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Author:: Prashanth Parameswaran
Publication Date:: 07-2010
Content Type:: Policy Brief
Institution:: Project 2049 Institute
Abstract:: The Mekong River faces challenges from hydropower, demographic and development pressures to climate change that threaten to alter the river. These trends have the potential to trigger a serious crisis characterized by water shortages, forced migration, food insecurity, and prolonged floods and droughts. Concerted efforts will be necessary to avert serious crisis along the Mekong.
Topic:: Climate Change, Demographics, Development, Energy Policy, Migration, and Food Security
Political Geography:: Cambodia, Laos, and Mekong River

Author:: Jefferson Fox
Publication Date:: 11-2009
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: The Cato Institute
Abstract:: Over the last half-century, public policy has affected land-use practices across the borders linking China, Thailand, and Laos. Political and economic reforms have facilitated labor mobility and a shift in agricultural practices away from staple grains and toward a diverse array of cash crops, rubber being one of the foremost. China has promoted the conversion of forests to rubber agroforestry in southern Yunnan—profitable for farmers, but a concern in terms of biodiversity and long-term viability. In Thailand, the response is at the other end of the spectrum as the government's concerns about land-use practices and watershed management have led to policies that dramatically constrain land-use practices and limit tenure rights. In Laos the future is not yet clear. Government policies provide weak support for both private land ownership and protected areas. In a global environment where national policy has such a dramatic effect on land use and land cover, the factors behind land-use change merit close examination.
Topic:: Agriculture and Economics
Political Geography:: China, Asia, Thailand, Southeast Asia, and Laos

Publication Date:: 10-2007
Content Type:: Policy Brief
Institution:: Oxfam Publishing
Abstract:: During recent years, drought has become a common occurrence in most areas in the Mekong River Delta of the Mekong region, including nine provinces in the Southern Central and Central Highland regions in Viet Nam. The Department of Water Resources, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD), has estimated that between 1 and 1.3 million people (13–17 per cent of the total population) are affected by drought in these provinces and hence are in need of assistance. Ninh Thuan province is the worst affected of these provinces.
Topic:: Agriculture, Development, and Environment
Political Geography:: China, Asia, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Laos, and Myanmar

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