CPWF Mekong Communications Coordinator Terry Clayton reviews a recent publication and finds it—beautiful. When was the last time you picked up a beautiful book? I don’t mean a book with beautiful pictures, there are lots of those. I mean a book so beautifully laid out and illustrated that it seduces [...]
Is there a crisis of public knowledge? Learn more in this highly readable and informative report from the conference on Confronting Unequal Worlds of Development. The conference “Confronting Unequal Worlds of Development: Crisis of Public Knowledge, and the Transnational Social Science Agenda” was held at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. 25-26 [...]
World Water Day lasts a week in Laos. This year the Lao Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment organized events including art competitions, writing songs, a golf tournament and a Science Seminar. The Challenge Program on Water and Food helped sponsor the Science Seminar through an Opportunity Fund grant. The [...]
How are people supposed to talk to each other if they don’t speak the same language? I had my first encounter with this question during the planning meetings for MK11’s consultation workshops in Ngoy district, Luang Prabang province. I was sitting at a table with staff members from Village Focus [...]
March 8, 2013—For International Women’s Day, Andrew Noble, Interim Director of the CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems reflects on the importance of the inclusion of women in natural resource management and agriculture. Women grow feed for their livestock on the grassy slopes pictured above. Waste generated by [...]
CPWF-Mekong has now been working in the Mekong for almost four years. What have we achieved. Besides implementing a wide variety of projects, below are the emerging results from the program. By supporting dialogues surrounding the Hydropower Sustainability Assessment Protocols (HSAP), these are now firmly established in the Mekong as one facet of the discussion [...]
The goal of this mini-blog series is to document the participatory process of a community modelling project taking place in the Mekong. Funded through a CPWF Research into Use grant, the project seeks to increase the diversity of stakeholders involved in the management of water resources in the Nam Theun [...]
The goal of this mini-blog series is to document the participatory process of a community modelling project taking place in the Mekong. Funded through a CPWF Research into Use grant, the project seeks to increase the diversity of stakeholders involved in the management of water resources in the Nam Theun [...]
This post was originally published on December 18, 2012 on The Water Channel Blog. Dam building is a complicated and messy business. The Mekong region exemplifies the contradictions, problems and concerns that different groups hold. More than 140 dams are planned for the lower Mekong Basin and many are [...]
The proceedings from the Mekong Forum on Water, Food and Energy are now available here. The forum was held from November 13-14 in Hanoi. Summaries of the 15 sessions can be found in the proceedings. Read the full story…
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