Kien Giang Province, Vietnam’s largest rice-growing area in the Mekong Delta, is preparing for the adverse weather conditions brought on by El Nino.
The region is expected to experience drought or saltwater intrusion under the anticipated weather phenomenon.
The province has built or upgraded 40 temporary dams to provide irrigation water for 281,000 hectares of winter-spring rice and household use and prevent saltwater intrusion.
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Building a Learning Alliance for Living Labs in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta
A collaboration between the CGIAR Initiatives on Asian Mega-Deltas (AMD) and Low-Emission Food Systems (Mitigate+), a Learning Alliance for Living Labs workshop was organized by IRRI in Can Tho City, Vietnam to form a network of diverse stakeholders within the region, that has an interest to address climate-related issues in the Mekong Delta.
Vietnam expands CS-MAP program after successful implementation in Mekong Delta
The Winter-Spring rice crop of 2019-2020 was a successful harvest in the Mekong River Delta, Vietnam despite the most severe salinity intrusion in history. The salt-water intrusion period in 2020 started almost 3 months earlier and lasted longer compared with the previous years’ averages*; the salinity levels constantly remained at high levels from February to May, threatening rice production. Nevertheless, provinces in the region managed to win big – the result of a set of adaptive measures, particularly the shift in cropping structure and sowing and harvesting calendars, guided by the implementation of the Climate-Smart Mapping and Adaptation Planning (CS-MAP) approach.
Vietnam adopts pre-emptive measures in the Mekong River Delta against El Niño
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