Follow-up data collection for the research “Climate Smart Agriculture in Vietnam: Climate Change Response Modelling and Application”
The Mekong Delta, known for its rich and diverse ecosystems, plays a vital role as Vietnam’s key hub for agriculture and aquaculture. However, it is also among the most climate-vulnerable regions in Southeast Asia. Climate change has exacerbated the vulnerability of smallholder farmers and increasingly threatens their agricultural livelihoods. In this context, climate-based forecasts—grounded in […]
Acacia plantation-Wood pellet manufacturing and distribution: A feasible, sustainable, and inclusive way out for coal miners in Vietnam?
Vietnam is committed to achieving net zero emissions by 2050 and has joined the Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP) to promote renewable energy (RE) while ensuring equity for vulnerable groups. The transition from coal is particularly impactful in Quang Ninh, where 100,000 existing coal miners will potentially face economic and social challenges. The province’s 2021-2030 […]
Community Engagement in Renewable Energy Infrastructure Projects in Vietnam
With the Government of Vietnam’s approval of the National Energy Master Plan (EMP) for 2021-2030 in 2023, Vietnam is committed to reaching net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. This presents an opportunity to strengthen the Vietnamese Government’s aim towards a “just transition” that focuses on the socio-economic ramifications of large-scale infrastructure development and how these projects […]
Energy Transition and Climate-smart Agriculture in Vietnam
In recent years in Vietnam, energy transition has been in the spotlight following the country’s commitment to achieve net zero emissions by 2050 at the 26th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP26) in November 2021. In that context, the Institute for Policy and Strategy for Agriculture and Rural […]
THRIVE 2030 Performance Baseline Evaluation in Vietnam
World Vision International is a global humanitarian organization dedicated to tackling poverty and injustice around the world. As part of its Livelihood Development Program, World Vision has formulated an eight-year economic empowerment business plan called “Transforming Household Resilience in Vulnerable Environments (THRIVE 2030)’’ to build resilient and sustainable livelihoods and enable parents and caregivers to […]
GEMMES Vietnam 2 (Component 3)
GEMMES Viet Nam phase 2 is a research program whose main objective is to propose the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources (MoNRE) of Viet Nam with scientific evidence for the national dialogue on net-zero strategies and adaptation to climate change. Running from 2023 to 2026, it is divided into three research Components: (1) Climate; […]
Research on Agriculture Insurance in Vietnam
The rise of extreme weather events in the Mekong Delta region poses an urgent threat to the livelihoods of millions, particularly those whose primary source of income is rice production. Addressing this problem, MDRI is working with the German Leibniz Institute for Economic Research (RWI) for a study on agriculture insurance in the region in […]
Advancing Jurisdictional Sustainability in Vietnam, focusing on the Central Highlands Region
In 2021-2023, MDRI acted as a technical partner of the European Forest Institute (EFI) in the Project “Advancing jurisdictional sustainability in Vietnam, focusing on the Central Highlands region”. This project adopted a jurisdictional approach to enhancing the technical capacity of local actors in sustainable deforestation-free governance of forestry and agricultural production, with the lead of […]