Land degradation and restoration in Lao Cai and Son La Provinces, northern mountainous region of Vietnam. Scoping study for the One CGIAR Initiative on Nature-Positive Solutions

Vietnam is among the few countries worldwide that have experienced a net increase in forest cover in the past decades. Widespread tree planting efforts have provided important income sources for local communities, including ethnic minority groups. However, the emphasis has been on monocrop plantatio...

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Autores principales: Chien, Pham Duc, Nguyen, Van Truong, Hoang, Lien Son, Ha, Van Tiep, Hoang, Nguyen Viet Hoa, Jalonen, Riina
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Publicado: 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/138647
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author Chien, Pham Duc
Nguyen, Van Truong
Hoang, Lien Son
Ha, Van Tiep
Hoang, Nguyen Viet Hoa
Jalonen, Riina
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Ha, Van Tiep
Hoang, Lien Son
Hoang, Nguyen Viet Hoa
Jalonen, Riina
Nguyen, Van Truong
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Nguyen, Van Truong
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description Vietnam is among the few countries worldwide that have experienced a net increase in forest cover in the past decades. Widespread tree planting efforts have provided important income sources for local communities, including ethnic minority groups. However, the emphasis has been on monocrop plantations of exotic tree species, which has yielded limited ecosystem service benefits such as biodiversity conservation and watershed protection. Simultaneously, ongoing land use changes and unsustainable farming practices contribute to worsening soil erosion and biodiversity loss, and increase the vulnerability of production systems and livelihoods to climate change. The OneCGIAR Initiative on Nature-positive solutions (NATURE+) seeks to co-create and implement agri-food systems that are based on nature-positive production practices and support local food and nutrition security and livelihoods, while simultaneously ensuring that agriculture is a net positive contributor to nature. This includes identifying effective and scalable approaches to restore degraded communal and smallholder lands and related ecosystem services, and identify opportunities to increase tree cover, including native tree species, in restoration efforts. The NATURE+ initiative is implemented in Vietnam’s Son La and Lao Cai provinces in the country’s Northern Mountainous region, as well as in India, Burkina Faso, Kenya and Colombia. The objective of this scoping study is to identify good practices, lessons learned and recommendations from past forest and landscape restoration efforts in Vietnam that have helped halt land degradation and biodiversity loss while simultaneously improving rural livelihoods. The findings of the study will be used to refine contextually relevant research and development interventions for NATURE+ in Vietnam.
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spelling CGSpace1386472025-11-05T11:34:02Z Land degradation and restoration in Lao Cai and Son La Provinces, northern mountainous region of Vietnam. Scoping study for the One CGIAR Initiative on Nature-Positive Solutions Chien, Pham Duc Nguyen, Van Truong Hoang, Lien Son Ha, Van Tiep Hoang, Nguyen Viet Hoa Jalonen, Riina land use agroforestry sustainability forest cover land degradation forest biodiversity restoration Vietnam is among the few countries worldwide that have experienced a net increase in forest cover in the past decades. Widespread tree planting efforts have provided important income sources for local communities, including ethnic minority groups. However, the emphasis has been on monocrop plantations of exotic tree species, which has yielded limited ecosystem service benefits such as biodiversity conservation and watershed protection. Simultaneously, ongoing land use changes and unsustainable farming practices contribute to worsening soil erosion and biodiversity loss, and increase the vulnerability of production systems and livelihoods to climate change. The OneCGIAR Initiative on Nature-positive solutions (NATURE+) seeks to co-create and implement agri-food systems that are based on nature-positive production practices and support local food and nutrition security and livelihoods, while simultaneously ensuring that agriculture is a net positive contributor to nature. This includes identifying effective and scalable approaches to restore degraded communal and smallholder lands and related ecosystem services, and identify opportunities to increase tree cover, including native tree species, in restoration efforts. The NATURE+ initiative is implemented in Vietnam’s Son La and Lao Cai provinces in the country’s Northern Mountainous region, as well as in India, Burkina Faso, Kenya and Colombia. The objective of this scoping study is to identify good practices, lessons learned and recommendations from past forest and landscape restoration efforts in Vietnam that have helped halt land degradation and biodiversity loss while simultaneously improving rural livelihoods. The findings of the study will be used to refine contextually relevant research and development interventions for NATURE+ in Vietnam. 2023-12 2024-01-29T09:15:54Z 2024-01-29T09:15:54Z Report https://hdl.handle.net/10568/138647 en Open Access application/pdf Chien, P.D.; Nguyen, V.T.; Hoang, L.S.; Ha, V.T.; Hoang, N.V.H.; Jalonen, R. (2023) Land degradation and restoration in Lao Cai and Son La Provinces, northern mountainous region of Vietnam. Scoping study for the One CGIAR Initiative on Nature-Positive Solutions. 46 p.
spellingShingle land use
agroforestry
sustainability
forest cover
land degradation
forest biodiversity
restoration
Chien, Pham Duc
Nguyen, Van Truong
Hoang, Lien Son
Ha, Van Tiep
Hoang, Nguyen Viet Hoa
Jalonen, Riina
Land degradation and restoration in Lao Cai and Son La Provinces, northern mountainous region of Vietnam. Scoping study for the One CGIAR Initiative on Nature-Positive Solutions
title Land degradation and restoration in Lao Cai and Son La Provinces, northern mountainous region of Vietnam. Scoping study for the One CGIAR Initiative on Nature-Positive Solutions
title_full Land degradation and restoration in Lao Cai and Son La Provinces, northern mountainous region of Vietnam. Scoping study for the One CGIAR Initiative on Nature-Positive Solutions
title_fullStr Land degradation and restoration in Lao Cai and Son La Provinces, northern mountainous region of Vietnam. Scoping study for the One CGIAR Initiative on Nature-Positive Solutions
title_full_unstemmed Land degradation and restoration in Lao Cai and Son La Provinces, northern mountainous region of Vietnam. Scoping study for the One CGIAR Initiative on Nature-Positive Solutions
title_short Land degradation and restoration in Lao Cai and Son La Provinces, northern mountainous region of Vietnam. Scoping study for the One CGIAR Initiative on Nature-Positive Solutions
title_sort land degradation and restoration in lao cai and son la provinces northern mountainous region of vietnam scoping study for the one cgiar initiative on nature positive solutions
topic land use
agroforestry
sustainability
forest cover
land degradation
forest biodiversity
restoration
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/138647
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