Analysis
Fight deforestation and climate change by granting indigenous rights to forests: Report
12 Sep 2018
In Thailand, however, communities are being evicted from national parks under a law aimed at conserving forests.
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Analysis
In Search of Maritime Grand Strategy: Thailand’s fisheries policy under the military rule
20 Aug 2018
Despite no official record, some believed the number of kidnapped and unregistered workers could be up to 200,000.
As the world's single largest contributor of plastic waste into the marine environment, Mekong countries must provide leadership to restore health in our oceans.
Continued development of ASEAN economic integration is set to increase connectivity across the region. In the process facilitating greater legal and, unfortunately, illegal mobility.
Mekong River dams ‘will harm food security’
3 Apr 2018
MRC says Mekong River dams will cut GDP by US$28 billion, aggravate food insecurity and poverty, and reverse the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
What is the actual impact of an intensified development focus on rural women?
Analysis
Payments to protect forest carbon must increase to defend against rubber plantations
6 Mar 2018
Efforts to protect tropical forests in Southeast Asia for the carbon they store may fail because protection payments are too low
Pushing GMS food up the value chain
5 Jan 2018
Conditions are ripe GMS to embrace sustainable agriculture and become a source of environmentally friendly produce.
Investing in nature is not a waste of money or a drain on profit margins. On the contrary, such investments are just as important as the concrete and steel needed to build dams and reservoirs.
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