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Vietnam's Mekong Delta. Blood cholinesterase tests suggest that the incidence of poisoning from exposure to organophosphates … and carbamates is quite high in Vietnam. Using the medical test results as benchmarks, the authors find that farmers' self …
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The Mekong Delta (MKD) is Vietnam's most productive agricultural region, and its agroeconomy is well integrated into …
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Vietnam made remarkable progress in poverty reduction in the 1990s. Poverty rates decreased from 58% to 37% between … administration in Vietnam. Program 135 was established in 1998 to provide resources to more than 1,700 of the poorest communes for …
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This report focuses on promoting low-carbon rice production systems in Vietnam. There are many sources of greenhouse … gas (GHG) emissions within the agricultural sector in Vietnam, including along value chains and within the whole agri … piloted in Vietnam and require significant upscaling at the farm-level. This report considers challenges and practical actions …
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export in An Giang province in the Mekong delta of southern Vietnam and for domestic rice and alternative stock feed crops …One area of weakness in current agricultural policy work in Vietnam is the lack of a clear understanding of both the … Vietnam. Tradeoffs are involved in all production decisions and the PAM provides a systematic way of comparing the private and …
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land acquisition and voluntary land conversion in Vietnam; the study on land valuation mechanisms for compensation, support … and resettlement in Vietnam; and the study on improving the system for resolving complaints on compensation, support and … resettlement in Vietnam. The objective of the study was to assess the issues relating to involuntary and voluntary land conversion …
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basic targets for economic growth and poverty reduction in the Mekong River Delta (MRD). This analysis is put in the general …
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"The rationale for public investment in rural roads is that households can better exploit agricultural and nonagricultural opportunities to use labor and capital more efficiently. But significant knowledge gaps remain as to how opportunities provided by roads actually filter back into household...
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"Market-oriented reforms of infrastructure in developing countries tend to focus primarily on commercially viable services in urban areas. Nevertheless, an increasing number of countries are beginning to experiment with extending the market paradigm to infrastructure services in rural areas that...
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The project, with an IDA credit of US$30 million, and a total of $60 million was implemented by the government between 1998 and 2004. It was jointly financed by KFW $7m; IFAD, $10; GoG $7.1m; District Assemblies $3.0m and beneficiaries $2.9m. Its main objective was to support the government's...
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