Agriculture & Food Safety
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'Thai Rice NAMA' brings low-carbon farming technologies to rice growers in Suphan Buri
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- Four key techniques that Thai Rice NAMA Project encourages small farmers to pick up are land-levelling, alternate wetting and drying, site-specific nutrient management and straw and stubble management.
- Besides Suphan Buri, the Thai Rice NAMA Project covers areas in five other provinces, namely Chai Nat, Ang Thong, Pathum Thani, Sing Buri and Ayutthaya that are all in irrigated zones.
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Thai Rice NAMA (Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Action)
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Thai rice researchers track greenhouse gases from rice fields
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- Researchers in Chainat, Angthong, Pathum Thani, Sing Buri, Ayutthaya and Suphan Buri provinces are trained to analyse and collect greenhouse gas data in rice paddy fields.
- The collected data will be used to further study, measure efficiency and plan future agricultural techniques and activities.
- A gas chromatograph is used to analyse gas emissions and will be the topic of the next training session.
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Thai-German Climate Programme - Agriculture
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What the future holds for rice in the Chaopraya river basin in this era of climate change
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- The Chaopraya river basin may experience heavy rainfall, more intense storms and higher temperatures in the future.
- The adaptation options include the reduction of rice farming areas and planting frequency, alternating of higher-value rice varieties, mixed crop farming and development of small-scale irrigation systems.
- Inputs from local government and local farmers will be considered for the formulation of a long-term plan in order to be able to better cope with the risks.
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Risk-based National Adaptation Plan
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Thailand Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Action (RAC NAMA)
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Waste & Natural Resources Management
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Proliferation of Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP) in Asia - the Next 5 Countries (SCP Outreach)
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Advancing and Measuring Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP) for a Low-Carbon Economy in Middle-Income and Newly Industrialized Countries (Advance SCP)
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Good Governance & Vocational Training
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9 ASEAN countries and Timor Leste notch up innovative teaching and learning methods for Industry 4.0
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- The first training of multipliers helped participants think and do by themselves with provided guidance.
- After the training, the multipliers will adapt and tailor the knowledge and skills to suit their own countries' context.
- Other modules will cover Curriculum Design for Industry 4.0 Work Process, Quality Assurance in Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) Institutions and Partnering with Industry and TVET Institutions this year.
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Regional Cooperation Programme to Improve the Quality and Labour Market Orientation of Technical and Vocational Education and Training (RECOTVET)
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Improving Occupational Safety for Healthcare Workers in Public Hospitals in Thailand
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Plastic Crisis: Time to reduce - stop your use of single use plastics!
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- Plastic takes 450-1,000 years to fully break down and disappear from the earth while the average time that a plastic bag is used is 12 minutes.
- Plastic will contribute greenhouse gases in the equivalent of 850 million tons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere in 2019.
- Apart from Germany's five-point plan to reduce the nation's plastic waste, it also makes international aids to limit plastic waste in the oceans including through projects in Thailand.
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UPCOMING TRAINING COURSES
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