Making the Mekong Connected

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Project Title: Making the Mekong Connected

• Funding: BMZ/GIZ/ICRAF

• Duration: 2009-2012

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• Coordination: Prof. Dr. Christoph Kleinn

• Project researcher: Philip Beckschäfer

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Background

• The Upper Mekong Region (south China, north Laos and Thailand, east Myanmar) is an ecologically important andvital region for the lower Mekong countries.
• Smallholder farmers, including many indigenous ethniccommunities play an important role in protecting forests,landscapes, and watersheds. They maintain biodiversity through traditional land-use practices.
• Problem: Secondary forests with rich biodiversity continue to be replaced by fruit tree and rubber plantations and, more recently, with Jatropha.