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Pedagogic Planning Workshop

Venue: Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden
Time: June 1-7, 2008

 

With the main aim at sharing ideas and principles in educational policies, pedagogical approaches among institutions in the RDViet network, the Project will organize an Education workshops for Vietnamese resource persons at Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala from 1 to 7 June, 2008. 11 teachers from different institutions and universities around Vietnam have been selected to attend this workshop. more detail....

 

 

The 4th Scientific Meeting on Rural Changes
10-12 March, 2008

The meeting was held at Hue University Conference Hall at 3. Le Loi, Hue city, Vietnam on 10-12 March, 2008. The main theme of  this scientific meeting was on Rural Changes with specific attention on:

  • Non-agricultural diversification of rural livelihoods

  • Adaptation and risk management

Objectives for the meeting were:

  • To present and share information on current research on the theme of rural changes

  • To exchange ideas, experiences and research methodology on studies as well as research needs on the themes;

  • To present PhD and master research and research plans and discuss ideas for further support within VS-RDE research co-operation program (for details)

 

Conference on research, training and human resource demands on Rural Development
An Giang, 17th DECEMBER, 2007

The conference on Research, Training and Human Demands on Rural Development for provinces in Mekong delta was carried out in An Giang University on 17th December, 2007. The conference received around 60 participants from 7 collaborating universities in country and universities, and other universities, including An Giang university,  Tien Giang University, Tra Vinh University, and provincial departments of agriculture and rural development in the Mekong delta, such as Can Tho, Hau Giang, An Giang, Tien Giang, Tra Vinh, Vinh Long...

The conference emphasized three major themes: 

Theme 1: Academic training in Rural Development

Theme 2: Research on Rural Development
Theme 3: Demand and Use of Human Resources on Rural Development

Ngày 11-13 tháng 08 vừa qua, Dự án VS-RDE-01 đã tổ chức thành công Hội Thảo về Đối thoại giữa các nhà hoạch định chính sách và khoa học về phát triển nông thôn ở Việt Nam tại KS Bamboo Green II, TP Đà Nẵng.

Hội nghị đã hân hạnh đón tiếp gần 40 đại biểu từ Đại Sứ Quán Thụy Điển, Bộ Nông nghiệp & PTNT, Bộ Giáo dục và Đào tạo, Viện kinh tế nông nghiệp, Viện Quy hoạch Nông nghiệp, Sở Kế hoạch và Đầu tư Thừa Thiên Huế, Sở Nông Lâm Thủy Sản TP Đà Nẵng, các trường tham gia trong dự án Nghiên cứu phát triển nông thôn bền vững ở Việt Nam (RDViet): Đại Học Nông nghiệp Thụy Điển, ĐH NN1 Hà Nội, Viện Chăn Nuôi, ĐH Vinh, ĐH Nông Lâm Huế, ĐH Cần Thơ, ĐH An Giang và ĐH Nông Lâm TPHCM.

Ban tổ chức vô cùng vinh dự được đón tiếp và nghe báo cáo của Ông Lê Huy Ngọ-Ủy Viên Ban chấp hành Trung ương Đảng, nguyên bộ trưởng Bộ Nông nghiệp & PTNT; GS. Võ Tòng Xuân, hiệu trưởng trường ĐH An Giang, TS. Đặng Kim Sơn, Viện trưởng Viện kinh tế nông nghiệp.. những người có nhiều kinh nghiệm và hoài bão trong công cuộc PTNT.

Hội nghị đã nghe 08 báo cáo, tập trung vào 04 lĩnh vực:

-         Những vấn đề chung về PTNT: khái niệm, phương pháp tiếp cận...

-         Những chính sách PTNT và chiến lược phát triển nông thôn ở Việt Nam

-         Nghiên cứu trường hợp về việc đề xuất chính sách cho PTNT như quy hoạch có sự tham gia, đào tạo cán bộ về PTNT...

-         Phát triển nông thôn ở một số tỉnh miền Trung.

            Các đại biểu cũng đã tham qua một Chương trình Phát triển nông thôn tổng hợp ở xã Hoà Tiến, Huyện Hoà Vang, TP Đà Nẵng vào chiều ngày 12 tháng 08 năm 2005.

The workshop on
‘From Sustainable Farming Systems to Sustainable Landscape
– local and science knowledge for Food Security within Rural Development’

Background and Objectives

Widespread and severe household food insecurity occurs in many farming systems in the Tropics as well as in Vietnam and this is expected to remain as a major concern during the coming decades. Food insecurity and poverty are interrelated, and are more prevalent and severe in rural areas than in urban areas. Therefore food security is one important goal within a rural development context. The food security of smallholders includes income security with market integration and also with nutrition security. The challenge for improving farmers’ food security in a changing world is how to develop sustainable land use, were production and environmental protection go hand in hand.

Involving multi-stakeholders and drawing upon their perspectives and knowledge is considered essential in the development of sustainable land use. Farmers’ knowledge of landscape relationships and their perceptions of an underlying logic play an important role in their management decisions. A range of methods and approaches by which knowledge from communities can be combined with scientific knowledge for the development of sustainable land use practices at farm and landscape levels has been developed by various projects in Vietnam and in Southeast Asian region. These projects aim at food security for local people within the context of Rural Development and Environment Protection.

The objectives of this workshop are:

  • To gain a common understanding on Food Security approach within the Rural Development context.

  • To share research results, including methods, approaches and case studies from various projects within the university network ‘Sustainable Rural Development and Environment – RDViet’, and the project Sustainable Land Use for the Uplands of Vietnam and Laos – Science and Local Knowledge for Food Security – LUSLOF project. The LUSLOF is a collaborative research project between the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) Southeast Asia, the National Institute for Soils and Fertilizers (NISF) in Vietnam, the National Agriculture and Forestry Institute (NAFRI) of Laos, and the Department of Soil Sciences, the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), for the period 2002-2005.

  • To discuss the possibility of scaling up of the methods developed in the short-term - as well as strategic research in the field of Rural Development.

  • To increase awareness among a wide audience on the dual benefits of combining local and science knowledge – production and environmental protection.

The workshop is co-organized by the Sida/SAREC-funded Project RDViet and the Rockefeller Foundation (RF) funded project LUSLOF.

 

TENTATIVE PROGRAM

“EXTENSION RESEARCH – PRACTICE & CHALLENGES”

Objectives:    

ü      Sharing understandings and experiences on extension research in the world and in Vietnam

ü      Discussing how to strengthen research linkages with extension

 Duration:        3 days, 6-7-8 August 2005

Venue:            Vinh University, 182 Le Duan, Vinh City, Nghe An Province, Vietnam

Organizers:

§   Research Cooperation for Sustainable Rural Development in Vietnam  (RDViet)– Hue University of Agriculture and Forestry (HUAF)

§   Department of Rural Development and AgroEcology - Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU)

§   Vinh University (VU)

Research Cooperation Project for Sustainable Rural Development in Vietnam

Vietnamese Project Leader

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Le Duc Ngoan - Vice Rector

Hue University of Agriculture and Forestry (HUAF)

102 Phung Hung, Hue city, Vietnam

Tel/Fax: 84 54 536 056

Email: rdviet@vnn.vn or le.ngoan@vnn.vn

Swedish Project Leader

Dr. Britta Ogle - Head

Department of Urban and Rural Development

Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU)

Tel: +46 18 671953

Fax: +46 18 673420

Email: britta.ogle@sol.slu.se