Asia-Pacific Forestry Sector Outlook Study: Country Report - Vietnam













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by
Nguyen Tuong Van
Forestry Development Department
Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development
Vietnam

ASIA-PACIFIC FORESTRY SECTOR OUTLOOK STUDY
WORKING PAPER SERIES
ASIA-PACIFIC FORESTRY TOWARDS 2010

Working Paper No: APFSOS/WP/31

FAO
Food and Agriculture of the United Nations

Forestry Policy and Planning Division, Rome
Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, Bangkok

November 1997

The Asia-Pacific Forestry Sector Outlook Study is being undertaken under the auspices of the Asia-Pacific Forestry Commission.

This report comes under Workplan Number C16.

This electronic document has been scanned using optical character recognition (OCR) software and careful manual recorrection. Even if the quality of digitalisation is high, the FAO declines all responsibility for any discrepancies that may exist between the present document and its original printed version.


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INFORMATION NOTE ON ASIA-PACIFIC FORESTRY SECTOR OUTLOOK STUDY

1. CURRENT ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS

1.1. Vietnam: the country and its population
1.2. Economic aspects

2. HIGHLIGHTS OF LONG-TERM OBJECTIVES AND GOALS IN VIETNAM

2.1. Long-Term Objectives/or Economic Development in Vietnam

Towards the year 2000
Toward the year 2010

2.2. Development objectives of the Forestry Sector towards the year 2010

3. ROLE OF VIETNAM IN A REGIONAL CONTEXT

4. SUMMARY OF MAJOR ISSUES

5. FOREST RESOURCES

5.1. Forest and forest lands
5.2. Forest cover in various areas/regions of Vietnam
5.3. Changes in forest resources and prospects in the year 2010

6. ENVIRONMENTAL INITIATIVES, PROTECTED AREAS AND WILDLIFE RESOURCE CONSERVATION

6.1. Degradation of ecosystems and erosion of wildlife resources
6.2. The Vietnamese system of special-use forests

7. WOOD-BASED INDUSTRIES

7.1. Wood processing industries
7.2. Pulp and paper industries

8. WOOD ENERGY

9. NON-WOOD FOREST PRODUCTS

10. ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND POLICY MAKING AND STRENGTHENING

10.1. Organizational development
10.2. Policy making and strengthening

11. ASSESSMENT OF FUTURE SUPPLY AND DEMAND FOR FOREST PRODUCTS AND SERVICES

12. FUTURE DEVELOPMENT AND DEVELOPMENT OBJECTIVES

ANNEX - STRUCTURE OF THE MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT

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