Lower Mekong Food Security Database

Project Information

The overall objectives of the project included:

• Support Eri Silk production for sustainable poverty reduction, among poor and disadvantaged ethnic minority populations in the forests of Central Highlands;
• Support the development of essential infrastructure for Eri Silk production and marketing in poor and remote areas;
• Build capacity of poor ethnic minority households through training and transfer of appropriate technology;
• Link remote areas to new national and international markets;
• Diversify livelihoods;
• Support a process of socially inclusive, participatory planning, involving the poor, ethnic minorities, and female-headed households; and
• Develop ways of setting up sustainable livelihoods which will be replicated in the counterpart project.
  

The project was highly participatory by design and was implemented through the coordinated efforts of Eri Silk farmers' organizations, local governments, local and international NGOs, and a quality control organization

Project Locations

Dac Lac, Gia Lai, Kon Tum