 There's a beautiful sunset over the Mekong here in Gentian. You want to have a look? If my calculations are correct, around one out of three of you who are hopefully watching this video are living and working somewhere in the basin of this amazing lifeline that starts up there in China and goes all the way down to the delta in Vietnam. Hi, my name is Albert Ernsberger. I'm a geographer at the Center for Development and Environment, the CDE, at the University of Bern in Switzerland. Together with my colleagues, Connie Hett, Anton Gouyen and Jean-Christophe Diepard, we are currently developing the second Mekong State of Land publication. Here's Anton. She will tell you more about this project. The Mekong State of Land is a collaboration between CDE and MRLG to assess the key challenges, pathways and solutions in the topics of agrarian transition, agricultural commercialization, land and forest tenure, and the environmental impacts of this transition. In this phase of the project, we will be developing a special issue in a scientific publication that will inform a series of policy products for the Mekong region. Given the strong topical overlap within the Mekong Land Forum, our team would like to take this opportunity to interact with you, the diverse participants of this forum, to let us know your insights and the key challenges facing the region today. Jean-Christophe will tell us about two ways we'd like to encourage you to interact with us. We encourage you to interact with us in two different ways. First, we welcome you to join the Mekong State of Land discussion group that we have set on the UWA application. There you will have an opportunity to continue the conversation about the key land issues facing the region. And secondly, we will be conducting polls within each session to help us capture the key priorities of researchers, practitioners and policymakers alike. So please make sure to subscribe to the discussion group and don't miss the poll that will be announced during the forum. Now I'll let Connie tell you more about the value of your participation. You are an expert in fields related to land tenure and agrarian change in the Mekong region. Your knowledge, your experience and your opinions matter very much to us. Please participate in our UWA discussion group and our conference polls to contribute to the development of the Mekong State of Land products. We take this conference as an opportunity to identify co-authors and contributors for a special issue in a scientific journal and a series of policy products. So please let us know if you're interested in contributing to both the Mekong State of Land evidence base and a policy engagement and dialogue. We look forward to interacting with you at the Mekong Land Forum.