ENVIRONMENT / Short Doc & Story

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A Mekong island too tiny for industrial farming now points to Vietnam’s future

GRP Fellow Sonal Gupta reports on how the small Vietnamese island of Con Chim could be a model for more sustainable agriculture and tourism.

Produced in partnership with the Global Reporting Program, with additional reporting support from Kathryn Gretsinger, Giang Pham, Sen Nguyen, Dung Le, JJ Mazzucotelli, and Hafsa Maqsood.

A resident scoops a writhing fish net out of the river with the day’s catch.
Photo: Sonal Gupta/Mongabay

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