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Tuan Vo Van

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PhD Researcher

WISDOM Project

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Background

Tuan Vo Van studied Economics at Can Tho University, Vietnam, and also Rural Development with a specialization in “Livelihoods and natural Resource Management”, organized by the Swedish University of Agricultural Science. His main foci were on micro-finance, livelihoods and vulnerability assessment. Tuan is working as a researcher at the Department of Socio-Economics and Policy, Mekong Delta Development Research Institute, Can Tho University, Vietnam.

Working Area at UNU-EHS

Tuan is PhD researcher at UNU-EHS and at the University of Bonn. He is working on the German-Vietnamese WISDOM project (Water Related Information Management System for the Mekong Delta). His PhD thesis title is “Vulnerability Assessment to Floods in the Mekong Delta – The Case Study of Dong Thap Province” .

Publications (Selection)

  • Ranjula Bali Swain; Nguyen Van Sanh; Vo Van Tuan (2008): Microfinance and poverty reduction in the Mekong Delta in Vietnam. In: African and Asian Studies 7 (2008), pp. 191 – 215.
  • Vo Van Tuan; Le Canh Dung; Nguyen Van Sanh; Duong Ngoc Thanh (2008): Livelihoods of landless rural households in the down stream flooding area in the Mekong Delta. In: Sustainable Rural Development: Land Policies Rural Development. Agricultural Publishing House, Ha Noi.
  • Ryuichi Yamada; Vo Van Tuan; Vo Van Ha (2002): Farmers’ perception on on-farm trial technologies in the Mekong Delta. In: Development of New Technologies and Their Practice for Sustainable Farming Systems in the Mekong Delta. JIRCAS Working Report No. 26.