Building brand name for Vietnam’s coffee
Director of the Rural Development Centre Dao Duc Huan has discussed with the Vietnam News Agency the building of brand name for Vietnamese coffee.
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Director of the Rural Development Centre Dao Duc Huan has discussed with the Vietnam News Agency the building of brand name for Vietnamese coffee.
The HCM City chapter of the Vietnam Youth Federation on July 15 held a ceremony to launch the 25th “Green Summer” voluntary campaign, attracting more than 60,000 students to social activities.
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the provincial People’s Committees of Ha Giang, Vinh Phuc and Thua Thien-Hue on July 6 signed project agreements totaling 223.87 million USD for the Secondary Green Cities Development Project.
The 18th ASEAN-India Joint Cooperation Committee Meeting, held in Jakarta, Indonesia on June 22, highlighted cooperation between the two sides in the past years, and reached consensus on measures to elevate the ASEAN-India relations in the coming time.
The European Union (EU) and European countries have been carrying out a number of climate change adaptation and sustainable development projects in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam.
Protecting the environment is now becoming a common motivation of enterprises’ long term strategy, Nguyen The Chinh, head of the Institute of Strategy and Policy on Natural Resources and Environment said at a forum on May 22.
Vietnam has given top priority to measures aimed at reducing Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and those that promote climate change resilience, with the aim of seeing an 8 percent GHG reduction by 2030.
Truong Son Xanh (Green Annamites) Project funded by the US Agency for International Development (USAID) with total investment of nearly 10 million USD was launched in the central coastal province of Thua Thien-Hue on April 12.
An IT engineer in central Vietnam is demonstrating the value of hydroculture as an effective way to build climate change resilience in the storm-prone region.
The Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) Board of Directors has approved 170 million USD in loans to help the Government of Vietnam upgrade urban infrastructure and address climate change, benefiting about 116,000 households in Hue, Vinh Yen, and Ha Giang.
Vi Thanh city in the Mekong Delta province of Hau Giang is in need of over 3.3 trillion VND (150 million USD) to build infrastructure to enhance its resistance against climate change.
A planned wood-pulp plant in Binh Son district of central Quang Ngai province would destroy 50ha of nipa palm forest, causing pollution, loss of biodiversity, and irrevocable damage to local lifestyles, biologists and residents warn.
The Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI), the UNDP and the Green Climate Fund (GCF) on June 26 announced a GCF-funded project to increase the resilience to climate change for coastal residents in Vietnam.
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a loan worth 600 million USD for Indonesia’s irrigation improvement programme to enhance food security and reduce poverty in rural areas.
The Mekong Delta province of Ca Mau targets to have 280,000 hectares of prawn farming with an output of 280,000 tonnes per year by 2020.
The UN International Children's Emergency Fund has provided 7.2 million USD for interventions in health, nutrition, and the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) programme in rural areas of Laos, according to Lao news agency KPL.
Protecting, maintaining and restoring ecosystems, especially water systems, is among the most urgent tasks for strengthening the country’s resilience to climate change.
Enhancing climate change resilience and mitigating the risks of natural disasters to improve rural livelihoods in the delta and coastal areas were the outcomes of a US-funded project.
