Local Rangers in The Model of Special Use Forest Co-Management at Ngoc Son – Ngo Luong Reserve
Research and capacity building on REDD+, livelihoods, and vulnerability in Vietnam
Incentives key to forest protection
Like many farmers living near the Ngoc Son-Ngo Luong Nature Reserve, Bui Van Benh of the Muong ethic group used to go into the forest to collect timber when he wanted to build a new house. "We rely on the…
Consultation Workshop: Participatory Governance Assessment for REDD+ in Vietnam
The Participatory Governance Assessment for REDD+ in Viet Nam is about to complete Stage 1. The objectives of Stage 1 are: conducting an Institutional and Context Analysis for improved understanding of the context and identifying relevant stakeholders, and reaching agreement…
Viet Nam’s Forestry Sector and Environmental Sustainability
VNGO-FLEGT to Comment for the 5th Draft of the Legality Definition
The VNGO&FLEGT Network was formulated in January 2012 and currently consists of 20 non-governmental organizations, and research institutes and development centers from several universities nationwide. Represented for the network is a Core Group consisting of fourorganisations: the Centre of Research…
First Newsletter of the REDD+ Community Carbon Pools Program
The Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) Community Carbon Pools Program has just published its first e-newsletter, which features updates from the pilot sites as well as links to online resources. The program has been up and runnning…
Lauching the REDD+ Community Carbon Pools Program in Vietnam
Fuelled by Forests
The past 20 years in Vietnam have been remarkable. The economy has expanded by an average of 7 percent annually since the mid-1990s and according to the Vietnam Development Report 2011, “poverty has fallen drastically from 60 percent in 1993…