19 May 2012, Back Kan, Viet Nam - A farmer planting an acacia seedling as part of an afforestion effort. Acacia seedlings are grown within six months in the nursery before being sold for planting in the forest. Once planted, it takes five years before being cut and converted to lumber for construction and manufacture of furniture.
National Forest Assessment (NFA) Project: GCP/CLO/194/MUL FIN-VN - The objective of the assignment is to provide support to the implementation of the FAO Finland Forestry Programme/National Forest Assessment (NFA) project in Viet Nam, in order to obtain improvements in the quality and scope of socio-economic (SE) data and information to be collected within the next National Forest Inventory, Monitoring and Assessment Programme (NFIMAP), and serving better the national forest related socio-economic information needs for national and international decision making and reporting.