Overview
This project aimed to develop and promote market-based agroforestry options to improve livelihoods and enhance forest and landscape management.
In northwest Vietnam, rural poverty is rife and unsustainable farming practices take place on mountainous lands, resulting in severe soil erosion and leaving half of the remaining forest degraded.
The development of market-based agroforestry that enables farmers to diversify, reduce erosion and achieve higher incomes could go a long way to addressing the region’s poverty, deforestation and land degradation challenges.
This project quantified and evaluated the performance of generic agroforestry options and tree species to underpin investment in promoting agroforestry; generated understanding of the suitability of different agroforestry options in relation to different contexts and develop markets and policy to scale-up adoption; understanding the ecological and economic values of degraded forests, and co-developed appropriate forest rehabilitation methods with local communities; understanding drivers of land-use change and develop cross-sector planning approaches for landscapes, integrating forests and agroforestry land uses; developed local capacity for agroforestry, forest rehabilitation and integrated landscape management.