Chu Kheo Cao hamlet is a Hmong village located on a high mountain in Khun Ha commune, Tam Duong district, Lai Chau province. For a long time, people in the village still keep cattle near their houses and roads, so the environment in the village is very polluted and there is a high risk of disease. Stemming [...]
Rice fields and straw dunes have long become familiar images associated with life in rural areas of Vietnam. However, at present, many farmers still burn straw after harvesting rice, because they think that it is quick, reducing labor use, destroying some pathogens and could collecting rice straw after the rice crop; but they did [...]
July 2nd 2019, The Consultative Institute for Socio-Economic Development of Rural and Mountainous Areas (CISDOMA) welcomed a Delegation of senior Myanmar Government Officials in a study tour on law and policy development in land sector. Sharing and discussion between delegates The delegation comprises of 26 participants including senior officials from different committees of Myanmar Upper House, [...]
On February 27, 2019, at Tam Duong – Lai Chau, 30 delegates attended a workshop for sharing experience in using the mobile app for monitoring agriculture inputs, and pesticide mapping. The workshop was co-organized by the Consultative Institute for Socio-Economic Development of Rural and Mountainous Areas (CISDOMA) and Agro-ecology Learning alliance in South East Asia [...]
Hanoi, January 25th, 2019, fifteen experts attended a dialogue on land accumulation and concentration in agriculture, organized by the Consultative Institute for Socio-Economic Development – (CISDOMA) and Vietnam Institute for Economic and Policy Research (VERP) with the support of Oxfam in Viet Nam. Vietnamese government is expressing great interest and taking different actions to promote [...]
On December 23, 2018, CISDOMA, in collaboration with Center for Development and Integration (CDI), Association of Vietnam Retailers (AVR) and Information Center for Agriculture and Rural Development (AGROINFO) co-organized “Vietfarm Award – Pride of Vietnam Agro-products 2018”, which is funded by Irish Aid as the main sponsor. VietFarm award and Vietfarm standards aim to promote [...]
Parent’s capacity and involvement play an integral role in the development of a child. With regards to academic achievement, parent participation in school activities has been proved to boost school success and improvement. Identifying parents as a critical link in advancing education, the project “Promoting inclusive and relevant early childhood care and education for ethnic [...]
On 25-26 of July 2018, CISDOMA conducted a training for 30 farmers to introduce them to an input tracking mobile phone app (rtWork), with a view to implementing it in Tam Duong, Lai Chau, for the summer-autumn maize crop. This smart phone app has the potential to optimize production input management, which facilitates origin tracking [...]
Hanoi June 08, 2018, twenty participants coming from various organizations in Laos and Vietnam attended a one-day sharing workshop on simulation games organized by the Consultative Institute for Socio-Economic Development - CISDOMA. From practical experiences of practitioners, great potential for application of the games was observed as the result from this workshop. On June 08, [...]
Under the project “Citizens Monitoring Land Governance in Vietnam”, The Consultative Institute for Socio-Economic Development of Rural and Mountainous Areas – CISDOMA was responsible for compiling and publishing “The Handbook on Citizens Monitoring Land Use and Governance”. The handbook provides guidelines on methodologies and processes with which citizens could monitor, collect information on, and conduct [...]
