The Vietnamese Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD), in collaboration with the World Wide Fund for Nature in Vietnam (WWF-Vietnam), held a high-level forum on new approaches for sustainable agricultural landscape
According to MARD, the forum is an event to exchange among stakeholders new approaches to sustainable agricultural landscapes, learn and share models of sustainable agricultural landscape development in the world. The forum aims at proposing appropriate management and financial solutions for a sustainable agricultural landscape. At the same time, it also said to support Vietnamese policymakers and professional agencies with management tools and action plans to jointly implement the sector’s agricultural development tasks and international commitments to achieve the goal of sustainable development.
Speaking at the opening of the forum, deputy minister Le Quoc Doanh affirmed the determination of the agricultural sector to achieve green, transparent and responsible growth goals, transforming the agricultural model according to three axes of “Ecological agriculture - Modern countryside - Smart farmers”.
The deputy minister said that, in the new development context, with the tendency of multi-sectoral approaches that integrate agriculture with multi-values, a new approach to sustainable agricultural landscape management in interaction of animals, plants and the environment to ensure the health of people and the planet are being paid great attention by many countries around the world.
According to a statement by the ministry, in order to achieve ecological, modern and green agriculture in relation to development and interaction with other activities but still ensure a sustainable natural landscape, Vietnam urgently needs new knowledge, lessons on theory and best practices around the world.
