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Viet Nam is currently facing its worst drought in 90 years, leaving 1 million people in the Southern Mekong Delta, South Central and Central Highlands regions suffering from food insecurity and requiring humanitarian assistance.

A total of 477 113 hectares of...

Chamale Cup and his family would normally be busy at this time of the year preparing land to plant once the first rains arrive in Ninh Thuan province, already one of Viet Nam’s most impoverished. 

Instead, Viet Nam’s most severe drought...

Ha Noi, Viet Nam. A four-day national training workshop on capacity development in carbon balance appraisal of projects and policies started today in Ha Noi by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and World Bank, with a wide range of...

Scott Newman, FAO Viet Nam’s former Senior Technical Coordinator of the Emergency Centre for Transboundary Animal Diseases (ECTAD), received a “Medal for the Agriculture and Rural Development Cause” from the Department of Livestock Production within the Ministry of Agriculture and...

In 2004, Viet Nam poultry and human were heavily impacted by the highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1 outbreaks, causing more than 60 human deaths and $45 million dollars of economic loss from dead poultries at its peak moment. In...