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AVRDC-ARC - Human Resource Development Project for the Mekong Region and China

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Coordinating organisation: The World Vegetable Center
Description: The Goal is to increase income from vegetable production and consumption of vegetables by farming households in upland and remote areas of Vietnam, Lao PDR and Cambodia. The project will operate in the domain of training, research and extension, and will employ problem-solving approaches to improving vegetable production and services provided to the grassroots level. The project beneficiaries will include: poor farmers and consumers in upland and remote rural areas of Vietnam, Lao PDR and Cambodia; and researchers, extension staff and lead farmers who will benefit from training, technical support and better knowledge. Information and knowledge sharing and electronic networking among countries and NARS will be improved. Co-ordination with other on-going project and the private sector will be enhanced and management capacities of the national partner institutions strengthened. The project will strengthen its internal monitoring. An Impact Assessment Study will be carried out in 2006.
Budget (in &euro): 1587184
Start: 2003-04-01
End: 2007-12-31
Categories
ARD-theme: cropping/cultivation systems
vegetable growing
Target country: Cambodia
Laos
Vietnam
Commodity: vegetables
Ecosystem: humid
tropical
Activity: training
research
extension
networking
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Donor organisations: 1
Programmes funding: 1


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