Hanoi, Viet Nam. FAO in collaboration with Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) are organizing the consultation workshop to finalize project proposals and develop an integrated program of the agricultural sector to implement the National Action Plan to adapt to Climate Change.

Viet Nam submitted its Initial Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC) to UNFCCC in November 2016. The NDC contains a number of priority measures to reduce GHG emissions and improving climate resilience in agriculture, including application of low-emission technologies and production processes, introducing climate-resilient crop varieties, and improving disease control and prevention systems.

With funding and support from FAO, the Institute for Policy and Strategy for Agriculture and Rural Development (IPSARD), the Alliance of Bioversity and International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) are currently conducting in cooperation with other CGIAR centres a study to prioritize and define potential geographically-explicit interventions to support achievement of priority agriculture measures under Vietnam’s NDC. The study is being conducted in close coordination with the MARD, provincial authorities and other stakeholders.

The objectives of the one-day consultation workshop today are

• to update the participants on MARD’s NDC process and NDC’s option prioritization framework
• to conduct a review of the proposed projects to strengthen their technical, operational and financial feasibility 
• to identify potential implementing parties, sources of funding and implementation timelines for the projects
• to identify how to include prioritized projects or consolidated programmes into MARD’s Updated Climate Response Action Plan  for 2021-2030, with vision to 2050

The workshop is held in Hanoi with participants are representatives from Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, CIAT, CGIAR and many other related institutions.