Mekong Institute, supported by the New Zealand Aid Programme, is going to organize Communicating Food Safety: Regional Media Training Program on Food Safety Reporting in CLMV on August 6–10 at Mekong Institute in Khon Kaen, Thailand. Full scholarships will be provided to about 20 media/communication professionals of Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, and Vietnam. At present, …

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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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A localized training on Good Hygiene Practices (GHP), held last November 17, 2017 in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, placed emphasis on proper handling, preparation and storage of food as fundamental to food safety.  Organized by Mekong Institute in partnership with the Food Safety Bureau, Department of Drug and Food (DFF) of the Cambodia Ministry of Health …

MI, MOH TRAINING EMPHASIZES FOOD HANDLING AS FUNDAMENTAL TO FOOD SAFETY Read More »

Ms. Maria Theresa Medialdia, Director of the Agricultural Development and Commercialization (ADC) Department and Dr. Jun Acedo, ADC Senior Program Specialist, joined the 3rd Annual Meeting of the Mekong Extension Learning Alliance (MELA) on October 30 – November 1, 2017 in Siem Reap, Cambodia.  Ms. Medialdia, representing Mekong Institute in MELA’s Coordinating Committee, served as …

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Following the success of the first round of National Knowledge Sharing Forums on Food Safety in Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, and Vietnam (CLMV) in June this year, Mekong Institute delivered a second national food safety forum in Hanoi, Vietnam. Held on November 2, 2017, the Forum attracted the participation of 26 Vietnamese alumni who attended …

MI HOLDS SECOND NATIONAL FOOD SAFETY FORUM IN VIETNAM Read More »

Mekong Institute (MI), together with the Cambodia Import-Export Inspection and Fraud Repression Directorate General (CAMCONTROL), has successfully delivered a training-workshop on Food Safety Risk Analysis and Agri-food Inspection and Audit at the CAMCONTROL Headquarters, Phnom Penh, Cambodia on October 17, 2017.  Sixty-two food inspectors from 25 provincial and municipal CAMCONTROL branches participated in the training-workshop, …

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Mekong Institute’s (MI) efforts to promote food safety continue with the recently-concluded Symposium on Global Food Safety: Production, Health and Market. Co-sponsored with the University of Georgia (UGA) and Khon Kaen University (KKU), 142 participants from the academe, government agencies and private sector from more than ten countries from Africa, East Asia, South East Asia, …

MI HOSTS SYMPOSIUM ON GLOBAL FOOD SAFETY: PRODUCTION, HEALTH AND MARKET Read More »

Mekong Institute (MI), in collaboration with Khon Kaen University (KKU) and the University of Georgia (UGA), is organizing a symposium on “Global Food Safety: Production, Health and Market” on October 5-6, 2017. The event will be held at MI’s residential training center in Khon Kaen, Thailand.  Over 100 participants are expected, coming mostly from the …

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Officials from the Plant Protection Center (PPC) under the Lao PDR’s Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry organized localized trainings on the safe use of agrichemicals last September 28-29, 2017. Held in Vientiane Province, the trainings were part of the action plans developed from the New Zealand Aid Programme-funded “Regional Training Program on Assuring Food Safety …

LAO FARMERS LEARN SAFE AGRICHEMICAL USE FROM MI ALUMNI Read More »

Thirty-two science communicators and media professionals from Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, and Vietnam (CLMV) are currently attending the regional media training course on food safety reporting, which was launched today, August 28, and will run until September 1.  Organized under the Mekong Institute-Food Safety Project (MI-FSP), the course targets to strengthen the participants’ awareness and …

CLMV SCIENCE REPORTERS JOIN MI MEDIA TRAINING ON COMMUNICATING FOOD SAFETY Read More »