November 16, 2011
Genetically-modified (GM) maize on trial cultivation at a farm in Vietnam. More and more experts are concerned about the harmful consequences of GM crops and Vietnam’s plans to cultivate them on a wide scale. Vietnamese experts are increasingly concerned about genetically-modified (GM) plants that have undergone trials and are about to be cultivated widely. [...]
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March 13, 2011
Dr. Nguyen Van Bo Dr. Nguyen Van Bo, head of the Vietnam Academy of Agricultural Science, has been named to a new international commission on sustainable agriculture and climate change created to confront threats to global food security. The new commission is an initiative of the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security [...]
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February 22, 2011
A boat full of illegal immigrants enters the port of the Italian island of Lampedusa escorted by a Coast Guard vessel on February 20. Fifty million "environmental refugees" will flood into the global north by 2020, fleeing food shortages sparked by climate change, experts warned at a major science conference that ended here Monday. "In [...]
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December 7, 2010
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks at a luncheon in Hanoi in July. Her back-to-back visits to Vietnam this year articulated the rising US commitment to bilateral relations. Hillary Clinton’s back-to-back visits to Hanoi articulated the rising US commitment to US-Vietnam relations. Clinton’s recent announcement “The US is back in Southeast Asia,” struck a [...]
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November 15, 2010
The environmental advocacy group Greenpeace has called for the adoption of “readily available” food security solutions instead of hugely problematic ones like genetically engineered rice. “Genetically engineered (GE) rice is sometimes proposed as a solution to the impacts of climate change although there is no evidence that GE crops can play a role in [...]
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January 30, 2010
“We should think of reform and increase of mandates and power for the FAO,” said PM Nguyen Tan Dung at the WEF’s session on rethinking how to feed the world on January 29. Hereafter is the PM’s full speech at the session: Food security is not merely an economic or humanitarian issue, but also plays [...]
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January 17, 2010
Farmers load sacks of rice onto a cart after harvesting a rice paddy field outside Hanoi in 2009. Vietnamâs rice exports were at a new high last year at more than six million tons, but analysts cautioned against complacency saying the country owed the success to external factors rather than internal strengths. They said demand [...]
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December 18, 2009
Vietnam, the world second largest rice exporter, needs greater international help to deal with climate change to ensure global food security, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has told the Copenhagen Climate Change Summit. When sea levels rise a further 0.75 to 1 meter, Vietnamâs river basins and coastal forests will be 19-38 percent under water, [...]
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December 7, 2009
Vietnam, the worldâs second-biggest rice exporter, said Wednesday that world food security depends on curbing global warming. âThe rice bowl of Vietnam will be severely affectedâ without needed action, Nguyen Khac Hieu, Deputy Director of the Department of the Hydrometeorology and Climate Change, told reporters before key global climate talks next week in Copenhagen.âItâs not [...]
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December 4, 2009
LookAtVietnam – The rice price has been escalating, prompting stockpiling and triggering rumors that events could mirror the rice price fever that took place in early 2008. Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Nguyen Thanh Bien As a reaction deputy minister of industry and trade Nguyen Thanh Bien has reassured the public that Vietnam does [...]
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