Announcements

UPCOMING EVENT: Toward’s Thailand’s Green Transformation: Research on Emerging Challenges and Opportunities

[Closed] CALL FOR APPLICANTS: Just Futures Mekong Fellowship Program

Publications

POLICY BRIEF: "Protecting the Customary Rights and Way of Life in Thailand’s Small-scale Fishery Communities"

ข้อเสนอแนะเชิงนโยบาย: การคุ้มครองสิทธิตามจารีตประเพณีและวิถีชีวิตของชุมชนประมงพื้นบ้านในประเทศไทย

POLICY BRIEF: "From Trust to Recognition: Strengthening a Participatory and Community-Grounded Seed System in Thailand "

ข้อเสนอแนะเชิงนโยบาย: จากกระบวนการสร้างความไว้วางใจสู่การรับรอง: การเสริมสร้างระบบเมล็ดพันธุ์ แบบมีส่วนร่วมบนฐานของชุมชนในประเทศไทย

POLICY BRIEF: "Walking Alongside Communities: Supporting Community-Led Adaptation Resilience beyond Climate Change in Northern Thailand’s highlands"

ข้อเสนอแนะเชิงนโบบาย: เดินเคียงข้างชุมชน: การสนับสนุนการปรับตัวอย่างยืดหยุ่นที่นำโดยชุมชนเพื่อก้าวข้ามการเปลี่ยนแปลงสภาพภูมิอากาศในพื้นที่สูงภาคเหนือของประเทศไทย

POLICY BRIEF: "Connecting Thailand’s Community-based Tourism to Chinese Travellers: Local Voices, Emerging Trends, and Collaboration"

ข้อเสนอแนะเชิงนโยบาย: การเชื่อมโยงการท่องเที่ยวโดยชุมชนของไทยกับนักท่องเที่ยวจีน: เสียงจากท้องถิ่น แนวโน้มที่กำลังเกิดขึ้นและความร่วมมือ

POLICY BRIEF: "Can Chinese EV Investment Contribute to Thailand’s Green Transformation?"

ข้อเสนอแนะเชิงนโยบาย: การลงทุนในรถยนต์ไฟฟ้า (EV) ของจีนมีส่วนช่วยในการเปลี่ยนผ่านสู่ความเป็นมิตรต่อสิ่งแวดล้อมของประเทศไทยได้หรือไม่?

Resources

PARTICIPATORY VIDEO: “Local Fisheries Voice: When Housing Right are Insecure”

PHOTO EXHIBITION: "Photo stories from the Just Futures Mekong Fellowship Program (2025)"

EVENT RESOURCES: "Toward’s Thailand’s Green Transformation: Research on Emerging Challenges and Opportunities"

WORKSHOP: Turning Knowledge into Action for Green Transformation: "First Workshop for Just Futures Mekong Fellowship Program"

WORKSHOP: Cultivating Connections: Just Futures Mekong Fellows at the 'Young Seed for the Future' Festival

Contact

Contact Fellowship Coordinator or Carl Middleton for further details.



Project Status: Ongoing


The ‘Just Futures Mekong Fellowship Program’ is a capacity strengthening and research program launched in July 2024 that supports young individuals to address pressing environmental and social challenges through research, collaboration, and regional dialogue. The current themes of the fellowship program encompasses: organic farming and agroecology; coastal community resource governance; community based tourism; and climate change, including farmer climate adaptation and climate finance. 

By engaging with scholars, civil society, policymakers, and other actors, the ‘Just Futures Mekong Fellowship Program’ aims to create a comprehensive and transformative experience that empowers fellows to make a meaningful and lasting impact advancing just sustainability in the Mekong Region, build networks and collaborations, contribute towards collaborators’ missions, and support fellows to further their career and personal aspirations.

The ‘Just Futures Mekong Fellowship Program’ entails the following:

  • Training & Solidarity: The fellowship begins with a pre-arrival online orientation program and then in-person workshops with CSDS at Chulalongkorn University, equipping Fellows with essential skills for research and working in a multi-cultural context.

  • Placement: Fellows are located in a six-month placement with a host organization, working alongside colleagues in the organization and contributing to impactful projects.

  • Co-produced knowledge: Fellows co-create knowledge and solutions through a research project guided by an experienced mentor, addressing critical sustainability challenges.

  • Futures Thinking: Aligned with the Chulalongkorn University UNESCO Chair in Resource Governance and Futures Literacy, Fellows will build futures literacy to envision and shape sustainable futures.

  • Policy Impact: Fellows contribute to real-world change by informing policy-making processes, advocating for sustainable practices, and inspiring further research.

The first round of the fellowship runs between February and August 2025. The partner organizations and fellows are collaborating on research as follows:

Partner Organization Fellow Research Topic
Climate Finance Network Thailand
Yuan Ye
Governance at the Crossroads: Chinese Electric Vehicle Investment and Thailand’s Sustainable Future
Local Alike
Mai Xueying
Cross-Market Promotion of Thailand’s Community-Based Tourism (CBT) to China
Sustainable Agriculture Foundation Thailand
Shao Meng
Promises, Pitfalls, and Prospects: An Indigenous Community's Everyday Navigations of Climate Change in Rural Northern Thailand
Sustainable Development Foundation
Jiao Xiaofang
Camera, Community, and the Act of Claiming: Visual Participation and Everyday Struggles for the Right to Stay in Coastal Thailand
Towards Organic Asia
Zhou Yuting
Towards Sustainable Seed Systems: Young Farmers, Grassroots Innovation, and Feasibility of Seed Social Enterprises