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The Lower Mekong Dams Factsheet Text
The governments of Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, and Vietnam are planning to build eleven large hydropower dams on the Lower Mekong River. If built, these dams would destroy the riv...
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Food Security
Policy brief on food security.
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The Food Insecurity Experience Scale: Measuring food insecurity through people’s experiences
The FIES is a metric of severity of food insecurity at the household or individual level that relies on people’s direct yes/no responses to eight brief questions regarding their...
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Rural Development and Poverty Eradication 2016-2020
Objective 1: Improved vulnerable groups’ and poor households’ access to and/or control of productive natural resources, financial and support services, and to social protection...
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Space Technology and Geographic Information Systems Applications in ADB Projects
To promote more effective applications in the field of sustainable development, sharing best practices is very important. This report provides an overview of the space technolog...
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FAOSTAT: Lao People's Democratic Republic
This data set profiles the various country indicators for the Lao People's Democratic Republic by the FAO. There are datasets available on: Demographics, Agricultural Inputs, Un...
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Swidden, Rubber and Carbon: Can REDD+ work for people and the environment in Montane Mainland Southeast Asia
Swidden (also called shifting cultivation) has long been the dominant farming system in Montane Mainland Southeast Asia (MMSEA). Today the ecological bounty of this region is th...
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The state of world fisheries and aquaculture 2016
A report by L. Ababouch on The state of world fisheries and aquaculture 2016 Contributing to food security and nutrition for all, published in Rome, Italy by FAO Fisheries and A...
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Towards the implementation of the SSF Guidelines in the Southeast Asia region
Proceedings of the Southeast Asia Regional Consultation Workshop on the Implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries in the Context ...
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Water security threats demand new collaborations: Lessons from the Mekong River Basin
This report is an Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) report, commissioned by DuPont as part of the Global Food Security Index (GFSI) research programme. This report discusses the...
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Promotion of Climate Resilience for Food Security in ASEAN
This study made full use of existing information and data from official sources in Vietnam, such as government agencies that are responsible for or related to climate change pol...
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Inter-sectoral governance of inland fisheries
This e-book is a product of the Inland Fisheries cluster of the Too Big To Ignore (TBTI): Global Partnership for Small-Scale Fisheries Research in collaboration with WorldFish. ...
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Bridging the gap between conservation and community development in post-conflict Cambodia
A case study on Fauna & Flora International’s (FFI) work in Veal Veng District at the western end of the Cardamom Mountain range. The first priority to address hunger (a driver ...
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Aquaculture in transition: value chain transformation, fish and food security in Myanmar
A research reports authored by Ben Belton, Aung Hein, Kyan Htoo , L. Seng Kham, Ulrike Nischan, Thomas Reardon , Duncan Boughton, on Aquaculture in transition: value chain trans...
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Groundwater in the Mekong region – transboundary aquifers
A presentation by Felix Seebacher on groundwater and trans-boundary aquifers in the Mekong region, published by the Mekong River Commission Secretariat's Information and Knowled...
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Fish biodiversity in the Lower Mekong Basin: Implications for food and nutrition security
Presentation about fish biodiversity in the Lower Mekong Basin and their implications for food security. The presenter discusses fishes of the Basin, volume and value of the fis...
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Fish, sediment and dams in the Mekong
A research paper on the impact of dams on hydrology and fisheries in the Mekong by Eric Baran, Eric Guerin and Joshua Nasielki, published in Cambodia in December 2015. Published...
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Livelihoods and food security on the Mekong River
An analysis paper by Future Directions International on livelihood considerations and food security in the Lower Mekong countries, published in May 2016.
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Water access, available land resources and impacts on food production: 3S hydropower development and Tonle Sap food security
A presentation on the effects of the 3-S hydropower development on water access, available land resources and impacts on food production. Presenters describe the 3-S river hydro...
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Investment in land and water : proceedings of the regional consultation, Bangkok, 2001.
Summary report, recommendations and text of the "Bangkok Declaration" the total land area of the Asia and the Pacific region is 3,001 million ha or 22.9 percent of the world’s l...