Vietnam joins hands in land management, desertification combat
Vietnam is impacted by drought, land degradation, and moving sand dunes. Degraded land nationwide approximates 12 million ha, accounting for 35.74% of the country’s total area, according to a 2021 land survey by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment.
Protecting and development forest is an effective method to prevent desertification and drought, curb land degradation, and accelerate land recovery.
To do that, Vietnam has fruitfully implemented a programme on greening bare land and hills (Programme 327) and a project on planting 5 million ha of forest (Project 661) with the aim of creating conditions for ethnic minority people in remote and particularly disadvantaged areas to benefit from forest and generating socio-economic and environmental effects. As a result, the country’s forest coverage has been expanded from the lowest rate of 27.8% in 1993 to 42% at present, compared to the global average of 31%.
