04 March 2016
The United Nations Collaborative Programme on REDD+ (UN-REDD Programme) is a collaborative programme implemented with the partner countries and the UN agencies of FAO, UNDP and UNEP. The UN-REDD Programme of Viet Nam is in its second phase and builds...
26 February 2016
Rabies is a zoonotic disease that has long impacted human and animals with increasing incidence for the last ten years in Viet Nam. The Ministry of Health recorded about 400,000 people seek for rabies vaccine due to dog bites per...
26 February 2016
Involving ethnic minority groups for rabies prevention and elimination
Ethnic minority groups (EMG) in Viet Nam are considered as one of the most vulnerable population groups to rabies accounting for about 41% of total human death cases during the last five...
An important FAO-supported rural development project (GCP/RAS/281/FRA) funded by the French Development Agency (AFD) in Viet Nam will establish an operational system to control three geographical indications of two key products.
The specialities - Van Yen cinnamon and Moc...
26 Jan 2016 – Infectious agents do not respect country boundaries, especially viruses that easily adapt to their surrounding environments and sometimes gain the ability to cause severe diseases in animals and humans. For these reasons, it is critical for...