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Policy Brief - Meeting Regional and Global Demands for Rubber: A Key to Poverty Alleviation in Lao PDR?

Demand for natural rubber on world commodity markets has increased dramatically over the past decade in association with rapid economic growth in China and India...

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Policy Brief - Sustaining Tonle Sap: An Assessment of Development Challenges Facing the Great Lake

The Greater Mekong Sub-Region is a region in flux - the economies of the region are developing rapidly, the region is witnessing an unprecedented level of integration, with enormous investment transforming the physical, social and economic landscape of the region. One

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Sumernet Research 2008 Map

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FACT SHEET Sumernet (Sustainable Mekong Research Network)

Sumernet’s ultimate objective is to marshal regional and global intellectual resources for the production of policyrelevant knowledge on sustainability issue in the Mekong region, and through such collaboration help bring together a regional knowledge community, a network of stakeholders, analysts, and advocates committed to sustainable development for economic, environment and social well being of the Mekong people.

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Meeting Regional and Global Demands for Rubber: A Key to Poverty Alleviation in Lao PDR?

This paper discusses a brief history of rubber production in China, Vietnam and north-eastern Thailand and then focuses on the current rapid increase of rubber production in Lao PDR that is being driven predominantly by investors from China and Vietnam.

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Sustaining Tonle Sap: An Assessment of Development Challenges Facing the Great Lake

The Tonle Sap Lake, known also as the Great Lake, lies in the central plains of Cambodia. It is known for many things, its exceptional water regime with huge changes in the lake’s water level and water volume between different seasons; its unique reverse flow acting as a store for the Mekong during the flood season and then providing it water as the flood recedes; for its productivity, reported to be one of the most productive fisheries resources in the world, and for its social characteristics and diversity with floating and stilted villages.

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Challenges to sustainable Development in the Mekong Delta: Regional and National Policy Issues and Research Needs

The purpose of this Report on conditions in the Mekong Delta, consisting of four detailed chapters that address flooding and salinity management, livelihoods and resource use strategies, fisheries policy, and competition for water use, is to set out the background to how a transition to sustainable development in the Mekong region might be achieved.

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Sumernet Inception Meeting
Chulalongkorn University
29th September to 1st October, 2005

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Sustainable Mekong Research Network Brochure

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Property Reduction and Shifting Cultivation Stabilization in the Uplands of Lao PDR

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Investments & Financial Flows
By Cecilia Bringprocope
SEI

Presentation from Sumernet Partner's Meeting held in
Bangkok during 9-12 August 2004

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Poverty, Vulnerability and Livelihoods in Cambodia
By Mak Sitthirit
FACT

Presentation from Sumernet Partner's Meeting held in
Bangkok during 9-12 August 2004

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Water and Sanity
By Dr. Le Quang Minh
Can Tho University

Presentation from Sumernet Partner's Meeting held in
Bangkok during 9-12 August 2004

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