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This film is produced under the OSRO/GLO/707/USA : Continued support to the FAO/ECTAD Advocacy and Communication Unit to provide strategic technical assistance and strengthen in-country capacities, competencies and leadership in advocacy and advocacy-related communication against HPAI and other Emerging Infectious Diseases. The film is the real re-enactment of real events that took place in the commune of Thoi Quang, Kien Giang province

Join program on “Strengthening Capacities to Enhance Coordinated and Integrated Disaster Risk Reduction A promotional campaign through National media on the matter of providing new ideas, policy proposals derived from IMOLA project to authorized organizations of the state and the Party in charge of implementing Tam Nong Resolution; highlighting the role of FAO in supporting Vietnamese government in implementing Tam Nong Resolution.

Introduction on the UNJP VIE 037 “Strengthening Capacities to Enhance Coordinated and Integrated Disaster Risk Reduction Actions and Adaptation to Climate Change in Agriculture in the Northern Mountain Regions of Viet Nam

An effort is under way worldwide to better manage our planet’s forest resources and better enhance their role in mitigating climate change. Forest loss and degradation in developing countries account for nearly 20% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Monitoring and reducing these emissions has been the key goal for the international community in climate change negotiations and is important for the upcoming Rio+20 conference on sustainable development. Viet Nam is one example of a country that’s taking important steps to manage and expand its forest resources.

Viet Nam is receiving help to achieve these very goals from Finland's government and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization. In March 2011, these partners launched Vietnam's National Forest Assessment program, or NFA, to establish an up-to-date and accurate means of assessing the state of Viet Nam's forest resources. Data on forest biodiversity, environmental carbon stock of the forest, and information on social, economic and other factors related to forest governance will enable Viet Nam's policymakers to plan for more sustainable forest management.

The handicrafts and furniture sector in Viet Nam employs about 1.35 million people in more than 2,000 crafts villages. Being a major source of income for smallholder farmers/landless poor, the sector has high potential to alleviate poverty. Handicrafts have been made a development priority by the Vietnamese government in order to promote human resources development, sustainable production and entrepreneurship upgrading in rural areas. The programme aims to increase income and employment opportunities for raw material growers/collectors and grassroots producers of handicrafts and small furniture, targeting 4,450 poor households in four northern provinces of Viet Nam, namely Thanh Hoa,[...]