New and relevant knowledge from our research projects became available
on various topics of the forestry sector in Vietnam. This Conference
is part of the efforts of TBI-Vietnam to disseminate the outputs to our
direct partners and interested organizations so that new knowledge
can be used for better decision making and forest management in
Vietnam.
" To present the outputs from the first phase of the TBI-Vietnam
program
" Discuss the information required for the three identified
topics in the forestry sector in Vietnam
  |
| Participants of the Conference |
|
| In total, 62 participants from various organizations
and nationalities participated. Research organizations were
represented by universities and institutes from Vietnam and
abroad. NGO representatives as well as governmental organizations
were represented from a national and provincial level. Especially,
Mr. Hua Duc Nhi, vice Minister and several high officers from
Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) participated
as well. This wide range of participants partly contributed
to the success of this conference. |
More information
Conference
Program List of participants
|
| The Conference was opened by a Welcome from Mr.
Tran Huu Nghi (PTL of TBI-Vietnam) followed by several opening
speeches. In this session, TBI-Vietnam presented the participants
a synthesis of its activities and objectives of the program
in its 1st phase. The welcome session was closed by Mr. Le Tien
Phong, who spoke about his own experiences in capacity building
as one of the MSc students from the TBI-Vietnam programme. |
More information
Welcome
Session
Presentations
|
  |
| Welcome speech by the Conference Chairman |
Poster session
|
| The Program of the Conference included
three main sessions. Each session focused on a key issue on
the national and international forest agenda and included several
presentations, followed by a group discussion. 'Decision
making and planning in the forestry sector in Vietnam'
was the topic of the first session. |
| Outcomes were presented by the "INFOLINK"
project, which has developed a decision support system to facilitate
decision making for 5 year reforestation planning in Bo River
Management Board. Next, the GEOCOBUF project showed in his presentation
that the first steps for improved planning and decision-making
in Bach Ma NP have been taken. As final presentation of this
session, outcomes on the project on "evaluating the impacts
from forestry policies on sustainable management, utilization
and development of the forest estate in Khe Tre SFE in TTH province"
were presented. |
More information
Summary
Session I
Presentations
of session I
|
| 'Forests and local livelihoods'
were the main topic of the second session of the Conference.
The first presentation on 'agro-forestry systems in the buffer
zone of Bach Ma NP' focused on some project results showing
the potential income from tree growing under different agro-forestry
models. Main project outcomes were shown in the presentation
on 'Evaluation, Conservation and Sustainable Utilization of
rattan in Thua Thien Hue province'. The final presentation of
this session was given by Ms. Kristen Evans (CIFOR) on 'future
scenarios'. |
More information
Summary
Session II
Presentations
of session II
|
| The 3rd session of the
Conference focused on 'Forest functions, management and rehabilitation'.
Prof. Hoang Tri (CERE) presented an overview of the existing
biosphere reserves in Vietnam, concluded by some challenges
and recommendations. The session was continued with a presentation
on 'Dipterocarps tree species' and a presentation on the 'Relationship
between forests, soil erosion and seasonal water flow'. |
More information
Summary
Session III
Presentations
of session III
|
| A poster
session during the 1st day of the Conference
provided participants with the possibility to present their
more scientific results to a wider audience. This session also
proved to be a good opportunity for participants to share information
and discuss on their research projects and activities. |
| For the discussions,
we asked the participants to focus on two main questions. The
first question was 'What are the critical issues of the sector
with respect to the theme of this session?' Based on the outcomes,
we asked the participants to discuss for each identified issue,
the specific information and capacity needs? The discussions
were lively and a wide range of issues were mentioned by the
participants. |
More information
Outcomes
discussion sessions
|
| The final session of
the Conference was closed by Mr. Hua Duc Nhi, the
vice minister of MARD, in which he acknowledged the need for
further capacity building, research and information to improve
the forestry sector in Vietnam. With this respect, he also acknowledges
the contribution of TBI-Vietnam to contribute to this development.
|
More information
Conclusions
Mr. Hans Vellema
Keynote
speech
Mr. Hua Duc Nhi
|
|
|
|
