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Update for the Making economicintegration work for the rural poor through contract farming practices
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One of Sumernet’s current projects, Making economic integration work for the rural poor through contract farming practices, is undertaking critical research to address challenges being faced by small farmers as the agriculture industry further streamlines itself from the top down. This collaboration between SEI and four teams within the GMS countries of Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Thailand will identify and evaluate the links between how contract farming is approached and the resulting risks and benefits... |
Research Proposal Development Workshop of Sumernet-CDKN
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Sumernet’s latest research development workshop |
Joint Sumernet-CDKN Call for Proposals
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Research grants for Southeast Asia |
Lists of concept note submission submitters
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The submission period for the “2nd Sumernet Call for Proposals 2011” is now over. |
Getting a head start on tackling climate-change issues
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Chiang Khan district in Loei province is the first local municipality to embrace climate-change issues and incorporate them into a sustainable development plan drawn up with assistance from the Stockholm Environmental Institute (SEI) and the Southeast Asia Start Regional Centre (START) based at Chulalongkorn University. |
Call for Mekong Research Proposals
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The 2nd Round of Sumernet research funding is now open for the themes Transboundary issues, Urbanization, and Climate Change and Energy. Proposals for approximately US$50,000-60,000 each should be submitted electronically to
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by 4th February 2011. |
Adaptation Planning for Mekong Livelihoods Targets Communities and Media
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Two-day scenario-based workshop in the picturesque Mekong town of Chiang Khan emphasizes need for visionary problem solving in climate change adaptation The pulse in the room was still racing. Residents of this Mekong River community had just concluded two days of debating, brainstorming and forecasting development paths that this emerging tourist town might take amidst this new era of climate change, yet they wanted more. |
Sumernet Week, 29th November to 3rd December 2010
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Sumernet Week 29th November to 3rd December 2010 As part of Sumernet’s objective to help build a robust regional knowledge-based research network and policy engagement platform, Sumernet Secretariat is organizing a Sumernet Week event from 29 November to 3rd December. The event will bring together research partners, Sumernet Advisory Group (SAG), policy think tanks and key knowledge users to share their knowledge and experience to catalyze discourses on key strategic sustainable development issues in the Mekong Region. |
Concept Notes Approved for Sumernet Research 2010
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To further support its research network’s ability to influence policy development on sustainable development issues in the Mekong region, three new projects have been selected as eligible for Sumernet funding. • Livelihood vulnerability to flooding in Lower Mekong Basin: options for enhancing adaptive capacity of communities living within the most vulnerable floodplains in Cambodia and Vietnam, to be led by the Mekong Delta Development Research Institute at Can Tho University. • Negotiating strategies to improve livelihood and paths out of poverty: finding new windows of opportunity for the Mekong’s rural poor in the context of regional economic integration, to be led by Khon Kaen University. • Evaluation of a pilot program on payments for forest environmental services in Vietnam and their policy implications for Laos and Cambodia to be led by the College of Economics at Hue University. |
Sumernet video on the plight of Burmese migrant workers.
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Around midnight on 10th April 2008, on the road to Phang-Nga province, 121 workers from Myanmar were smuggled into Thailand, hidden in the back of a container truck. This was not unusual – except that on this night, the truck's cooling system happened to break down, cutting off the air supply to passengers. By the time the truck stopped, it was too late – 54 Burmese migrants had died: 17 women and 37 men. |