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Multi-stakeholder Platforms for Sustainable Food systems

On May 18, 2021 nearly 120 delegates participated in a multistakeholder dialogue on sustainable food systems co-organized by the Netherlands Food Partnership, Rabobank, Wageningen University & Research, VNO NCW, Oxfam Novib, Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality, Ministry of Foreign Affairs. On this forum, CISDOMA’s representative shared the case studies on cooperative models of [...]

May 19th, 2021|Activities, Uncategorized|

Another perspective on gender – insensitive advertising

It has been 7 years since the government officially issued a set of gender indicators in the media, however, gender-insensitive advertising products still appear popular in all news channels. The lack of a consistent effort from both viewers and producers is the bottleneck of this problem. Observing in forums promoting gender equality, brand boycotts with [...]

April 3rd, 2021|Activities, Uncategorized|

Effective application of the green fungi inoculants model in preventing brown planthopper

With the orientation of constructing biosecure rice cultivation areas in Nga Nam town, Soc Trang province, the project "Strengthen the resilience of poor population through climate change adaptive livelihoods" was deployed the application model of green fungi inoculants in the prevention of rice brown planthopper on an area of more than 180 hectares. This is [...]

April 2nd, 2021|Activities, Uncategorized|

Remove barriers to enhance efficiency use of agricultural land and ensuring farmers ‘rights

Land Law 2013 has positively contributed to improving State management of land. However, after 6 years of implementation, the Law revealed many inadequacies in its contents, its bellow-expectation responsiveness to development needs; and hindered the effectiveness in management and use of agricultural land. On August 4, 2020, the Prime Minister issued Decision No. 1188 / [...]

March 1st, 2021|Activities, Uncategorized|

Regular meeting with universities participating in the project “Youth address gender stereotypes and promoting gender equality in Vietnam”.

In January 2021, the  Institute for Socio-Economic Development of Rural and Mountainous Areas, together with 5 universities, held quarterly meetings to review the preliminary assessment of the first-year activities implementation of the project "Youth participate in changing gender stereotypes and promoting gender equality in Vietnam". Attending the meetings were Mr. Dao Ngoc Ninh - Deputy Director [...]

January 27th, 2021|Activities, Uncategorized|

Connecting communities with entrepreneurs to conserve water resources

Since November 2019, CISDOMA has cooperated with Tam Duong District People's Committee, with the support of the Management Board of Community Development Programs in Tam Duong District establised successfully activities in the Water Conservation Program funded by Heineken Vietnam. The project is implemented in the two communes of Binh Lu and Ho Thau, with a [...]

December 7th, 2020|Activities, News room, Uncategorized|

Reconstructing life after disaster for the people in Central Vietnam

Rain and floods occurred on a large scale in more than 11 central provinces, leaving many families to fall into a emtry-handed situation. Supporting the people to rebuild their lives is a major task: what to prioritize and how to rebuild is an urgent issue posed for the authorities. Recently, Mr. Dao Ngoc Ninh, Deputy [...]

December 7th, 2020|Activities, News room, Uncategorized|

Land for Ethnic Minorities: Needs Comprehensive policy and effective enforcement

In recent years, the Party and State have issued many policies on land settlement for ethnic minorities, lift hundreds of thousands of households from poverty. However, besides that, there are still many ethnic minority households still lacking residential land and production land. In order to ensure that ethnic minorities can access and use land in [...]

October 30th, 2020|Activities, News room, Uncategorized|

Developing Handbook for Community Engagement at Vietnam Rubber Group

On July 16-17, 2020, cooperated with Vietnam Rubber Industry Group – VRG, CISDOMA organized a training course to introduce the Handbook for Community Engagement for VRG managers. 34 managers of VRG’s branches in Vietnam and representatives of VRG's member companies in Laos and Cambodia participated in this training. Following up with the training, a field [...]

August 13th, 2020|Activities, Uncategorized|

Minimize harmful effects of pesticides and herbicides on farmers and consumers’ health

Although Vietnam has made great efforts to reduce the use of toxic chemicals in agriculture, the use of pesticides and herbicides remains common and causes negative impacts on the environment, on farmer's health and food safety. In recent years, CISDOMA has carried out many activities to address this issue. According to the Plant Protection Department [...]

March 25th, 2020|Activities, Uncategorized|