Keyword: "sustainable forest development"

Vietnam highly appreciates the valuable support of the German Government through KfW. Germany, through the German Reconstruction Bank (KfW), is one of Vietnam's largest bilateral donors.

Vietnam highly values the partnership with Ministry of the Korea Forest Service, which has gone beyond technical projects to become a sincere and practical friendship.

Vietnam now has 235,000 hectares of forest accredited by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) for sustainable management, according to statistics from the Vietnam Administration of Forestry (VNFOREST).

Vietnam aims to increase the total forest coverage to 42 percent, equivalent to 14.4 million hectares, by 2020.

Experts the JICA on April 8 worked with representatives from the People’s Committee of the northwest province of Dien Bien on a draft of the northwest region’s sustainable forest development project.