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Technical Leaflet: Compost Fertilizer Recipe

This compost acts as a superfood for your garden, building rich, living soil that supports healthy plant growth. It gradually releases essential nutrients, improves soil structure for easier root development, and retains moisture reducing the need for frequent watering. Compost also introduces beneficial microbes that can help protect plants from disease and enhance nutrient uptake, resulting in stronger and more resilient plants.

Bio-Pesticides: Why and How to Produce It – The Yone Village Example

This video explains how and why to produce bio-pesticides at home, using Yone Village, Paek District, Xiengkhouang Province, Lao PDR as an example. It highlights the important interactions between insects and plants in agricultural ecosystems, such as pollination. When these interactions are disturbed, plant-eating insects can become pests.
Bio-pesticides offer a sustainable, natural way to repel pests without exterminating them, unlike chemical pesticides. The video details the ingredients needed, a step-by-step recipe, and instructions on how to use bio-pesticides effectively.

Natural Pesticide Recipes

This leaflet presents simple, biodegradable pesticide recipes made from plants such as lemongrass, galangal, turmeric, chili, garlic, and tobacco, used to control insects, fungi, and other crop pests. It explains how to prepare, dilute, and apply each formula, with guidance on safe handling, storage, and spraying for effective, low-cost pest management in vegetable farming.

The Pioneering Woman Farmer Practicing Agroecology

Meet Ms. Doan Thi Phuong from Hai Xuan Commune, Hai Hau District, Nam Dinh Province — a passionate pioneer on the journey of “returning to nature.” With courage and determination, she gave up harmful chemicals and embraced sustainable farming methods rooted in agroecology. Her commitment not only transformed her own land but also inspired her community, fostering trust in safe, nature-friendly agriculture. Her story is a powerful example of resilience and leadership, encouraging others to cultivate a healthier, more sustainable future.
This video is part of the project “Strengthening Community Capacity in Monitoring Pesticide Use and Promoting Agroecology – for a Non-Toxic Environment,” supported by the ALiSEA Small Grant Facility 2022.
Implemented by the Research Centre for Gender, Family and Environment in Development (CGFED), in collaboration with the Pesticide Action Network Asia and the Pacific (PAN-AP) and the Women’s Union of Hai Hau District, Nam Dinh Province.

Growing seedlings in Ha Nam Province, Viet Nam

An technical guide explaining step by step nursery practices for cultivating healthy seedlings.

Use and impacts of pesticide in Hai Hau district, Nam Dinh province

his research brief present the results of a survey aiming at documenting the use and impacts of hazardous pesticides among farmers. This survey employed the Community-Based Pesticide
Action Monitoring (CPAM) methodology developed by the Pesticide Action Network Asia Pacific (PAN AP)