In-country Collaboration

Well-developed collaborations with:

1. Institutes, Universities, Departments, and Networks in education-training and research projects

An Giang University, Mekong University, Nong Lam University, Univ. of Economics at HCMC, Agro-Forestry Univ. at Hue, Tay Nguyen Uni., Hanoi Agriculture University (HAU1), ...

Cuu Long Rice Research Institute (CLRRI), Southern Institute for Fruit Research (SOFRI), National and Southern Institutes for Agricultural Sciences (IAS and IAS2), National Institute for Agricultural Planning and Projection at HCMC (Sub-NIAPP), Research Institute for Aquaculture at HCMC (RIA2), ...

National Agricultural Extension Centre, Plant Protection Department and Southern Centre (all of MARD), Central Board for Ethnicities, ...

Vietnam Farming Systems Network (founder), Environmental Economic Network (member), involving several institutions throughout VN

2. Provinces, Districts in MD through contracts in development consultancy, training, technology transfer, seed supply, poverty reduction projects

International Collaboration

Collaborations with a number of international, governmental, and non-governmental organizations through projects on human capacity building, rural development, poverty reduction, farming systems research, extension,…

CIDA (Canada): Livelihood improvement in Tra Vinh

SAREC (Sweden): Rural development research and human capacity building

DANIDA (Denmark): Capacity building for seed research, production and trading units (ASPS)

VVOB (Belgium): MD Agri. Extension project, Participatory Technology Development (PTD)

SEARICE: Community-based biodiversity development and conservation (CBDC)

RMIT (Australia): Human capacity building for research and educatio

WB, UNDP, FAO, TRIAS & VVOB (Belgium), CARE, OXFAM (UK, USA): Community capacity building and rural development

AusAID: Mekong Delta Poverty Analysis and solutions (MDPA project)

IRRI: Rice variety/farming techniques research

IPGRI: Conservation of plant genetic resources

IDRC (Canada): Community-based natural resource management (CBNRM)

IRRI and DFID: Diversification of agriculture in freshwater areas of Ca Mau peninsula

ACIAR (Australia): Sustainability of rice-shrimp systems in brackish water areas

JIRCAS (Japan): Integrated farming systems

IRRI and ILRI: Integrated crop-animal systems