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Partners join up to kick off an initiative to better Vietnamese farmers’ lives

Writer: Nguyen Ngoc Son, project officer for Land and Agriculture, GIZ Vietnam The second phase of the Better Rice Initiative Asia (BRIA II) will be launched in the Mekong Delta provinces at the end of this month. Olam International, together with Department of Cooperative Economy and Rural and German International Cooperation (GIZ) plan to launch …

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New Technology helps rubber farmers’ livelihood

Writer: Agriculture and Food Cluster Team GIZ Thailand Agriculture and Food, the Rubber Authority of Thailand (RAOT), stakeholders in the rubber supply chains and experts met to discuss improvement of data collection with the use of technology on “Strengthening the rubber supply partnership with the ICT application” at Rama Garden Hotel, Bangkok. “We need a good data management in order …

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Rice Production to decline by 10% from 1 Celsius increase in climate temperature

Writer: Agriculture and Food Cluster Team Is Climate Change real? Dr. Chitnucha Buddabon, Director of Rice Research Center in Ubonratchani Province reaffirmed the fact that the weather in Thailand has changed and temperature has increased. He stated that one increase in temperature will reduce rice production by 10%. Rice plays an important role in Thailand …

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MOSA workshop inspires government officers on Sustainability Agriculture

Writer: Naylinya Chappanapong, Senior Communication Officer, GIZ Thailand’s Agriculture and Food Cluster Ms.Saptini M. Rahajeng from Indonesia is one of  the 29 participants in ASEAN who attended the Regional Workshop on Capacity Development and Leadership in Sustainable Agriculture through Module on Sustainability Agriculture  (MOSA), Training Inventory and Sustainability Assessment in ASEAN hosted by the Thai …

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What a young Swiss agricultural student learnt from Thai rice farmers

Writer: Naylinya Chappanapong, Senior Communication Officer, GIZ Thailand’s Agriculture and Food Cluster I am interested in this project because we all need to eat food and rice is a stable food for almost half of the world population.  The Food industry currently produces unhealthy and unsafe food for consumers which is why I am interested in …

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