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CLUES Project – First Annual Project Review and Planning Workshop

On March 20^th 2013, the workshop on “Climate change and affecting land use in the Mekong Delta: Adaptation of rice-based cropping systems” (CLUES) was held at the hall of College of Aquaculture and Fisheries of Can Tho University (CTU). It was purposeful to review the activities of the CLUES project after one year of operation and plan the incoming activities.

The workshop on “Climate change and affecting land use in the Mekong Delta: Adaptation of rice-based cropping systems” (CLUES)

Participants were the CLUES Organization Board, including Prof. Dr. Le Quang Tri, Vice Rector of CTU – National Project Director; Dr. Reiner Wassmann – IRRI Project Leader; Dr. Nguyen Hieu Trung, Dean of College of Environment and Natural Resources – National Project Coordinator; Dr. Ngo Dang Phong, Post-doctoral Research Fellow – IRRI Project Facilitator; along with leaders and staffs of 6 themes of the project. It was honorable to welcome the visit of A/Prof.Dr. Ha Thanh Toan – Rector of CTU and Dr. Gamini Keerthisinghe – Principal Regional Coordinator of Mekong Countries and China, representative of ACIAR, to the CLUES workshop. Also, the workshop welcomed other individuals and organizations who are interested in the project activities.

A/Prof.Dr. Ha Thanh Toan – Rector of CTU stated at the workshop

The CLUES project is funded by the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR), operated in February 2011, lasting 4 years (from March 2011 to February 2014). The overall aim of the project is to improve the adaptive capacity of rice-based cultivating systems for effectively managing impacts associated with climate change, firstly prioritizing in providing the technical support and knowledge to farmers and local authorities to assure the food safety in the Mekong Delta.