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  • “Disaster for us and the planet": how the IFC is quietly funding a coal boom

    An analysis paper on how the World Bank's International Finance Corporation has invested significantly in coal globally despite a stated ban on such activities. Written by Dusti...

  • Owning the outcomes: Time to make the World Bank Group’s financial intermediary investments more accountable

    A briefing paper written by Natalie Bugalski from Inclusive Development International in collaboration with Oxfam International, on the lack of accountability around the World B...

  • Trying to follow the Money: Possibilities and limits of investor transparency in Southeast Asia’s rush for “available” land

    This study uses publicly available financial and spatial data to examine the geography of land-intensive investment in Southeast Asia, and to identify the limits imposed by pro...

  • Land Rights Matter! Anchors to Reduce Land Grabbing, Dispossession and Displacement

    A comparative study of land rights systems in Southeast Asia and the potential of national and international legal frameworks and guidelines.

  • An overview of large scale investments in the Mekong

    This paper presents an overview of large scale investments trends in the Mekong region, the regulatory and policy changes designed to facilitate large-scale foreign and domestic...

  • GMS database of large urban areas, 1950-2050 population estimates

    This database represents the historic, current and future estimates and projections with number of inhabitants for the world's largest urban areas from 1950-2050. The data cover...

  • Global Food Security Product

    The Global Food Security­ support Analysis Data Product provides spatial distribution of a disaggregated five class global cropland extent map derived at nominal 1­km based on f...

  • Erosion Risk

    This dataset shows the risk of erosion around within the Greater Mekong Region, from low to high. Erosion and sedimentation by water involves the process of detachment, transpor...

  • Total precipitation monthly

    The Monthly Summaries of Global Historical Climatology Network (GHCN)-Daily is a dataset derived from GHCN-Daily. The data are produced by computing simple averages or monthly a...

  • The 2003 agricultural census (Thailand)

    A report on Thailand’s 2003 Agricultural Census. The report outlines the census aims, methodology and summarises the findings. Graphs are provided on number of agricultural hold...

  • Basic statistics 2015 (indicators of the Millennium Development Goals)

    Basic Statistics 2015 covers the indicators of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) such as the proportion of population living below $1.25 (PPP) a day, infant mortality rate...

  • Vietnamese scientist’s passion contributes to marine biodiversity in Mekong delta

    A brief about Vietnamese scientist Dr. Dang Thuy Binh and her research on marine biodiversity in the Mekong Delta. This brief introduces Ms Binh’s challenges as a woman pursuing...

  • Aquaculture in transition: value chain transformation, fish and food security in Myanmar

    A research reports authored by Ben Belton, Aung Hein, Kyan Htoo , L. Seng Kham, Ulrike Nischan, Thomas Reardon , Duncan Boughton, on Aquaculture in transition: value chain trans...

  • Opportunities, risks and growing inequality: The Charoen Pokphand Group and maize smallholder production in Shan State, Myanmar

    A case study commissioned and published by Land Core Group and conducted by Kevin Woods on the risks, opportunities and inequalities presented by contract farming and industrial...

  • Agreement on the cooperation for the sustainable development of the Mekong River Basin 5 April 1995

    An agreement by the country members of Mekong River Commission on the cooperation for the sustainable development of Mekong River Basin agreed by the MRC members done in Chiang ...

  • Mekong River Commission Strategic Plan 2016-2020

    The Mekong River Commission (MRC)'s strategic plan 2016-2020, published by the MRC in Cambodia, March 2016.

  • Integrated water resources management-based basin development strategy 2016-2020 for the Lower Mekong Basin

    A report jointly updated by country members of Mekong River Commission (MRC) on integrated water resources management-based basin development strategy 2016-2020 for the Lower Me...

  • Vegetation Health Index

    The satellite-based global VH System is designed to monitor, diagnose and predict long- and short-term land environmental conditions and climate-dependent socioeconomic activiti...

  • Impacts of climate change and development on Mekong flow regimes: First assessment – 2009

    A research paper on the impacts of climate change and development on Mekong River flow regimes, published in 2011 by Mekong River Commission. Edited by Robin Taylor and Hanne Ba...

  • Groundwater for irrigation in Cambodia

    A discussion paper by Robyn Johnston, Michael Roberts, Thuon Try and Sanjiv de Silva on groundwater for irrigation in Cambodia, published by International Water Management Insti...