Cuu Long Delta Rice Research Institute Grant



Organization - Cuu Long Delta Rice Research Institute
Grant Amount - $200,000
Foundation - Rockefeller Foundation
Grant Purpose - toward a collaborative effort among institutes in Cambodia, Lao PDR and Vietnam to transfer and apply new technologies to the development of crop varieties and to the improvement of farming practices that suit the specific ecological environment of upland areas in the Greater Mekong Sub-region


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World Agroforestry Centre - $310,000 from the Rockefeller Foundation - for the costs of its research project on upland sustainable productivity in the Greater Mekong Sub-region through analysis of the physical, social, economic and policy environments prevailing in Lao PDR, Thailand, Vietnam and Yunnan Province, China

Silpakorn University - $300,000 from the Rockefeller Foundation - in final support of activities being undertaken by its Faculty of Painting, Sculpture and Graphic Arts to collaborate with partner institutions in Cambodia, Lao PDR, and Vietnam to build the capacity of arts education institutions in the Greater...

Cambodia Development Resource Institute - $450,000 from the Rockefeller Foundation - in support of a project to enhance the study of emerging regional trends in the Greater Mekong Sub-region through research collaboration among institutions in Cambodia, Lao PDR, Thailand, Vietnam and Yunnan Province, China

Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, Lao PDR - $45,000 from the Rockefeller Foundation - to enhance agricultural productivity of upland farmers in central Lao PDR through a combination of community seed multiplication and integrated crop management interventions already employed successfully in northern Thailand and other parts of Lao...

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