Vietnam
With a large population and limited availability of land, Vietnam’s endowment of 0.3 hectare of agricultural land per person is among the lowest in the world.Vietnam is historically a nation of small-scale rice farmers: the average farm size is 1,560 square meters, less than one-third that of Thailand or Cambodia. Rapid economic growth in the past two decades has converted up to one million hectares of household farmland...
Vietnam steps up South China Sea land reclamation
16 December 2022
Vietnam has accelerated its island building in the South China Sea where China has fully militarized three of its artificial islands, with Hanoi reclaiming about 80% of new land in the last year, a new study found.
In the Mekong Delta, sand mining means lost homes and fortunes
23 June 2022
Known as the rice basket of the country, the delta now sees houses tumbling into rivers and livelihoods lost When a riverbank subsided and gave way, Tran Van Bi’s house collapsed into a river in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta four years ago. Everything his family had accumulated over 32 years was gone in…
Hundreds of Ede families in Vietnam demonstrate to demand land from forestry company
1 June 2022
Main photo: A screenshot of a video of villagers in Lang village, Ea Pok town, Cu Mgar district in south-central Vietnam's Dak Lak province who have been proesting since mid-May to reclaim about 40 hectares of arable land from a forestry company. (Protesters' Facebook page). Hundreds of ethnic…
Vietnam
projects
SFM: Promotion of Sustainable Forest and Land Management in the Vietnam Uplands
Value: $0.00
Donors: Global Environment Facility
Improving Advocacy Capacity- Land Rights
Value: €45,000.00
Donors: Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands
GLA Power of Voices Partnership
Value: €188,650.00
Donors: Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands
A Story about Maize: Tracing a value chain from land-use to supermarket shelf
13 May 2022
This Land Portal data story looks at the increase of maize production in and around Thailand, and its relation to a poultry value chain as an ingredient in animal feed.
WEBINARS: Capturing Knowledge from the Implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Governance of Tenure (VGGT)
Over the past nine years, the project on Supporting Implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests (VGGT)has helped countries make political commitments towards the eradication of hunger, food insecurity, and malnutrition, with the…
