A project on sustainable forests, jointly
implemented by the German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL) and
the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD), has officially
launched. The project, entitled ’Promotion of Sustainable Management of
Production Forests by Forest Companies in Viet Nam’, will be carried out in the
period between 2017 and 2019, with a total funding of 692,185 euros (USD772,000)
and a counterpart fund of 55,000 euros (USD61,000). The project was assigned to
the Vietnamese Academy of Forest Sciences (VAFS), as the project owner, and DFS
and HessenForest (Germany), as consultants to provide technical support. The
three main objectives of the project are strengthening sustainable forest
management in the selected State forest companies; establishing a training
centre for sustainable forest management and forest certification, and
replication of capacity building for forest companies and related agencies
through training courses. Currently, sustainable forest management and forest
certification is one of the top priorities in the forestry sector in Viet Nam,
according to forestry experts on Wednesday. The Forestry Development Strategy
2006-20 has set a target of having at least 3 per cent of production forest
areas certified as managed in a sustainable fashion by 2020, the experts said. However,
the implementation of sustainable forest management and forest certification in
Viet Nam was far behind the expected targets. To promote sustainable forest
management and forest certification in Viet Nam, one of the current priorities
was to build the capacity of forest owners and stakeholders for sustainable
forest management. With the support of the project, the training centre for
sustainable forest management and forest certification will be established to
deliver the training courses to forest owners across the country from 2018. This
is a first model of training centre in Viet Nam on sustainable forest
management and certification that will be built on a joint co-operation between
forestry research institute and forest companies (for demonstration
activities). It is expected to make significant contribution to capacity
building for the stakeholders in the field of sustainable forest management in Viet
Nam, contributing to the implementation of forest sector restructuring project.
As of 2016, about 205,000ha of forest are certified for sustainable forest
management. On June 15th, the project launch workshop was held in Đông Hà City
of Quảng Trị Province with the participation of representatives from Viet Nam
Administration of Forestry, International Cooperation Department, and
Agriculture and Rural Development departments of Quảng Bình, Quảng Trị and Thừa
Thiên-Huế provinces and project partners. Viet
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