News and Opinion

Vetiver Grass Technology – some random observations

Without soil and water there will be no photosynthesis and no life on this planet. Both are becoming degraded and in short supply globally — Vetiver Grass Technology (VGT) can improve both and deserves government focus and support.” agriculture, climate change, erosion, forage, plant, slope…

ICV7 Postponed

TVNI has been informed by the Chaipattana Foundation ­– the ICV7 organizer and host in Thailand — that due to the COVID-19 pandemic ICV-7 will be postponed until 2021. The specific dates are, as yet, under consideration. They will be…

Haiti — Vetiver Latrine update by Roger Gietzen

In 2016 while doing community development work in a rural farming region in Haiti, I became aware of the serious sanitation problem.  Open defecation is the norm and diseases such as Cholera are active.  The locals suggested building a single community latrine…

TVNI-WEBINAR 1 – EMBEDDING VETIVER GRASS TECHNOLOGY INTO FARM SYSTEMS AT VARIOUS SCALES UNDER “TROPICAL” and “SEMI-ARID” CONDITIONS

You are invited to a Zoom webinar. When: Apr 12, 2021 01:00 PM Greenwich Mean Time  (6.00 AM Pacific Standard Time) Topic: TVNI-WEBINAR 1 – EMBEDDING VETIVER GRASS TECHNOLOGY INTO  FARM SYSTEMS AT VARIOUS SCALES UNDER “TROPICAL” and “SEMI-ARID” CONDITIONS…

TVNI Website Upgrade

After nearly 30 years of use TVNI’s website is being completely overhauled by a professional company, Global Green of Vietnam. The new site will be based on a WordPress platform and should be up and running by the end of…

7th International Conference on Vetiver (ICV7)

ICV-7 will be held in Chiang Mai, Thailand from 29 May to 1 June 2023. The Conference will be a hybrid — in-person and online — and all attendees will need to register irrespective of personal or virtual attendance.  The…

Vetiver Systems Identification And Locator Project.

TVNI has a new “project” that we invite our community and others to participate in — and it should be fun doing… Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Vivamus tincidunt sagittis urna vitae eleifend. Pellentesque et justo vitae…

Vetiver System Introduced To Tuvalu – South Pacific

Robinson Vanoh (Vetiver Coordinator for PNG and South Pacific Islands has been leading a TVNI initiative to… Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Vivamus tincidunt sagittis urna vitae eleifend. Pellentesque et justo vitae tellus tristique convallis in et…