Mekong Delta Development Research Institute

Mekong Delta Development Research Institute
Viện Nghiên cứu Phát triển đồng bằng sông Cửu Long
Former names	Mekong Delta Development and Research Institute
Established	1976
Director	Dang Kieu Nhan
Location	Can Tho, Viet Nam
Website	mdi.ctu.edu.vn/en/

Mekong Delta Development Research Institute (MDI) (Vietnamese: Viện Nghiên cứu Phát triển đồng bằng sông Cửu Long) is an institute in Can Tho, Vietnam. Established in 1976, it is an interdisciplinary training and research organization of Can Tho University in the Mekong Delta. The main function of the institute is to train human resources for the Mekong delta in rural development and farming system. The second important activity of the institute is doing scientific research.

Staff

At present, the total number of MDI staff is around 35, including 20 lecturers (04 Assoc. Profs, 07 PhDs and 09 Masters).

Function

Education and Training

The current training capacity of MDI is more than 500 students involving full-time undergraduate and postgraduate students, including 2 main majors:

Rural Development: bachelor, master and doctor degree
Agricultural System: master's degree

In addition, MDI cooperates with local authorities to organize more than 100 training courses per year for local officials about:

Rice producing, breeding and selecting techniques
Farming Systems Research/Extension
Techniques for new rural development communes
Other techniques about livelihood assessment and value chain

Research

The Institute pays attention to the following research areas:

Food security
Agricultural resources management
Rural development
Urban development
Climate change adaptation
Policies and governance in agricultural and rural aspects

Organizational structure

Up to now, Mekong Delta Development Research Institute (MDI) has 03 departments, 01 Center and an Administration office.

Department of Agriculture System
of Crop Resource Management^{[permanent dead link‍]}
Department of Socio Economic Policy Studies
Research and Training Center for Rural professions