Tag Archives: small-scale

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

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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

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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

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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

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1902, 2016

The Mekong Delta – Where the Magic Happens

Lisa Van Wageningen/ February 19, 2016/ Blog/ 0 comments

The main reason why I am in South-East Asia is because I did not like the idea of me writing a thesis on shrimp farming, without ever having seen a shrimp farm. In Vietnam, about 80 percent of the shrimp farms are located in the South. There are some shrimp farms in the centre and the North of the country,

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2001, 2016

Q-GAP Thailand

contributor/ January 20, 2016/ Projects/ 0 comments

SurveyQ-GAP Thailand Q-GAP in Thailand emphasizes how local buyers and international buyers differ in their perspective on safe and quality foods. Pummelo farmers express their need for safety and health regulations.