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National Meeting to Identify Forest Research Priorities
Viet Nam - 07 January, 2015
Forest research is important for the development of the forest sector in Viet Nam as it has been concluded during a national meeting to identify forestry research priorities for the period 2015-2020 in the context of restructuring the forestry sector in Viet Nam.
The meeting took place on 18 December 2014 in Ha Noi, and was organized by TBI Viet Nam, in cooperation with Viet Nam’s Academy of Forest Science (VAFS) and the Department of Science, Technology, and Environment under the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MARD).
Around 120 representatives from NGOs, forestry organizations/agencies, governmental agencies, research institutes, and Universities in Viet Nam attended this conference. The Vice-Minister of MARD, Mr Ha Cong Tuan, opened the event with an overview of the responsibilities, advancements, and discoveries achieved by forest research from 2005 to the present. He also pointed out the constraints and challenges the research initiatives will face in the future. The comments and ideas of participants served as valuable foundations for VAFS to formulate a forest research action plan until 2020.