Poverty Reduction in Upland Communities in the Mekong Region through Improved Community and Industrial Forestry - RETA 6115
Updated: 15 August 2005
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Poverty is endemic in the Mekong region with about a third of the population (80 million out of 250 million) living in poverty. A large percentage of the poor live in rural areas and earn a significant proportion of their incomes from natural resource based activities such as agriculture, fishery, and forestry. It is evident that forestry could play a more important role in achieving targeted poverty reduction. With this in mind, the ADB has initiated this Regional Technical Assistance project (RETA).
Specific purposes of this project are to:
- review and assess the performance and potential of community and industrial forestry to reduce poverty in the Mekong region (specifically Cambodia, Lao PDR, Viet Nam)
- assess the likely impacts of the changing forest industry investment structure and trade patterns on the poverty reduction potential of forestry in the project focal countries
- focus on areas where and conditions under which forest-based activities can potentially improve livelihoods and increase rural incomes, and reduce the vulnerability of forest-dependent communities, especially ethnic minorities and women.
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Implementation partners on this project include the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) and the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific.
Executing agencies include the Forestry Administration within the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries (MAFF) in Cambodia, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) in Viet Nam, and the National Agriculture and Forestry Research Institute (NAFRI) within the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MAF)in Lao PDR.
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