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  1. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2011
    Vietnam

    Bioenergy has received a lot of attention over the past years, both from the side of governments looking for ways to mitigate climate change, ensure energy security, strengthen the agricultural sector and promote development, and investors seizing business opportunities that occurred largely due to government support in the form of targets and mandates.

  2. Library Resource
    Training Resources & Tools
    February, 2015
    Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam

    To accompany the training video (available here) produced by USAID-funded programs GREEN Mekong and USAID LEAF Asia, a discussion guide is now available for trainers and grassroots facilitators to delve deeper into the gender aspect of social equity in terms of forest-based climate change initiatives, including REDD+. The questions in the guide will help facilitate discussions concerning forest management practices and forest governance in the local and institutional contexts.

  3. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2015
    Vietnam

    Goods and services provided by functioning ecosystems contribute directly and indirectly to human welfare and therefore represent a significant, yet often uncounted, portion of the total economic value of the landscape we live in. While there are many ways that humans can value their landscape, the ability to estimate the economic value of ecosystem goods and services provided by a landscape is increasingly recognized as 2

    a valuable tool in weighing trade-offs in environmental decision-making and land-use planning.

  4. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2004
    Vietnam

    While Vietnam's reforms provided some of the weakest legal private property rights amongst the transitions countries, cities like Ho Chi Minh City have booming domestic real estate markets. Interestingly, while most properties in 2001 did not have legal title, those on the market did advertise a variety of property rights claims. Employing a hedonic price model to analyse the pattern of prices at which sellers offer properties in Ho Chi Minh City, this study examines how this market values property rights.

  5. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2015
    Cambodia, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam

    East–Southeast Asia is currently one of the fastest urbanizing regions in the world, with countries such as China climbing from 20 to 50% urbanized in just a few decades. By 2050, these countries are projected to add 1 billion people, with 90% of that growth occurring in cities.

  6. Library Resource
    August, 2013
    Asia, Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam

    This study reviews the available
    quantitative and qualitative information on urban poverty
    issues and trends in the East Asia and Pacific (EAP) Region,
    with particular focus on Indonesia, the Philippines, and
    Vietnam. The review is a desk study-which is limited to
    material accessible to the Bank in Washington and draws
    mainly on existing field work and other published and
    unpublished papers. The empirical analysis focuses on the

  7. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    May, 2022
    China, Japan, South-Eastern Asia, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, Europe, United Kingdom

     

    This is the PDF version of an online data story published by Land Portal on 12 May 2022.


    Maize is a key global cash crop, produced in every continent except Antarctica. As a flex crop, it has multiple uses including for direct human consumption, as an ingredient for animal feed, as a key component in processed foods, or in ethanol production. According to figures from FAOSTAT, global production increased from 0.2 to 1.2 billion tons between 1961 and 2020.

  8. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2008
    Bangladesh, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Chad, Chile, China, Colombia, Ecuador, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Honduras, India, Iran, Kenya, Laos, Mali, Mozambique, Nepal, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Peru, South Africa, Sudan, Thailand, Togo, Uganda, Vietnam, Zimbabwe, Western Africa, Middle Africa, Africa, Asia, Central America, South America, Western Asia, Southern Asia, South-Eastern Asia, Southern Africa

    This reports summarizes and synthesizes activities and achievements of the CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF) through the end of 2007. The CPWF is an intiative of the CGIAR designed to take on the global challenge of water scarcity and food security.

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