tailieunhanh - Reviewing agroforestry and agroforest markets in Vietnam’s uplands

Agroforestry practices have existed in Vietnam and in many countries throughout the world for a long time. Among others, these sys tems include traditional shifting cultivation typical of ethnic minority groups and home gardens seen in many rural landscape ecologies | REVIEWING AGROFORESTRY AND AGROFOREST MARKETS IN VIETNAM S UPLANDS Agroforestry Development Situation in Vietnam s Uplands Agroforestry practices have existed in Vietnam and in many countries throughout the world for a long time. Among others these systems include traditional shifting cultivation typical of ethnic minority groups and home gardens seen in many rural landscape ecologies. From the 1960 s a Garden-Fish Pond-Livestock model was intensively developed and spread over the country by farmers in the northern provinces in parallel with the good production competition movement. This model has been modified into various forms which are suitable for each specific ecological region. Then Forest-Garden-Fish Pond-Livestock and hill garden models are also strongly developed throughout the upland regions. Additionally projects of non- governmental organizations and other international projects have introduced many sustainable cultivation technologies for sloped land in which there are agroforestry models. In the last twenty years the Vietnamese Government and the Communist Party implemented agroforestry policies for rural development in the mountainous regions of Vietnam. The process of managing implementing fixed cultivation sedentarization and developing economic zones in the past and recent programs such as the 327 program the five-million hectare forest program the 611 program farm development hunger elimination and policies focusing on poverty reduction are all related to the development of agroforestry systems. Recently the knowledge and information of agroforestry have also been summarized and evaluated by the scientists from different aspects. However search on the relation between agroforestry socio-economic and ecological development concludes that the agroforestry market is inadequate and un-uniformed at micro and macro levels. Although research on agroforestry systems and development were implemented in the world for a long time these systems were not .