Piloting climate-smart agriculture for climate-change adaptation in Viet Nam

A new project financed by the German Ministry for Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety will pilot climate-smart agricultural practices as ecosystem-based adaptation measures for climate-change adaptation and improvement of livelihoods in Ha Tinh Province, North Central Coast of Viet Nam.
The ultimate goal of the new project being implemented by World Agroforestry (ICRAF) is to enhance farmers’ livelihoods and their resilience to the impacts of climate variability and extreme events, in particular, through piloting climate-smart agricultural and ecosystem-based adaptation practices that have the potential to be expanded in scale to other areas.

The project’s specific objectives are to improve the adaptative capacity and livelihoods of female and male farmers in the province through implementation of the new practices as well as gender-aware intensification approaches that have the potential to be increased in scale; develop the capacities of farmers, government officials and others in integrating the practices as adaptation measures in programs and strategies; advise, build capacity and provide technical support for the process of national adaptation planning; assist Viet Nam in providing technical advice to contribute to the international debate on loss and damage under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, including the preparation of case studies from Ha Tinh; and support Vietnamese partners to co-develop an adaptation proposal, backed by financial plans in line with provincial and national targets.