poultry development
Stimulated by work pioneered in Bangladesh, the paper outlines a conceptual framework for using poultry as a tool in poverty alleviation. There is now evidence from several coun- tries that small poultry enterprises with adequate institutional support targeting the poorest rural women and their families can help them take the...
Bangladesh - Benin - Burkina Faso - Kenya - Morocco - Mozambique - Uganda - Viet Nam
2013 - International Network for Family Poultry Development (INFPD)
Book
Potentially Important Food Plants of Vietnam - Vietnamese
Formed in 2007, Food Plant Solutions Rotary Action Group (FPS) creates science-based educational materials, which:
identify highly nutritious local food plants,
explain how to grow them in a sustainable, agroecological way,
detail the nutritional value of the plants and
describe why human bodies require those nutrients.
The resources created by FPS allows people to better...
Viet Nam
2013
Fact sheet
Agricultores pequeños y familiares
Folleto que describe quienes son agricultores pequeños y familiares, su importancia en relación a la sostenibilidad y los múltiples beneficios que ellos generan.
India - Viet Nam
2013 - Vías de la Sostenibilidad
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