Lower Mekong Food Security Database

Project Information

The JFPR Project was designed to contribute to poverty reduction in the mountainous districts in the northern central region of Vietnam by enhancing agricultural income and ensuring food security (rice and maize) among the poor through community-based agricultural extension and training programs. The project specifically aimed to:

• Improve livelihoods of the rural poor in remote communities through better cultivation practices on food crops, and through appropriate knowledge and technologies for other crops and income-generating activities;
• Increase the capacity of local agricultural extension workers and grassroot-level extension agents in appropriate cultivation techniques, and participatory and pro-poor extension services; and
• Establish farmer-to-farmer learning networks; and (iv) promote decentralized and participatory planning, monitoring and evaluation.
  

The project also disseminated relevant information and knowledge generated from the project to AST institutions, provincial governments and other key stakeholders on the impacts of applying improved techniques and how to take advantage of community resources for agricultural extension and training programs.

Complementary Information

The project had gender aspects including gender target and participation. To ensure active participation of female farmers, the project had a gender equality strategy focused on three areas: development priorities, gender strategies, and operational parameters.

Project Locations

Nghe An, Thanh Hoa