Relating to this framework, Y-Farm Network bases on our members in order to share relevant topics on each dimension:
The Organisers/Participants
Organisers
Ly Quoc Dang
Researcher/Coordinator of Y- Farm
Quoc Dang is Khmer Citizen in Soc Trang of the Mekong Delta. Recently, he is a researcher in Can Tho University, a PhD candidate in Chiang Mai University. He has published some academic papers on the field of eco- tourism, gender and water management, disaster risk reduction, and youth development. He has established Mekong Youth Farm Network (Y-Farm) for youth development on sustainable farming education across Mekong community. Dang have participated many national and international training courses as well as organised many activities for Mekong and America Youth in the Mekong Delta to learn about climate change, water, wildlife conservation, eco-tourism, urban issues, and sustainable agriculture.
Truong Hong Suong
Vietnam Y-Farm Management
Suong used to work in agricultural tourism project of the An Giang Farmer’s Union that she supported the local people develop their skills in tourism and work with farmers in the wetland forest. Suong got bachelor degree in Agriculture Economy in Can Tho University and some international leadership training programs such as Mekong School, Academic YSEALI in the U.S in 2017, Farm School in Bangkok. She award JWH Initiative- A young leadership grant in the Netherlands. She is co-founder of Delta Youth Alliance, Y-Farm Management in Vietnam. She has organised many great activities for Mekong and American Youth to learn about sustainable agriculture, environmental protection, eco-tourism, wildlife conservation, and culture.
Le Thanh Tung
Y-Farm Marketing and Communication
Tung takes the responsibility for marketing management for Y- Farm, He is working on the Adtado DigitalHub – Digital Marketing Agency. He has good skill to do digital marketing so he will help as Y Farm Project Manager Media & Digital.
Tran Anh Duy
Y-Farm Assistant, Vietnam
Duy was graduated from Can Tho University with the bachelor degree of Accountant. He joins and works with Y-Farm from 2017, Duy has good experience on financial issues as he used to work few projects for Mekong Y-Farm in Vietnam. Duy has awarded the JWH Initiative- a young leadership grant in the Netherlands.
Participants
Erik Mulder
Expert/Enthusiast The U.S.A
Mr. Erik Mulder lives in the San Francisco Bay Area in California, United States. Working in high-tech requires many trips to Asia, which allowed him to experience the beauty of nature and cultural richness of the Asian countries, and make friends along the way. He is an environmentalist, a promotor of sustainable living, and ecotourist. His passion is exploring ASEAN member countries by bicycle, and doing volunteer work to give back to the people. Being from the Netherlands and a frequent traveler has earned him the nickname the Flying Dutchman.
Tanya Promburom
PhD Candidate/Researcher
Tanya has 15 years’ experiences for doing research on ecotourism, handicraft marketing under the Royal Project, natural resource management, agri-business, and women entrepreneurship. She has worked with the Multiple Cropping Center has experienced to work with farmers, agricultural office and farmer group, multiple NGOs projects, government and Non government organizations as facilitator committee, consultant, speaker.
Namthipkesone Bouttasing
Green Community Volunteers, Lao PDR
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Yem Panha
Freelancer/Farmer Battambang Organic Library and Garden
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Nguyen Huynh Ngoc Nhu
Student Chu Van An High School
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Phan Thi Xuan Dieu
Researcher Ho Chi Minh City
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Thiri Tun
Communication Specialist Winrock International
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Thitinan Wanna
Farmer/Activist Raitong Organic Farm
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Jaruwan Supolrai
Activist/Trainer/Filmmaker Mekong Nomad Farm
Netting is a Founder of Mekong Nomad Farm in Ubon Ratchathani in Thailand. She has over ten years of experience to work on youth development and sustainable farming in the Mekong. She has organized many youth exchanges for youth in Mekong Community and including farm volunteer programs for youth from Southeast Asia and USA, training courses for children and students in her communities. Netting is one of key persons in Mekong Youth Journey, ASEAN Youth Forum, Mekong Youth Farm Network, Isaan Y-Farm Network. She used to talk her Mekong Journey on TEDxBangkok 2016
Anocha Parameesak
Practitioner/Farmer/Activist Sukjai Organic Farm, Lamphun, Thailand
Thach Ha My
Junior Student/Intern at Y- Farm Foreign Trade University
Ha My is a Khmer girl in Thanh Tri Community of Soc Trang Province, the Mekong Delta and she is now a student in one of the best universities in Ho Chi Minh City of Vietnam, the Foreign Trade University. During high school students in her community, she participated in different social activities. For example, she used to present and discuss Bat issues to University of Montana students, he joined the Youth Engagement Activities that learned about sustainable farming in Dong Thap Province. She will participate in the 2nd Y- Farm Camp 2019 in Vietnam, which will gather more 28 youth in Lower Mekong Basin and America in order to learn about how youth in the Mekong engage in sustainable agriculture and environmental protection in the context of climate change and development. She majors in international business and she is interested in working on marking and communication, so she applies to be Mekong Y-Farm’s Marketing and Communication Intern Position recently.
