Can ecosystems in Bến Tre, a province of the Mekong Delta, Vietnam, provide a range of ecosystem services to local habitants? We surveyed people across a range of communes about their experiences of organic farming, beekeeping, and their knowledge of threats to pollination, a vital ecosystem service. Focussing on livelihood practices that improve pollination, we explored whether pollination has the capacity to make these socio-ecological systems more resilient in the face of climate change.

Running experiments in the field requires a flexible and adaptive approach. You do not always know what is going to happen when you arrive to a session. Hub researcher Irene Mussio provides 10 top tips for fieldwork based on her experiences of economic experiment fieldwork in Vietnam.

As part of the partnership between Can Tho University and Living Deltas, based at Newcastle University, a joint team have trained research and student assistants to run economic experiments in the Mekong River Delta.