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CRAFS was awarded a two-year grant for EUR 350,000 from the Irish Research Council (IRC) for the project: “Resilience at the margins: Climate risk mapping and spatial decision support systems for strengthening the climate change resilience of the furthest behind in rural communities in Viet Nam”.
Prof. Charles Spillane, Principal Investigator and NUI Galway team leader, and Dr. Bui Le Vinh, Co-PI and CRAFS team leader from VNUA on a weekly research group meeting.
Vietnam is an Irish Aid partner country under major threat of climate change. While major advances in poverty reduction have been achieved in Vietnam, there are cohorts of rural societies that remain marginalized and economically vulnerable, whose situation could be further aggravated by negative impacts of climate change. These include poor and peripheral rural households, ethnic minorities, female-headed households and households with disability. There is a need to develop evidence-based decision support systems for targeting of climate resilience strengthening measures (including climate resilient/smart agricultural techniques and innovations, i.e. CSA/CRA) to the most marginalized households in Vietnam. We will develop climate risk mapping and geospatial decision support systems for policy scenario-based integration of CSA/CRA practices for climate resilience and poverty reduction in Phase II of the National Target Program for New Rural Development (Nong Thon Moi Program, 2021-2025) in Vietnam. The project will focus on one of the most climate vulnerable agroecological zones with different biophysical, agroecological and socio-economic characteristics in Vietnam’s Northern Mountain Region (NMR) spanning nearly 2,300 communes (composed of villages) with pilot research sites in Yen Bai province. The project builds on the existing research partnership between NUI Galway and VNUA, working closely with CIAT/CCAFS and other Vietnam based institutions.
The project will develop a spatial decision support system (SDSS) for targeting CSA/CRA to marginalized groups (ethnic minorities, female headed households, households with disability) to strengthen the climate resilience and gender empowerment status of such households, while using participatory action research approaches (e.g photovoice) and policy scenario analyses to integrate the SDSS into national and provincial programmes for poverty reduction and strengthening climate change resilience in rural areas of Vietnam. The project will engage strongly with policy stakeholders (policymakers, implementers, government and non-government) along the policy-implementation value chain at different scales (village, commune, district, province, national).
Climate-Resilient AgriFood Systems (CRAFS) is an interdisciplinary research group which consists of competent lecturers and researchers from Vietnam National University of Agriculture (VNUA) and scientists from national and international research institutions. CRAFS conducts inter-sectoral and interdisciplinary research activities for contributing to Vietnam’s agricultural development under the changing climate. The team combines research from different fields to contribute to enhancement of sustainable and safe agrifood systems and adaptive capacity and resilience to climate impacts that the country is being faced with.
Nong Huu Duong, Climate-Resilient AgriFood Systems (CRAFS) research group