Twenty fresh vegetable producers from Lam Ha and Duc Trong District in Vietnam’s Lam Dong province joined the localized training on food safety and Vietnamese Good Agricultural Practices (VietGAP) on May 23, 2019. The training is part of the action plan implementation of Vietnamese participants under the New Zealand Aid Programme-supported PROSAFE Project.   Drawing on …

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Mekong Institute, supported by the New Zealand Aid Programme, is organizing the Regional Media Training Program on Communicating Food Safety from July 29–August 2, 2019 at Mekong Institute in Khon Kaen, Thailand. Full scholarships will be provided to about 20 media/communication professionals from Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, and Vietnam.   This five-day training program will allow …

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“Ensuring hygiene in food cuts across the complex chain of production, processing till consumption,” Mr. Sudam Pawar, Director of MI’s Innovation and Technological Connectivity Department, remarks today as he welcomes participants in the five-day regional training program on Food Hygiene and Sanitation for Food Handlers. “You have a great responsibility to ensure that actors along …

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Senior government officials from Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, and Vietnam (CLMV) recently visited New Zealand from April 29–May 3 to learn about NZ best practices in managing food safety in fresh horticultural value chains.   As part of Mekong Institute’s Promoting Safe Food for Everyone (PROSAFE) Project, the one-week structured learning visit brought together senior officials …

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May 2, 2019 — Water resource experts and key stakeholders from government agencies join today’s national consultation as part of Mekong Institute’s project on Transboundary Cooperation Mechanism on Adaptation to Climate Change and Hydropower Development Projects, an initiative supported by the Mekong-Lancang Cooperation Special Fund.   Organized in Bangkok and in collaboration with the Office of …

CONSULTATION MEETING MOVES FORWARD COOPERATION MECHANISM ON WATER RESOURCE MANAGEMENT IN MEKONG RIVER BASIN Read More »

“The Lancang-Mekong Cooperation is one of China’s most formidable foreign policy strategies in recent history. What [LMC] has achieved in the last 1,092 days is remarkable.” This was how Mr. Kavi Chongkittavorn, Senior Fellow at Chulalongkorn University’s Institute of Security and International Studies, summed up his presentation at a forum co-organized by Mekong Institute (MI) …

MI FORUM HIGHLIGHTS LANCANG-MEKONG COOPERATION’S ROLE IN FUELING REGIONAL SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT Read More »

Ms. Maria Theresa Medialdia, Director of MI’s Agricultural Development and Commercialization (ADC) Department, and Ms. Ratna Devi Nadarajan, ADC Program Specialist, visited national agencies in P.R. China on March 6-7, 2019 as part of the project on “Transboundary Cooperation Mechanism on Adaptation to Climate Change and Hydropower Development Project.” The team met with experts from …

SCOPING VISIT A STEP FORWARD IN BUILDING TRANSBOUNDARY COOPERATION MECHANISM IN WATER RESOURCE MANAGEMENT Read More »

A total of 20 food safety trainers from Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, and Vietnam (CLMV) are attending Mekong Institute’s Regional Training of Trainers on Food Safety Promotion this week from March 11–15 at the MI Residential Training Center in Khon Kaen. An integral part of the Promoting Food Safety for Everyone (PROSAFE) Project, the one-week …

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Mekong Institute (MI) will be organizing a series of safe food courses this year as part of the New Zealand Aid Programme-funded Food Safety Project. These regional training programs comprise a major component of the five-year food safety project to be implemented in Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, and Vietnam (CLMV). The Project primarily seeks to …

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“Proper postharvest handling is important in minimizing contamination, preventing food loss and extending the shelf life of fruits and vegetables, and this is also closely linked to the wellbeing of farmers,” Dr. Watcharas Leelawath, MI Executive Director shares as he opens today’s regional training program on Postharvest Safe Food Handling at the MI Residential Training …

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