Publications/Report
04/09/2025
Dear partners, donors, readers, and colleagues, The year 2024 continued to mark major global upheavals, including severe natural disasters driven by climate change, wars, political and trade conflicts, alongside environmental degradation and resource depletion. These events have impacted every aspect of human life, especially for vulnerable communities—not only slowing progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals […]
09/04/2024
First of all, I would like to send our warm greetings to our donors, partners, and all of the readers! The global picture of 2023 was defined by polycrises —depicted by the brutality of wars, the lingering aftermath of COVID-19, food insecurity, economic downturn and inflation, as well as climate change reaching alarm levels worldwide. […]
09/04/2023
Warm greetings to donors, partners and readers! The year 2022 was considered a year of “polycrisis” worldwide, with severe instabilities regarding the economy, energy, the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change. In Vietnam, the post-COVID-19 economic crisis, combined with the increasingly complex and erratic nature of natural disasters that caused numerous negative impacts on people’s lives, […]
10/10/2022
First of all, I would like to send our warm greetings to our donors, partners, and all of the readers! Center for Rural Development in Central Vietnam (CRD) has been established for 26 years and now we continue with the mission of research, training, technology transfer, and policy advocacy in the field of agriculture and […]
17/05/2021
Warm greetings to valued donors, partners and readers! We have gone through the year 2020 with challenges and uncertainties due to the epidemic and natural disasters. However, looking back at 2020, CRD has made every effort to effectively implement 12 projects in 8 provinces and cities including Quảng Bình, Quảng Trị, Thừa Thiên Huế, Đà […]
25/08/2020
Dear partners, donors, readers, and colleagues, The Centre for Rural Development in Central Vietnam (CRD), affiliated with the University of Agriculture and Forestry, Hue University, was established in 1995 with the mission of serving agricultural and rural development, primarily in the Central provinces. Over the past 24 years, CRD has operated actively, continuously innovated and […]
16/03/2020
Three technical handbooks on the process of (1) organic Ra Du wet rice cultivation, (2) Homalomena occulta L. cultivation under forest canopy, and (3) beef cattle semi-intensive farming were compiled by: MSc. Phan Van Hung Center for Rural Development in Central Vietnam (CRD) Dr. Trinh Thi Sen Department of Agronomy, University of Agriculture and Forestry, […]
06/01/2020
Introduction The handbook “Talking with Children and Children Protection” was developed by the Center for Rural Development in Central Vietnam (CRD), Hue University of Agriculture and Forestry within the framework of the project “Strengthening the capacity of society civil organizations on child rights governance” funded by Save the Children International in Vietnam. The handbook was […]
17/10/2019
Stories of hope and resilience from forest communities around the world Due to the growing realisation that deforestation affects us all, five years ago a coalition of governments, businesses, civil society organisations and Indigenous Peoples’ groups made a historic pledge to halve deforestation by 2020. Yet this goal is nowhere near being realised. In fact, […]
02/10/2019
Dear partners, donors, readers, and colleagues, The Centre for Rural Development in Central Vietnam (CRD), affiliated with the University of Agriculture and Forestry, Hue University, was established in 1995. CRD operates across various fields, including: Sustainable Livelihoods and Agriculture; Natural Resource and Environmental Management; Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management and an Affective Local Governance […]
30/07/2019
This document proposes the process of establishing a network of local civil society organizations (VPA local network – VPAL), standard operating procedures to help related organizations perform their responsibilities thus effectively support local wood SMEs and IHBs during the CRD-CED-COPE 1 implementation of VPA/FLEGT as well as maintaining a sustainable network. Specifically, this document helps: […]
30/07/2019
Rapid assessment report on capacity building needs of stakeholders at provincial level to support enterprises in their compliance with the legality definition, Vietnam timber legality assurance system and organization classification system. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT The survey on SMEs’ ability to meet timber legality requirements and the rapid assessment report on technical capacity building needs of stakeholders at […]