Hit by drought and land degradation, Vietnam has been taking strong actions to enforce the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) to join global efforts against these global phenomena. 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%.

Source: Vietnam News Agency