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"The law of the jungle" at the Annamese Range
Date: 06/03/2017
The strength of local customary laws helped maintain the village's forest when all surrounding forests have turned into barren hills or been replaced with industrial plants. ...
Return traditional forestland to community and reduce costs issue
Date: 19/02/2017
After the disbandment of a state forestry company in Kon Tum province in 2016, all forestland zone of this company was transferred to a management board (MB) for protection forest in the province. There are areas traditionally used by the community for generations among the mentioned ...
Assessing ethnic minority youths’ needs for vocational training in Si Ma Cai district
Date: 19/02/2017
CIRUM has cooperated with the department of Labour, Invalid and Social Affair of Si Ma Cai district, Lao Cai province to assess the needs for vocational training on agro-forestry, husbandry and veterinary of the ethnic minority youths in the 13 communes during 26 to 30 December 2016. ...
Thai ethnic community in Đồng Văn commune confirm their land rights
Date: 19/02/2017
Culture Identity and Resources Use Management (CIRUM) has cooperated with local authorities and relevant agencies in advisory and support land allocation programmes in provinces of Lào Cai, Lạng Sơn, Nghệ An and Kon Tum for years. Until February 2017, with support from CIRUM, ...
Rubber comes back, community forests are under pressure
Date: 14/02/2017
“There is a threat of revival of rubber project, because the price of natural latex has reached VND 20,000 per kilo”. This is a warn by Mr. Phan Dinh Nha, advisory expert on forestland policy at the yearly meeting of LandNet. This is especially applicable for some mountainous ...
Meeting of CIRUM Board members
Date: 10/01/2017
The CIRUM Board members hold a regular annual meeting in order to review results of 2016 and set out a strategic orientation for 2017. The meeting took place at the CIRUM office at No. 12C Phạm Huy Thông, Ngọc Khánh ward, Ba Đình district, Hà Nội on the 8th January 2017. ...
Secondary school students from Hanoi visit Farmer Field School Simacai, Lao Cai
Date: 27/12/2016
CIRUM organized an one-day field study for a group of students from Hanoi Lomonoxop Secondary School to visit FFS Simacai. This study was a request from the school and the student's’ parents to give the students first experience of eco-farming practices in the northern of Vietnam ...
Chairman of Kon Tum People’s Committee awards Ka Bay village for ‘Best village community forest management’
Date: 12/12/2016
In the beginning of December 2016, Chairman of Kon Tum People’s Committee awarded Kay Bay village with the title of ‘Best Forest Protection and Management in Kon Tum province’. This is the first time that a village in Kon Tum has achieve such an accomplishment. ...
