The project “Establishing sustainable Pangasius value chain in Vietnam” is set to be launched in August and implemented in four years from 2013 to 2017 with a total budget of EUR 2.37 million, or an equivalent of more than VND 64 billion. According to the General Department of Fisheries, the Vietnamese pangasius industry has dramatically […]
MORE than a million square miles of Arctic seas have frozen in the past year as a new environmental trend takes hold, dubbed “global cooling”. A polar bear with two cubs, which were thought to be at risk from melting sea ice [GETTY] The extraordinary “reverse” of global warming has led to a 60 per […]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTEai3GGuqM Joint programme entitled ‘Green Production and Trade to Increase Income and Employment Opportunities for the Rural Poor’ in Vietnam. The programme’s approach is to develop better integrated, pro-poor, and environmentally sustainable “green” value chains, enabling poor growers, collectors and producers to improve their products and link them to more profitable markets. The complex challenges […]
CONSERV, or Conservation of Environmental Resources in Vietnam is a PPP Capacity Building Project initiated by PUMA for all of its suppliers in Vietnam. It is co-financed by the German Bank DEG-KFW and managed in cooperation with ASSIST , an NGO operating in Asia. CONSERV applies the concept and methodology of UNIDO’s Resource Efficiency and […]
Leapfrog Project is an eco-design sustainability project led by Dassault Systemes to support SPIN (Sustainable Product Innovation) project by UNEP (United Nations Environment Programme), Delft University and VNCPC (Vietnam Cleaner Production Centre). Launched in Ha Noi – Sept 14, 2012
Pangasius are indigenous to the Mekong Delta in Vietnam. They grow fast; their flesh is white and firm. They don’t have many bones, can be easily fileted and — even halfway round the world in Europe — they are cheap. The prime foreign market used to be the United States. But then an import levy […]