Pham Thi Hong Van
Environmental Journalist Tuoi Tre Newspaper
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Thi Su
Saler/Farmer Can Tho City
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Kithong Inthavong
Farmer, Vientiane, Laos
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Zin Nwe Htun
Senior Student Technological University Kyaukse
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Theint Theint Swe
Senior Student Yezin Agricultural University
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Naung Naung
Business Sector/Internship ENDA Myanmar
Bunmi Charikhruea
Activist/Farmer Isaan Y-FarmNetwork
He was born in Ubon Ratchathani and he got bachelor degree in Crop Production in Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University. He decided to return home after working in Bangkok around 10 years to help his family to do farming which is organic farming system for his family consumption. He had joined Isaan Y-Farm Network 2017 which is supported by Y-Farm Network and he continues to focus on organic farming activities with other youth so far. He is one of youth who passionate about organic seed production as he believes that seed saving can help to reduce production costs for farmers and also to save heirlooms in the community. And his farm is now being developed as an organic seed bank for the community, which is co-creation project with Isaan Y-Farm Network.
Karatchanok Hutapaed (Fai)
Trainer/Owner Grandpa Urban Farming
Zack Aphivong
Saler/ Farmer Thaan Fun Organic Farm
After graduated university in Chiangmai of Thailand, Zack returned to his home country to volunteer with different NGOs. One of the groups that Zack volunteered for was Mekong Peace Journey in 2011 to get to learn and understand more about his country from young peop perspectives as well as people in neighboring countries. The best way to do this is to go back to his home village in rural area of Laos. In 2014 Zack moved back to his home village to volunteer at local primary school to teach English and work at his parents’ farm. Two years later, he started his own farm “Thaan fun organic farm” to be a place for local youths to learn about agriculture. In 2017, he started a women working group to produce personal and home care products from plants and fruits that they grow in their gardens to use at home and sell its surplu for people in city to reduce household expenses and generate incomes for family and support their children to go to school. His future goal is to include and involve more villagers and communities to make their living friendly with environment as well as to be able to generate incomes for families.
Khem Davon
Business Sector and Farmer in Takeo, Cambodia
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Nguyen Hoang Nghiem
Junior Student/Volunteer Nam Can Tho University/Volunteer
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Pham Thi Phuong Anh
Senior Student, Can Tho University
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Le Thi Thu Thuy
Co-Founder, Delta Youth Alliance
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Khem Davon
Business Sector and Farmer in Takeo, Cambodia
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Myo Min Latt
Photographer/Filmmakers/Tr ainer Mong Pan Youth Group, Shan State, Myanmar
The Presenters/Speakers
Topics and Lessons
Timelines
Submitting application form: Aug 25th- Sept 24th, 2019
Reviewing the applicants: Sept 25th- Oct 10th, 2019
Notifying the successful candidates from application form: Oct 11st- 15th, 2019
The 2nd Y-Farm Camp: Dec 15th-19th, 2019
Note: Y-Farm will arrange transportation for participants from Ho Chi Minh City, Can Tho City to Sa Dec City on Dec 15th, 2019 and on Dec 20th, 2019 from Can Tho City to Ho Chi Minh City.
Schedule
The Schedule of 2nd Y-Farm Camp
Y-Farm Biking Tour
The Y-Farm’s Grants
Please note that Y-Farm encourages anyone who can contribute some budget for your travel from your home countries to Can Tho City, e.g. buses; train; and/or airfares. Normally, the scholarship covers air/bus/train tickets from your home countries to Can Tho City, meal for four days (16-19 of December), accommodation for 5 nights/shared room (15-19 of December), insurance for 6 days, local transportation, T- Shirt, and other tools/equipment during Y-Farm Camp including documents, photocopy,etc.
Eligible for Scholarships: Y-Farm is not strict on ages, English Skills, and professional experiences, etc. Y-Farm is very much encouraged someone who works on sustainable farming, real young farmers, youth engagement and volunteerism on development, etc. Or, someone who owns small scale of sustainable farming and passionate to work on this issue with other youth, community and children. We would love to offer someone who is real young farmers, youth and students who engage on agri-ecology issues in their communities and countries. The applicants from ethnicity/indigenous group in remote areas, women, and senior students, are encouraged to apply for the scholarships. If you cannot work well in English language on form, please ask someone to help or you can do it in your own languages, we appreciate that.
The total participants of this Y-Farm Camp will be around 25 people who come from different age, ethnicity, gender, background, location, field, etc. Actually, Y-Farm prefers someone who works on our related issues in order to build our knowledges on sustainable agriculture together. Y-Farm specifies number of participants each country: 04 for Lao PDR, 04 for Myanmar, 05 for Cambodia, 05 for Thailand, and 09 for Vietnam. Please note that Y-Farm does not accept two participants from each group/organisation/team (exception in very special cases).
