Bankable projects offer sustainable development for local people

About 325 households in the mountainous districts of Quảng Nam Province have benefited from the business-community cooperation on sustainable farming of rattan while protecting primary rattan from long-term exploitation.

The Landscape Resilience Fund (LRF) is a collaboration between WWF and South Pole, implemented in the Central Annamites by WWF-Vietnam, which supports climate-resilient agriculture and forestry businesses embedded within a sustainable landscape approach, WWF-Vietnam said. The LRF is a public-private partnership that aims to mobilize US$100 million by 2026 for climate adaptation projects that support sustainable agricultural and forestry supply chains and that improve the resilience of smallholder farmers in developing countries.

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