We are lucky to have dedicated and committed engineers like Shantanoo Bhattacharyya Executive Engineer, of Assam’s (India) Public Works Department who has been working for the past eight years in applying vetiver for slope stabilization, particularly for stabilizing the banks…
Although there are many other applications, Vetiver’s most important use is for soil and water conservation, and the need to use Vetiver for this purpose is growing every day as the negative impacts of climate change accelerate. This is especially the…
agriculture, climate change, disaster mitigation, erosion, health, Network News, slope stabilization, urban, wastewater, water Vetiver System has been used in Indonesia for at least 20 years, and in particular the East Bali Poverty Project used VS for a number of effective applications. Other groups and companies have used VS…
The 6th International Vetiver Conference – May 5-8 2015. This conference, “Vetiver System: Empowering Sustainable Development”, is only 3 months away and will be held in Danang, Vietnam.. We encourage you and your colleagues to attend this conference to see and hear…
A major TVNI objective is to give, through VS, the ability for communities to build resilience to climate change and associated problems created by unregulated third party activities – as in this case the disposal of toxic organic chemicals that…
Climate change is resulting in severe droughts in some parts of the world. The Vetiver System if applied and managed as a forage crop could provide communities and farmers greater resilience and protection. Analysis of vetiver leaf shows that at…
WHY, WHY, WHY, don’t those responsible for public works protection and maintenance use the VETIVER SYTEM ? Since 2000 the Vietnamese provincial governments have been testing and using the Vetiver System, at large scale, for highway (Ho Chi Minh Highway)…
Paul Truong, TVNI’s Technical Director has updated information relating to the tolerance of vetiver to cold. His slide presentation – COLD TOLERANCE OF VETIVER – should be of interest to users who live in areas of hot summers and cold winters –…
Climate change is already creating more intense storms – floods; and less rain and higher temperatures – drought. It will get WORSE. We need to become very much more active in finding solutions that can easily and inexpensively be applied. We have…
Coincident to the Climate Change meeting in Paris, TVNI has published the Second Edition of “The Vetiver System for Quality – Prevention and Treatment of Contaminated Water and Land” authored by Paul Truong of Australia and Luu Thai Danh of…
