DUPC’s final webinar on “Hydrological complexity and agricultural transformation in the Vietnamese Mekong delta”

On 27^th January 2022, the Institute for Circular Economy Development (ICED) has collaborated with the Center of Water Management and Climate Change (WACC) to organize the final webinar in the framework of the DUPC project (“Flood–based farming systems for enhancing livelihood resilience in the floodplain of upper Mekong delta”). More than 20 participants and speakers (both Vietnamese and international researchers) have participated in the webinar organized online via Teams.

During the webinar, eight speakers involved in different work packages have presented their work on the field of socio-hydrological systems in the floodplain, the resilience of farming systems, adaptive flood-based models, and a theoretical framework to assess different adaptation pathways. After the presentations, participants in the workshop have been actively involved in the discussion, sharing ideas on the economic values of flood-based crops compared to rice, payment for ecosystem services provided by the floodplain, costs and benefits of different water management practices and rice intensification, and the value chain and business models to promote floated rice production, etc. The webinar is a good platform for the research partners in the DUPC2 project to share their research findings and explore collaboration and future research directions.