Women’s involvement in coffee agroforestry valuechains: Financial training, village savings and loans associations, and decision power in Northwest Vietnam

Globally, in the coffee sector and smallholder agriculture in developing countries, there is a distinct gender gap in key factors that enable women’s active participation in and contribut...

Climate Adaptation Finance: Fact or Fiction?

In 2009, developed countries made a commitment to support climate activities in developing countries. They promised to mobilise climate finance and scale it up to $100 billion in 2020, ha...

Sustainability re-defined in the pandemic? Disruption, resilience and adjustment in the apparel and footwear industries of Vietnam

Vietnam has been widely hailed as one of the most successful countries in the world at containing the COVID-19 pandemic with the number of cases under 2,000 while keeping the economy grow...

Confidant Guidebook: Listen Wholeheartedly

We believe that much like plants, confidants need to be nurtured by knowledge and grow roots that connect them to each other. The healing process of survivors may also thrive from informe...

COVID-19 impact on Vietnamese apparel and footwear workers – Workers’ Perspective: KEY FINDINGS AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS FOR ENTERPRISES, TRADE UNIONS AND GOVERNMENT

In Vietnam, the apparel and footwear sector (AFS) is one of the key export-oriented industries, creating jobs for millions of workers and making significant contributions to the economic ...

Reform the Governance and Use of Recurrent Budget to Support Agriculture Production and Startup: Policy Recommendation Report

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Reform the Governance and Use of Recurrent Budget to Support Agriculture Production and Startup – Summary Report

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Scale, Design, and Follow Through: Lessons on moving from a development project to a business in Vietnam’s AloWeather Project

AloWeather started with the Agro-Climate Information Services project which helped ethnic minority farmers in Vietnam access weather forecasts and advisories. The project was a success bu...

Effects of environmental change and policy responses on natural resource access in Vietnam – Consequences and opportunities for northern ethnic communities

To explore how environmental change and policy interventions affect access to natural resources of ethnic minorities and their livelihoods in the mountainous region of north-eastern Vietn...