Vietnam
<p>With a large population and limited availability of land, Vietnam’s endowment of 0.3 hectare of agricultural land per person is among the lowest in the world.Vietnam is historically a nation of small-scale rice farmers: the average farm size is 1,560 square meters, less than one-third that of Thailand or Cambodia. Rapid economic growth in the past two decades has converted up to one million hectares of household farmland...</p>
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95,540,395
Urban population
35.9 %
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04 March 2025
Debido al prologado clima seco en Vietnam, las excesivas lluvias en Indonesia, y las condiciones climáticas secas y calurosas en Brasil la producción de café se ha visto afectada. La subida de precios muestra una necesidad de invertir más en tecnología, e investigación y desarrollo en el sector del…
16 December 2022
Despite the work, a new report says China has reclaimed 6 times more land in 10 years.
Main photo: Pearson Reef, a rock located in the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea, has been one of the locations Vietnam has been expanding. The red square indicates Vietnam’s outpost there. Credit: CSIS…
23 June 2022
Known as the rice basket of the country, the delta now sees houses tumbling into rivers and livelihoods lost
When a riverbank subsided and gave way, Tran Van Bi’s house collapsed into a river in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta four years ago. Everything his family had accumulated over 32 years was gone…
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04 February 2025
On January 23, 2025, the Land Portal Foundation and Mekong Region Land Governance (MRLG) convened a webinar to explore the evolving landscape of agricultural investments in the Mekong region. Experts from various sectors joined to discuss the impact of industrial crops, smallholder farmer…
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From the 28- 30 May 2018 , The Mekong Region Land Governance (MRLG) project and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) welcomed participants to join in on the second Regional Land Forum, held in Bangkok, Thailand.
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