Items tagged:
Vietnam
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The impact of the COVID-19 lockdown on the diets of Hanoi’s urban poor
The urban poor in Vietnam depend heavily on informal food systems. How will COVID-19 lockdown measures impact their food security and what will be the knock-on effects for daily life?
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Star spice in Vietnam's forests
Business training for farmers in Vietnam is adding spice to their harvest – and encouraging them to form producer organisations to make more from their crop
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The flipside of China's shift away from coal
China is quickly reducing its coal use, leading to lower emissions and less air pollution. Maarten Akkerman explores how this shift could adversely impact Vietnam and other countries
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Locally controlled forestry enterprises could teach us all a thing or two
Four lessons for successful locally controlled forest enterprises from the Forest Connect workshop in Vietnam
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Strengthening knowledge on urban climate resilience
IIED’s partner ACCCRN is an eight-year, multi-country initiative working with cities across the world to increase resilience to climate change
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If you want to go far, go together
How can urban development that reduces risk and boosts low-income residents' standard of living be supported? And how can community-led processes reduce poverty and build resilience? IIED staff and partners from Vietnam grappled with such questions last week in a workshop in Quy Nhon.
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To build climate resilience cities must assess diverse drivers of vulnerability
Three new studies from Vietnam show how research can help governments devise solutions that help their citizens adapt to the effects of climate change.
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Climate change studies analyse risks and resilience in urban Vietnam
Three reports published today provide policymakers with concrete proposals to reduce the diverse threats that climate change poses to different communities in urban areas of Vietnam.
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REDD+: What is needed to make it work for the poor?
While REDD+ is aimed at reducing emissions from forests, its effectiveness will depend on how much the benefits trickle down to those living closest to the forest.
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Where honey means money and climate means change
Ngan lives in a village called Ri in the remote highlands of Vietnam's Thanh Hoa province. It's beautiful. Everywhere you look is green-green-green, from the forested limestone mountains that look like the humps of long dead dragons to the flat sheets of emerald rice fields that shimmer in the sun.
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Building one village’s resilience to climate change starts with a cave
It might talk about the people living in the cave thousands of years ago.
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Vietnam: Mangroves break waves and help the people of Dai Hop Commune break even
Well-fed women smile out from under their hats as they pull in their catch of fish, shrimp and crabs from the mangrove forest. The simple images are in an educational booklet on the benefits of mangroves, with tips on how to grow seedlings.
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Good forest governance is key to reducing climate change and poverty
World Forest Day last week focused international attention on the urgency of better managing forests for food, fuel, climate change and natural disaster responses at a time when the stakes have never been higher
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Harnessing carbon finance to arrest deforestation: saving the Javan rhinoceros
IIED supported local institutions to set up a properly functioning and equitable forest carbon facility to compensate local villagers for arresting degradation and deforestation in and around Cat Tien National Park. This protection of forests helps conserve large mammals, particularly the critically endangered Javan rhinoceros
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Markets for the poor: the gap between theory and practice
Within development circles, there’s a common, if recent, mantra that the key to reducing poverty in the global South lies in investing in agriculture. Increasingly that investment focuses on building bridges between small-scale farmers and private markets in approaches known as ‘markets for the poor’.
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The interface between forests, agriculture and climate change: understanding the implications for REDD
This work sought to increase understanding of the interaction between forestry, agriculture and climate change. It mapped the implications for strategies and approaches to Reductions in Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD)
