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Together we can achieve sustainable management of tropical forestlands for the benefit of people, conservation and sustainable development.
More informationTropenbos Viet Nam support Yang Tao IPLCs to preserve and promote the traditional pottery craft village, creating sustainable local livelihoods for M’nong ethnic minority, contributing to reducing the negative impacts on natural forest using and timber exploitation.
The DFG-funded project “Fair institutions for sustainable agricultural landscapes: An empirical investigation of procedural equity in incentive-based policy instruments“ aims to generate a better understanding of the importance of procedural equity, i.e. fair decision-making processes in local level implementation of incentive-based policy instruments for the sustainable provision of ecosystem services. The project follows an embedded multi-method case study design focusing on Vietnam’s national Payments for Forest Ecosystem Services scheme, as ‘typical’ PES with collective decision-making in local level benefit-sharing mechanisms. The position is part of the working group “Governance of Ecosystem Services”. The central question of this working group is which governance approaches allow for the targeted and equitable provision of societally desired ecosystem services and biodiversity conservation objectives.
On September 21, Tropenbos Vietnam, under the chairmanship of Dak Lak People's Committee, held a working session with local authorities including the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, the Department of Natural Resources and Environment and relevant stakeholder to exchange research results on land encroachment issues, proposals, building a roadmap for implementation and proposals for building forest restoration projects and developing agroforestry associated with payment of accumulated carbon credits.