This week: Mekong Forum on Water, Food and Energy

This week, the CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food will convene the second annual Mekong Forum on Water, Food and Energy. Building on last year’s event, the forum will continuing a constructive dialogue on the relationship between the cost and benefits of water development. In particular, it will focus on technical and institutional innovations that can make hydropower more sustainable and also ensure that benefits are equitably shared.

Learn more about the Second Mekong Forum on Water, Food and Energy: read the Forum announcement. Check back here for coverage of the event, or follow the stories live on Twitter with #MHF2012.

Mekong Forum stories:

• Rebutting Extremism: A Comment on the Debate Surrounding Xayaburi Dam
• In Search of the Good Dam
• Water Wars Over Mekong Dams an Unlikely Future