In Myanmar, Y-Farm will accept your air tickets from Yangoon and Mandalay Cities. In Lao PDR, Y-Farm will accept your air tickets from Vientiane and Luang Phrabang Cities. In Thailand, Y-Farm will accept your tickets from Chiang Mai and Bangkok Cities. In Cambodia, Y-Farm will accept bus tickets from Phnom Penh City to Can Tho or Ho Chi Minh Cities. In Vietnam, Y-Farm will accept buses tickets around the Mekong Delta, Ho Chi Minh City and Highland of Vietnam. For applicants from Central and the North of Vietnam, the air tickets are accepted to travel to Can Tho or Ho Chi Minh City. You have to contribute your own fee (ticket and hotel) during traveling from your place to those
cities.
There is other scholarships (Travel Grant) which focus similar Y-Farm’s works: The SEARCA Travel Grant, Deadline September 7th, 2019 (more information: https://www.searca.org/travel-grants )
The Childsream Foundation (Email: [email protected] )
Or, you can search from google about Travel Grant for Workshop, Conference, Field Trip, etc. There are some places that provide funding for this kind of activity. The 2nd Y- Farm Camp will be pleasure to provide more detail and relevant documents if you need from our team.
Visited Farms, Hotels, Homestay, FarmStays, Communities and Cities
Tam Viet Farm is located in Thuong Hamlet, Thuong Thoi Tien, Hong Ngu District, Dong Thap Province, South West of the Mekong Delta, Vietnam. This location is very closed to Cambodia Border and to the Mekong River (Tien River). This farm is developed by local youth who is passionated to protect people health, Mr. Vo Van Tieng. He started his farm with 2 ha last 2017, the area is increased significantly to 40 ha this year 2019. Moreover, he and his team have been planning for another 70 ha in Long An
Province (the Mekong Delta). Most of product in his farm is rice, he would like to cultivate this agriculture system which is natural based that can control insect and use eco-fertilised by applying ducks, dogs, cows, and fish.
Each Op Farm is located in Long Xuyen City, An Giang Province. This farm applies the natural based farming system to the functions of producing and doing business different vegetable in the South of Vietnam; tourism; learning and education tour and training to the community. This farm is local initiative from Mr. Truong Thanh Dat, he is youth from another district in the province. The size of this farm is 12,000 square meters and he would love to extend in the future.
Mekong Nursery of Local Species is Youth Initiative that creates/builds by youth in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta, some youth are involved and we come from different backgrounds, locations, ages as well as academic fields. Most of us are interested in working with youth, local people and community development.
Mekong Nursery of Local Species is a non-profit community in Can Tho, Vietnam. They are researchers, students, and farmers, creating nature-inspired farming with our neighbours and environment. They bring professional farming and garden/farm design of various disciplines together with folk members for the goal of shared creative expression. The exchange of ideas enhances the enjoyment of public space for everyone, and contributes to a connection with nature in the urban environment. The nursery of local species size is around 1,200 square meters, we have done first phase that covers more than 12 bean species, 20 herbal plants, 10 veggies species, 4 species of fruits, and 15 species of flowers. Many species are no name, we still cant name due to limiting our knowledge and information. We have gathered more 50 youth and 12 local people to work and participate our space. Next phase, our team plans to set up models: solar power, rain water’s saving and re-using system, water treatment system, kid farm space, resting and education space.
This farmstay is located next to Mekong River (Hau or Bassac River) in Sa Dec City of Dong Thap Province. Ếch in Vietnamese means Frog and Hoa in Vietnamese means Flowers, this farmstay names in this location because the owner plants flowers and feeds frogs in their garden/farms. Number of thousand families plant flowers in their farms and this activity is main their livelihood for hundred years in the city. The villagers plants different kinds of flowers, especially tropical ones in Vietnam. His farmstay is nice place for everyone while you would like to visit the Mekong Delta in order to explore local people’s lives and local culture. Mr. Hung and Ms. Trang are owners, local youth in the community, they offer many local people to work on his farm and they try to set up alternative energy at his farm in order to contribute into climate change mitigation to our society.
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Can Tho City is located in the centre of the Mekong Delta, Southern Part of Vietnam. Many interesting areas in the city where the visitors should visit during staying including the Cai Rang Floating Market; Bang Lang’s Stork Garden; Fruit Orchage in Phong Dien District; Binh Thuy Old House; and some temples around the city. This city is setting up to become centre for education, economic, culture and political roles in the Mekong Delta.
Donors and Supports
The Samdhana Institute (Southeast Asia)
The Eastern Vision/ GLO Travel (Hong Kong)
Erik Mulder (California, USA)
If you would like to donate/support us, please contact us via [email protected] because we would like to support more local youth and young farmers through Mekong Communities to participate this event. You can make Western Union to us by following our accountant information: Tran Anh Duy (165/6, 30 Thang 4 Street, Ninh Kieu District, Can Tho City, Vietnam)
Contacts and Other Information
Ly Quoc Dang, Coordinator, email: [email protected]/ Phone: +84-971-597-251
Truong Hong Suong, Management, email: [email protected]/ Phone: +84-972-385-920
Le Thanh Tung, Media Support, Adtado Vietnam, email: [email protected]
Tran Anh Duy, Financial/Receipts/Travel/Insurance, email: [email protected]
General Inquiry and Information, email: [email protected]/ [email protected]