Category Archives: Blog

0105, 2018

Investigating the Role of Market Incentives and Local State Actors for Group Forest Certification in Vietnam

Kyle Wagner/ May 1, 2018/ Blog/ 0 comments

By: Nga Thi Ha Master of Public Policy Crawford School of Public Policy The Australian National University Canberra, Australia The Vietnamese Government has implemented far reaching policies and programs to increase tree cover by promoting plantation forestry. This has resulted in a current area of 3.4 million ha. of plantations, about half managed by smallholders and this is continuing to

1105, 2017

Experimenting with focus groups

contributor/ May 11, 2017/ Blog/ 0 comments

Posted on behalf of Mariska Bottema, PhD candidate at the Environmental Policy Group at Wageningen University and Research Centre. I just completed research in my third field study site and would like to use this opportunity to reflect on some of my experiences with conducting focus groups, since this was the first time I have applied this method of data

3004, 2017

Payment for Environmental Service Forest Restoration Project, Chiang Mai Province, Thailand

contributor/ April 30, 2017/ Blog/ 0 comments

Posted on behalf of Eza King, Master’s Candidate Research Center for Social Science and Sustainable Development, Chiang Mai University, Thailand The residents of Pong Khrai village in Chiang Mai Province, northern Thailand have a reputation for being conservation minded. I wasn’t sure exactly what this meant but the staff at Lowering Emissions in Asia’s Forests (LEAF) Thailand had assured me,

0304, 2017

Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) in Upper Thung Jaw Watershed, Hua Lao Village, Thailand

contributor/ April 3, 2017/ Blog/ 0 comments

An Overview of the Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) project in Upper Thung Jaw Watershed, Hua Lao Village, Pa Pae Subdistrict, Mae Taeng District, Chiang Mai Province, Thailand Posted on behalf of Rapipun Maoyot, Chiang Mai University Using information gathered from the Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) study in Hua Lao Village in which Karen people live, historical backgrounds of

1903, 2017

The Community Forest of Hua Thung Village

contributor/ March 19, 2017/ Blog/ 1 comments

Posted on behalf of Chattrabhorn Bua-in, Master’s student, Chiang Mai University This is a sharing of my fieldwork experiences in Hua Thung village, Thailand. I would like to talk about the area of the community forest of Hua Thung village during quite a long interval of fieldwork. My fieldwork gave me the opportunity to view different seasonal conditions of the

2402, 2017

Wild mushroom collecting: An open access is not open

contributor/ February 24, 2017/ Blog/ 0 comments

Posted on behalf of: Liu Xingyong and Lu Xing, Yunnan University Wild mushroom is very delicious and nutritious. Yunnan Province in the southwest China has the richest wild mushroom in China and has an annual value of RMB 10 billion (USD1.43 billion). At present, wild mushroom can’t be artificially cultivated and must be collected by farmers in uplands from forests

0711, 2016

Seafood Certification and ‘the social’

Lisa Van Wageningen/ November 7, 2016/ Blog/ 0 comments

In 2014, an investigation from The Guardian revealed that the global shrimp supply chain was linked to Thai ‘ghost ships’ that, to quote, ‘enslaved and even killed workers’. The fish caught on these ‘ghost ships’ was used as food in shrimp farms, the product of which was sold to supermarkets in the US and in Europe. This scandal and its

1710, 2016

Ecotourism in Laos

Kyle Wagner/ October 17, 2016/ Blog/ 3 comments

For the summer of 2016, my fieldwork was set in North East Lao PDR at the Nam Et-Phou Louey (NEPL) National Protected Area. This protected area is roughly 4,229 km2 and is home to a number of endangered species such as the tiger, gaur, Sambar deer, and white-cheeked gibbon. Wildlife Conservation Society, an INGO aimed at “saving wildlife and wild

1809, 2016

Investigating the Impacts of Fisheries Reform in Songkhla, Thailand

contributor/ September 18, 2016/ Blog/ 0 comments

Olivia Tran – Master’s student at the University of Ottawa, Canada Songkhla port was quiet. The afternoon air smelled strongly of fish and salt, a comforting smell for anyone who has worked in fisheries. Once every block, you might see a family, some resting fish porters, or a few people cleaning and icing fish, but it was largely empty. While

1208, 2016

11th Asian Fisheries and Aquaculture Forum – “Asian Food Security for the World”

Yavanna Puts/ August 12, 2016/ Blog/ 0 comments

Posted on behalf of Yavanna Puts – Master’s student, Wageningen University Photo credit: https://www.facebook.com/aseanfisheriesexpo2016/photos_stream Last week was the 11th Asian fisheries and aquaculture forum in Bangkok, Thailand. For my thesis research I decided to go there and find interesting people to interview, as well as join the scientific sessions and keynotes of the conference. First off, getting interviews during a